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Part of: Telling Stories: The Rhetoric and Representation of Race and Ethnicity (22 resources )
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Telling Stories: The Rhetoric and Representation of Race and Ethnicity


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22 Items in this Learning Collection
Manet's Olympia
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.
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Untitled, Vicksburg, MS

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Untitled, Columbia, SC

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Untitled, Monroe, LA

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Margarita de Bonampak, from "Manuel Alvarez Bravo"

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Court Activities, Charleston

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Ah Puch
Bust of a figure from the chest up in three-quarters pose. The head, or perhaps a mask, is white, resembling a skull with a halo of white hair. The neck is dark brown with two white bands like chokers around it, perhaps securing the mask. The figure wears a dark red garment that is trimmed in ornate lace in white and gold. The background is a deep teal green-blue.
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Colored
An assemblage of found objects: a salvaged wood frame with wood inlay letters spelling &quot;COLORED,&quot; four portrait photographs of African American females (two photogaphs on either side of a printed poem), nine thread samples under photographs, and one hand mirror hanging on a decorative brass hook to the viewer&#39;s right of the frame. The poem reads:&nbsp;<br /> &quot;Light is Alright<br /> Yellow is Mellow<br /> Brown, Stick Around<br /> Black, Get Back<br /> (but black don&#39;t crack)&quot;<br /> <br /> The wood has a strong smell, may have been treated with molasses.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;
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After Manet
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
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Untitled
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Chasing a Slaver
Ship chasing another ship. Shore on the right hand side of the painting.
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Joseph the Carpenter
This print shows a shipyard, with three laborers working on the hull of a large boat under a dark sky.
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Paris #206
Photo of a woman in a floor-length and brightly striped formal gown standing in a multi-level staircase. The photo is taken from above and captures the woman, her companion, and the ornate handrail and stair runner.
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Seven Kiowah Men

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David Chun - Chinese Shrimp Camp
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Salome (John the Baptist)
Four people are gathered around a white table in the foreground. A nude woman on the right holds the head of a man on a gray platter. The man&#39;s body is in the bottom right corner of the print with a red trail at the neck. Across from the woman is a man in a red garmet with black and yellow stripes, and a tan cap with a red and blue stripe. Across the table are two other figures and in the background to the right stand two men in blue, much smaller than the figures around the table.
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New York in Transit I
In this long horizontally oriented print, we see multiple people of various colors on a subway car; some sit and others stand holding onto subway poles. Windows show various scenes- a plane in the sky, men playing basketball, fish, musicians, and a small group of people walking with a flag. 
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Day of All Dead

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Póvi-Támuⁿ ("Flower Morning") - San Ildefonso
This is a portrait of a young woman against a plain, dark backdrop. She wears a draped cloth garment, strands of beadwork looped around her neck. Her hair is cut in a short style with blunt, thick bangs covering her forehead. 
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Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
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English 125-062

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Klara Loc-Ling Boger
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 12:55 p.m.

15 Items in this Learning Collection
A Lie
This is a line drawing done in colors of red, orange, blue, yellow, brown and green, on white paper. In the top center portion of the sheet are the words, "A LIE". Below this are forms that resemble an egg, a slice of bacon, a piece of bread with a pat of yellow butter. Below these forms are some round shapes, labeled "flakes", a bowl and a carton of milk, labeled "milk".
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Line A-C
This mixed media collage consists of a long skein of yarn of varying colors attached at point A at the top of the print, creating a jumbled mass of yarn below and exiting at point C, also at the top of the canvas.
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Hiroshima Series

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Urban Daydream II
This print is a colorful image of a sink filled with green water. At the center, there is a miniature boat that floats in the water. On the counter-space of the sink at the back, there sits various toiletries such as mouthwash, perfume, toothbrushes, and a razor. Almost out of the frame, a red washcloth hangs off the left edge of the sink. The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "AP 24/75" in pencil.
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Marilyn Monroe
Bust-length portrait of Marilyn Monroe positioned in front of a red background; Haring used a poster of the actress onto which he applied sumi ink in a series of outlines, marks and drips over the face, neck, chest and shoulders.
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Before the Mirror

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Felix, Gladys and Rover, New York City, from "Master Prints Volume I"

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Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
This print shows a landscape with a mountain rising in the middle of the background. There are trees and grass in front, and a body of water in the foreground. At the center, on the edge of the water, sits a faucet, a razor, and a toothbrush in a clear glass as if the body of water is a sink.<br /> The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "197/275" in pencil.
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Figure and Squares, Toronto, Canada, from "Society's Man"

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Jessica, 13, orders a nonalcoholic drink at a party, Beverly Hills
A photograph of a young girl ordering a drink at a bar. She holds her arm up, revealing a watch, and wears sunglasses on her head. A large red drink sits in the foreground on the bar and a neon sign hangs in the background.
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After Manet
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
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Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?
This multi-colored photolithograph has an image of Minnie Mouse at the left center surrounded by a variety of geometric shapes and lines. Minnie Mouse's body is made up of dots. Below the figure, there is small, blurry text that reads "April 12, 1945." 
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Stravinsky
A series of ink dots, placed over six staffs of music notation, form a pair of spectacles, an eye, a nose, and lips.
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Untitled
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.
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IRL

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May 25, 2022 12:55 p.m.

