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Themes in Art
Black Subjects
A Black Woman
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, 1884
A Soul
Benny Andrews, 1974
African American and White Soldiers aboard A Ship
Gordon Parks, 1941
Allegories of Four Continents, Africa
Rosalba Carriera, 1712
Aspiration
Aaron Douglas, 1936
Blind Singer
William H. Johnson, 1940
Blood (Donald Formey)
Barkley L. Hendricks, 1975
Busy Town
Henry Tayali, 1970
Captivity and Resistance
Romare Bearden, 1976
Children
William H. Johnson, 1941
Chronomonde
Bodo, 2000
Cocktails
Archibald Motley, 1926
Condemnation without Trial
Chéri Samba, 1989 – 1990
Cousin, Suzie Porter, New York City
James Van Der Zee, 1914
Defiance, from The Emperor Jones series
Aaron Douglas, 1926
Face of a Nubian Girl
Tahia Halim, 1975
Falling Star
Romare Bearden, 1979
Five Women
Alex Katz, 1977
Flight, from The Emperor Jones series
Aaron Douglas, 1926
Four Friends
Laura Wheeler Waring, 1940
Gamin
Augusta Savage, 1929
Garveyite Family, Harlem
James Van Der Zee, 1924
General Moses (Harriet Tubman)
Charles White, 1965
Golden Brush of Africa
Bodo, 2010
Harriet
Elizabeth Catlett, 1975
Harvest Talk
Charles White, 1953
Head of a Woman (Princess)
Claude Clark, 1960
Head of an African
Albrecht Dürer, 1508
Homesteaders
William H. Johnson, 1942
I love color
Chéri Samba, 2010
I'm not enlightened, I'm not clear
Chéri Samba, 2013
In Sojourner Truth I fought for the rights of women as well as Negroes
Elizabeth Catlett, 1947
Juan de Pareja
Diego Velázquez, 1650
Kate and Rachel Van Der Zee, Lenox, Mass.
James Van Der Zee, 1907
Lawdy Mama
Barkley L. Hendricks, 1969
Mama’s Knee
Romare Bearden, 1971
Negra
Tarsila do Amaral, 1923
Negritude
Ben Enwonwu, 1978
Nkrumah
Uzo Egonu, 1962
No More Games
Benny Andrews, 1970
North Philly Niggah (William Corbett)
Barkley L. Hendricks, 1975
Nous Quatre a Paris
Palmer Hayden, 1930
Photo Bloke
Barkley L. Hendricks, 2016
Photographers from the Negro press
Gordon Parks, 1942
Portrait of a Collagist
Benny Andrews, 1989
Portrait of Marian Anderson
Laura Wheeler Waring, 1944
Sharecropper
Elizabeth Catlett, 1952
Sir Nelson. Solid!
Barkley L. Hendricks, 1970
Sound of Silence
Charles White, 1978
Sound of Silence
Charles White, 1978
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