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Vibrantly colored abstract painting suggesting a landscape and trees, with irregular outlined sections of green, yellow, orange, pink, and bright red.

Landscape (recto), 1911–12

Marguerite Zorach

A work made of bakelite, brush-burnished silver, chrome, and enamel.

Clock, 1928–29

Paul Theodore Frankl

Tall black painted wooden cabinet, white trim, shape of skyscraper.

"Skyscraper" Cabinet, c. 1927

Paul Theodore Frankl

A work made of oil on canvas.

Summer (recto), 1913

William Zorach

A work made of nickel-plated copper alloy.

Salt (one of a pair), c. 1928

Ilonka Karasz

A work made of platinum with white and yellow diamonds.

Pair of Dress Clips, c. 1930

Artist unknown

Large black sculpture in the shape of Africa. The form is covered in gold chains, circular photographs or "medallions" depicting prominent African American figures, and other images and text. The sculpture hangs on a white wall. "

Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra), 2003-ongoing

Kerry James Marshall

A wooden carving of a male figure. The figure has a distinctive face, with oval-shaped eyes and mouth, and wears a cap on his head. His body is covered in various shells, bones, feathers, fabric, and metal nails, and he holds a mirror-sealed resin packet over his stomach.

Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi), Probably early to mid-19th century

Vili

Chrome statue of featureless robbed woman holding grain stalks and a pouch.

Ceres, 1928

John Bradley Storrs

A work made of bronze.

Woman Leaning on Her Hands, 1905, cast c. 1930

Henri Matisse

A work made of oil on canvas.

Caos-Caos, 1950

Wifredo Lam

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Malcolm X Holding up Black Muslim Newspaper, Los Angeles, California, May 8, 1963

Gordon Parks

A work made of oil with smoke on cardboard laid down on wood.

L'autophage (Fulgurites), 1938

Wolfgang Paalen

A work made of oil on canvas.

Psychological Morphology, 1938

Matta

Painting of an Indigenous woman native to Mexico bent and seated on a brown floor, using red thread to create a geometric design on a backstrap loom. Earth tones dominate, while a dresser in the background and the bottom portion of the woman's white dress are a deep blue.

Weaving, 1936

Diego Rivera

A work made of color lithograph on tan wove paper.

Jane Avril, 1899

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A work made of oil on panel.

Portrait of Emmanuel Rio, 1836

Albert Schindler

An off-white spiral shell, subtly shaded in pink, gray, and yellow, dominates the image, filling most of it. A red mountain rises in the background.

White Shell with Red, 1938

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of bronze.

Small Crouching Nude without an Arm, 1908, cast 1909

Henri Matisse

A work made of bronze.

Thorn Extractor, 1906, cast 1953

Henri Matisse

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