80 Items in this Learning Collection
Dark Presence III
An assemblage of wooden boxes painted black. The boxes are mounted on top of each other and each box contains carved pieces of wood in various shapes.&nbsp;
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A Monument in Rouen

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Unity no. 41
Large abstract painting with an orange border that fades to purple and then becomes bright aqua-blue at the center.
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Vase
irridescent blue vase with large mouth and large flared foot
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Trefoil vase
Vessel with trefoil, or three-lobed, shape of transparent blue glass with an intricate plant-motif decoration and gold accents. <br />
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Narrow-necked vase with crackled celadon glaze

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Phelps
Pulpy paper adhered to a canvas. The paper is painted in hues of blue, pink, red, green, and yellow. Overlapping designs are stamped into the paper and a partial shape of a heart is spray-painted red in the center.&nbsp;
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Begin the Beguine
<p>Interior composition with male and female dancers positioned at center with seated female at lower left, standing male on crutches at right and a group of birds in the leftmost background.</p>
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Charity (La Charité)
Painting of a woman holding two sleeping nude babies, wearing white fabric draped over her head and shoulders with abundant blue-green fabric wrapped and loosely gathered around the rest of her body standing in front of a lush background with areas of blue sky peaking through the foliage.
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Untitled
Two sets of concentric arcs of bright colors radiate toward one another from the lower left corner and the upper right corner.
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Beach Accident, Coney Island, New York
Aerial view of a beach on which a swimming accident has occurred. A group of people swarm to the central location and focal point of the photograph, where the injured person lies.
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Alber's Chain
Multi-colored fabric pieces hung loosely together in a horizontal format. Colors include red, orange, blue, green, black, purple, pink and various other combinations of these colors.
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Pieced quilt in variable star pattern with saw-tooth border

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What We All Lack (Ce qui manque à nous tous)
A clear glass bubble rests on the bowl of a plain white clay pipe. Along the stem of the pipe are the words, "Ce que [sic] manque à nous tous."
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Ice House
A small urban house is seen in a nocturnal view set in winter. The house is covered with icicles hang from the gables and over the first floor windows and door. There is no illumination from inside the house, although there are lights in adjacet houses; the house is illuminated by a cool white light that, along with the house, illuminates the chain-link fence to the right and the trees flanking the house.
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Yellow Meander
This work is a square, abstract composition with thick, overlapping yellow and gray lines in a labyrinthine pattern. The print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Anni Albers 1970." and titled and numbered (l.l.) "Yellow Meander 51/75" in pencil.
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October
This abstract color lithograph is made up of swirling lines and patterns of white, black, orange, pink and green inks. These forms make up an all-over image and appear similar to splatters or drips of ink. The print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Tobey 1970" and editioned (l.l.) "19/200" in pencil.
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Untitled, from "The New York Collection for Stockholm: 30 Artists"
A print of a man posing juxtaposed with a black and white geometric design in the lower right hand corner. The man is printed in red ink. <br /><br /> EC 2017
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Self-Portrait
This photograph depicts a window of a house with the photographer’s reflection cast in it. Also visible in the reflection are the white picket fence and trees behind the photographer, as well as objects inside the interior of the house.
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If Nothing Changes, It Changes Nothing (Sweater)
Long sleeve knit sweater, navy blue on top and red on bottom with red and white striped cuffs on the sleeves. There is a pattern of white stars on the front of the sweater, along with the words IF NOTHING CHANGES outlined in white. The back of the sweater also has a pattern of white stars along with the words 2008 IT CHANGES NOTHING outlined in white.
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Shallow bowl with floral arabesque pattern

