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A work made of handmade book with ten color lithographs on ivory wove paper.

Memories of Childhood, 1999

Roger Shimomura

Print rendered in visible uniform lines of a 2/3 bust view of a dark-skinned mature woman looking to her left in a wide brim hat, a safety pin securing her black jacket. Her face and neck is a rich brown hue, while the rest of the portrait is rendered in black and white.

Sharecropper, 1952, printed 1970

Elizabeth Catlett

Photograph of a two-story house painted bright red, including the door, boarded windows, and porch posts, with only a small patch of blue above a window. The pitched roof is black. The house is set in the left side of the photograph, empty lots around it.

Color(ed) Theory: Flamin' Red Hots, 2014-15

Amanda Williams

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Polychrome Jar, c. 1920

Isabel Medina Toribio (Aitiye')

A work made of glazed steatite.

Amulet of Thoth, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Pedestal Bowl Depicting an Anthropomorphic Saurian Figure, 1100–1300

Coclé

Three-part bronze sculpture set of two clenched hands and a man's face with closed eyes and mouth, an object in one hand.

Life Cast of the Hands and Face of Abraham Lincoln, Cast in plaster 1860; cast in bronze by 1888

Leonard Wells Volk

A carving in tan-and-white stone of the upper body of a pharaoh wearing an elaborate headdress.

Facade Panel from the National Pythian Temple, Chicago, Illinois, c. 1927 (demolished 1980)

Walter T. Bailey

A work made of double sided, cotton and polyester, plain weaves, some printed, some fulled; pieced; polyester batting, quilted with cotton and polyester thread.

"Pinwheel" Quilt, c. 1975

Allie Pettway

A work made of ballpoint pen, felt-tip pen, pastel, graphite pencil, and colored pencil on cream wove paper.

Workbook B, 1972

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of ballpoint pen, felt-tip pen, pastel, graphite pencil, and colored pencil on cream wove paper.

Workbook A, 1972

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of ballpoint pen, felt-tip pen, pastel, graphite pencil, and colored pencil on cream wove paper.

Workbook D, 1972

Joseph Yoakum

Close-up view of the face of a medium brown–skinned man cupping his chin in his hand, his eyes closed. The brushstrokes are visible and his features are somewhat exaggerated and disproportionate. He is set against a light green background.

Barack, 2020

Jordan Casteel

A work made of slip-decorated earthenware.

Beer Vessel (Chomo), c. 1960s

Shipibo

A work made of box construction.

The Eagle, the Arrow, and the Dolphin, c. 1960

Joseph Cornell

A work made of oil on panel.

Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, 1658

Adriaen van der Spelt

A work made of oil on masonite.

Desert Forms, 1957

Hughie Lee-Smith

A work made of schist.

Jaina Tirthankara Chandraprabha Standing in Meditation (Kayotsarga), 12th century

A colorful wedding scene with a dark-skinned bride in red and a groom in black at center, their backs to the viewer. A minister cloaked in black stands between them, a dense wall of flowers or perhaps a floral pattern behind him. The group is flanked by two figures and panels of geometric stained glass.

The Wedding, 1948

Jacob Lawrence

A light-skinned woman with lightish hair pulled back stands in partial profile, wearing an oversized wrap-around sweater with bell sleeves and a geometric print, hands together. She looks seriously at the viewer.

Gundvor Berg in Her Studio, 1926

André Kertész

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