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A square-shape textile with a dual multicolor border features a painted five-by-four grid of images with the repeated face of a Black woman with short hair, Bessie Smith. Her face appears blue in each instance, while the outline of her facial features, her hair, and clothing alternate colors in varying shades of yellow and orange. The background of each square likewise alternates between shades of blue and green, some with an influx of red.

American Collection #5: Bessie's Blues, January 19, 1997

Faith Ringgold

A work made of oil on canvas.

Time Unveiling Truth, 1740–45

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni

A work made of pastel, over etching, aquatint, drypoint, and crayon électrique on tan wove paper.

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery, 1885

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Bathers, 1884

William Adolphe Bouguereau

A work made of graphite on paper.

Two Women Bathing, early 20th century

Hashiguchi Goyô

A work made of oil on panel.

An Elegant Company, 1632

Pieter Codde

A work made of brush and black ink on ivory laid paper.

Three Women Beneath a Tree, 1936

Diego Rivera

A work made of woodcut in black, over monotype in green-blue, yellow, and pink opaque watercolor on gray wove paper.

Two Seated Women, 1912

Erich Heckel

A work made of zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper.

Les drames de la mer: Bretagne (Dramas of the Sea: Brittany), from the Volpini Suite, 1889

Paul Gauguin

A woman with dark brown skin and an afro reclines on a patterned yellow couch, her legs crossed in the foreground. She wears hoop earrings, a loose purple top, and yellow eyeshadow.

Can't We Just Sit Down and Talk it Over?, 2006–07

Mickalene Thomas

A work made of oil on panel.

The Capture of Samson, 1609–10

Peter Paul Rubens

Wooden sculpture of seated king surrounded by family.

Veranda Post (Òpó Ògògá), 1910-14

Olowe of Ise

A work made of variable media.

Prentice Women's Hospital, 1962/94

Bertrand Goldberg

Black and white photograph, two older women, in suits and hats, smoking, at diner table.

Two Ladies at the Automat (New York City), 1966, printed 1977

Diane Arbus

A work made of soft ground etching with foul biting in black on ivory wove paper.

Two Women Drying Themselves, 1895

Suzanne Valadon

A work made of soft ground etching and aquatint in black on cream wove paper.

Under the Lamp, c. 1882

Mary Cassatt

A work made of opaque watercolor on paper.

Royal Women Feeding Fish, c. 1740

A work made of black, red, and white chalk on gray-brown laid paper.

Three Studies of Seated Women, c. 1715

Jean Antoine Watteau

A work made of woodcut on off-white paper.

Farmer II, 1971

Stefan Suberlak

A work made of bronze.

Girl with Arm over Her Eyes, 1900

Aristide Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol

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