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Title

Bessie and Nadine

Artist

Catherine Angel

Physical Description

Two girls cuddled in a hole surrounded by dirt.

Object Creation Date

2000; printed 2005

Accession Number

2013/2.87

Medium and Support

toned gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 16.23643

Primary Keywords

african american

girls

Title

Elegy #6

Artist

Sam Gilliam

Artist Life Dates

born 1933

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1980

Accession Number

1981/2.189

Medium and Support

hand-made paper piece on paper

relevance

rank 16.05793

Primary Keywords

african american

figures

portraits

Title

New York in Transit II

Artist

Jacob Lawrence

Artist Life Dates

1917 - 2000

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1998

Accession Number

2000/2.128

Medium and Support

screenprint on paper

relevance

rank 16.05793

Primary Keywords

african american

bust-length

Title

Untitled (I am an invisible man...), from Four Etchings

Artist

Glenn Ligon

Physical Description

Stencilled black letters on black background.

Artist Life Dates

born 1960

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1992

Accession Number

1993/2.13.3

Medium and Support

softground etching, aquatint, spitbite, and sugarlift aquatint on Fabriano Muril

relevance

rank 15.71243

Primary Keywords

african american

appropriation

literature (writings)

text

Title

Untitled, Vicksburg, MS

Artist

Baldwin Lee

Artist Life Dates

born 1951

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1983

Accession Number

1992/1.137

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 15.71243

Primary Keywords

african american

child

father

figures

house

Title

Harlem

Artist

Leonard Freed

Physical Description

Boy with arm raised, bent at elbow, sweat on face.

Object Creation Date

1963; printed circa 1990

Accession Number

2013/2.140

Medium and Support

toned gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 15.71243

Primary Keywords

african american

eye-level views

offspring

Title

Dotty Wotty 1

Artist

Tyree Guyton

Artist Life Dates

born 8/24/1955

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1994

Accession Number

1995/1.50

Medium and Support

sugarlift on paper

relevance

rank 15.71243

Primary Keywords

abstraction

african american

car

figures

house

Title

Untitled (I am an invisible man...), from Four Etchings

Artist

Glenn Ligon

Physical Description

Stencilled black letters on black background.

Artist Life Dates

born 1960

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1992

Accession Number

1993/2.13.4

Medium and Support

softground etching, aquatint, spitbite, and sugarlift aquatint on Fabriano Muril

relevance

rank 15.71243

Primary Keywords

african american

appropriation

literature (writings)

text

Title

Untitled (I do not always feel colored...), from Four Etchings

Artist

Glenn Ligon

Physical Description

Stencilled black capital letters on white background.

Artist Life Dates

born 1960

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1992

Accession Number

1993/2.13.2

Medium and Support

softground etching, aquatint, spitbite, and sugarlift aquatint on white Rives BF

relevance

rank 15.54520

Primary Keywords

african american

children

figures

literature (humanities)

text

Title

Untitled (I feel most colored...), from Four Etchings

Artist

Glenn Ligon

Physical Description

Stencilled black capital letters on white background.

Artist Life Dates

born 1960

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1992

Accession Number

1993/2.13.1

Medium and Support

softground etching, aquatint, spitbite, and sugarlift aquatint on white Rives BF

relevance

rank 15.38149

Primary Keywords

african american

appropriation

literature (writings)

stencils (images)

text

Title

Model

Artist

James Van Der Zee

Artist Life Dates

1886-1983

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1927

Accession Number

1975/2.98

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 15.38149

Primary Keywords

african american

entertainers

figures

lingerie

necklace

standing

stools

Title

Nude in Water

Artist

Rutger ten Broken

Artist Life Dates

born 1944

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1983

Accession Number

1995/1.45

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 15.22120

Primary Keywords

african american

figures

half-length

lakes

nudes

portraits

women

Title

Country Portrait -- Green

Artist

Lester Johnson

Physical Description

Bust-length portrait of figure in black on green background using thickly applied paint.

Artist Life Dates

1919 - 2010

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1963

Accession Number

1978/2.141

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 15.22120

Primary Keywords

abstract

african american

bust-length

figure (representation)

figures

portraits

Title

After Manet, from May Days Long Forgotten

Artist

Carrie Mae Weems

Physical Description

Black and white photograph in circular format depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1953

Century

21st century

Object Creation Date

2002

Accession Number

2004/2.3

Medium and Support

chromogenic color print on paper

relevance

rank 15.06421

Primary Keywords

african american

appropriation

figures (representations)

girls

grass (plant material)

photographs

Title

verso: sketch of airplanes (?) [upside down in relation to image on recto]

Artist

Jacob Lawrence

Physical Description

Eight abstracted figures (three kneeling in front and five standing in back) wearing orange tank tops and white shorts face the viewer; two basketballs and five trophies between figures in the foreground. Figures stand in front of a background of fragmented, arched and circular areas of color in blues and golds.

Artist Life Dates

1917 - 2000

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1953

Accession Number

1997/1.530

Medium and Support

tempera over black colored pencil on wood board

relevance

rank 13.78485

Primary Keywords

abstract

abstraction

african american

basketball

basketballs

figures

figures (representations)

groups

kneeling

standing

trophies (prizes)

trophy

Title

Manet's Olympia

Artist

Mel Ramos

Physical Description

A female nude reclining on a bed wearing one yellow slipper on her left foot, a gold bracelet on her right arm and a black ribbon tied in a bow around her neck. An African American woman in a blue dress stands behind her holding a bouquet of yellow and white flowers. A small monkey sits at the foot of the bed. All subjects look directly at the viewer.

Artist Life Dates

born 1935

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1974

Accession Number

1991/2.102.1

Medium and Support

collotype on wove paper

relevance

rank 13.29946

Primary Keywords

african american

appropriation

baby

beauty

eroticism

figures

figures (representations)

flowers (plants)

lovers

monkeys

nudes

pop art

portraits

prostitutes

realism

women

Title

Ups and Downs

Artist

Tyree Guyton

Physical Description

Two abstracted bust-length figures, one male and one female, look directly at the viewer with large smiles against a tan background filled with swirling lines and scribbles. The face and eyes of each figure are outlined in thick green, the mouths in thick yellow. The “whites” of the eyes are red, while the pupils are circles of pale purple. From the eyes of the male figure, purple paint drips down his checks; in the female figure, the paint drips upwards.

Artist Life Dates

born 8/24/1955

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1994

Accession Number

2002/1.202

Medium and Support

acrylic on masonite

relevance

rank 13.23012

Primary Keywords

abstract

african american

figures

figures (representations)

folk art

men

outsider art

women

Title

Colored

Artist

Betye Saar

Physical Description

Assemblage of found objects: salvaged wood frame, four portrait photographs of African American females, nine thread samples, and one hand mirror hanging on a decorative brass hook to the viewer's right of the frame.

Artist Life Dates

born 1926

Century

21st century

Object Creation Date

2002

Accession Number

2003/1.406

Medium and Support

mixed media assemblage with hand mirror

relevance

rank 13.05517

Primary Keywords

african american

assemblage (sculpture technique)

assemblages (sculpture)

black-and-white photographs

found objects

photographs

portrait photography

vintage prints

women