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The Wonderfulness of Downtown
An image of a drawn map of New York City featuring a compass, three ships, and a person in armor with a photographed face collaged on top of it. Photographs depicting New York City landscapes are collaged across the map.
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One of a Pair of Casement Windows from the Darwin Martin House, Buffalo, NY
One of a pair of windows with a highly regular, rectilinear, although asymetric, design in both clear and colored glass. Window has an oak frame. Window design consists of vertical and horizontal bands of green and amber colorerd glass at top and bottom of window; along one side are colored squares of glass; along the other is a chevron-shaped column of glass. The overall effect is of colored pieces of glass suspended within a clear window subdivided by abstract bands and patterns of lead caming.
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Girl in Green Wind (large)
A girl with her head and body in profile with her head streached in front of her body and hair flowing behind her. Her black hair is outlined with blue and is used to show texture. Her clothing is black, green, and yellow. Behind her is a an overlapping of sunflowers.
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Rice Cake Mold
A small glazed porcelain piece resembling a cake stand. The top is detailed with a carved pattern that would imprint the rice cake being molded on it.<br /> <br /> Rice cake stamps are used to impress designs upon rice cakes. They are generally made of wood or ceramic. Ceramic rice cake stamps normally come in the form of round stamps and consist of a patterned surface and a handle. Patterns, carved or raised, on the stamp vary from geometric lines to auspicious designs that wish for prosperity and longevity. Their small size makes them highly portable, while their simple yet contemporary designs have mad them popular among collectors. The University of Michigan Museum of Art collection includes nine white porcelain rice cake stamps. Some are gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Hasenkamp, and others are gifts from Ok Ja Chang and the Chang family.<br /> <br /> Glaze has been removed from the foot rim, on which fine sand spur marks remain.<br /> <br /> [Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014)
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Deeda Blair
A photograph of the back of a woman wearing a dark dress with a floral pattern.
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Small White Square (Wedding Dress)
This is a square shaped print in tones of white, beige and brown. It shows a lacy floral pattern with white dots that resemble pearls.
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Construction #45
This is an abstract metallic sculpture with a black square base. The silver metal of the sculpture is little thicker than wire and forms two into intersecting circular shapes.
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Untitled
This sculpture consists of a red bird cage stand with a half-circle red cage on top. Inside the cage, there is a plastic green, yellow and red airplane toy hanging from the top. There is a white and black figure inside the plane. The work is signed by the artist in black paint at the base: "Tyree Guyton".
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Iridescent round ball corner ink well with lid
This is a clear glass inkwell with a dark metal lid. The body is composed of a large sphere balanced on three smaller spheres. It has a circular top with a flat lid.<br />
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Iridescent Glass Inkwell with purple-gray iridescent, gold ram head stopper
An iridescent glass inkwell with a gold lid. The base is purplish-gray while the lid has a ram's head engraved on it.
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Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California
This photograph depicts a view of a hilly landscape and a long fence that curves throughout the countryside and into the distance. The fence is made of steel cable and poles with a wall of white fabric hung throughout its length.  
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In a Catholic hospital in Koln, W. Germany 1963
An older woman lies in bed as a younger woman attaches tubing to her arm. A large metal canister is to her right, while a small bottle of clear liquid hangs from a metal pole on her left. Another young woman looks up at it.
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Cary Grant as a male war bride
This photolithographic print in pink, red, orange and yellow is made of four main parts. A series of patterns from stripes at the top to small to tiny polka dots at the bottom make up the background. The stripes are in all the colors of the print, where the dots are only in orange and red. At the top left, there are a series of fragments of geometric scenes. In the bottom left, in orange, red and yellow, there is a bird, likely a parakeet. Then to the right at the bottom, there are two photographs of white men. On the right, there is a photograph of an older man with one pair of prescription glasses on and a pair of sunglasses resting on his forehead with the text below that reads: "<em>Stravinsky: Restoration and adaptation</em> / librettos ('Moses und Aron,' 'Die Glückliche Hand,' 'Die Jacobsleiter,' 'Les Noces,' 'Renard'). / 9. Each of us worked with concreteness of sound, unlike the last Webern where choice of sound seems to be a final stage." On the left, there is a man in three-quarter view with sholder
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Black Nagoya-style obi with appliquéd pathces woven in varied designs
Black plain-weave satin with appliqued patches in abstract geometric shapes, with woven floral, geometric, and landscape designs.
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Miniature jar with cover, decorated with figures of boy acrobats
Miniature rounded jar with cover, decorated with blue figures of boy acrobats.
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Imperial Winter Dragon Robe

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Artichoke
A color photograph featuring an artichoke head in the center. The artichoke is mostly white and the rest of the image is blue.
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Where She Lives

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Ghada
Portrait of a middle-aged woman. She looks into the camera lens; her dark hijab disappears into the dark background. Persian calligraphy is inscribed subtly over her skin in ink.
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Angel
A color photograph with hues of blue and white featuring a figure with wings. The figure is encircled by white and appears to glow.
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The Seniors Project (24)
An image of a woman with short gray hair wearing a brown jacket, blue dress, and red hat sitting on an outdoor stone platform. In the background are four other people, speaking to each other.&nbsp;
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Untitled
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.
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Journey of Life (left of a pair)

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Blue and Red Hackers Ax
A red and blue painted object with matte and shiny finishes. A long wooden ax handle attached to a computer keyboard wrapped with a curly telephone cord towards the base of the handle.
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Kiva
An installation piece that consists of a television monitor on a stand with a closed-circuit camera mounted on top. The lens is pointed directly off the top of the monitor, but there are mirrors suspended from the ceiling that change the camera's perspective.
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Ark of Triumph

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Possum
A hairlike, lightbrown material on a wood board giving the appearance of an animal&#39;s face with protruding ears.&nbsp;
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Untitled
three aluminum-painted canvas panels joined in the back to form a square, with five inlays of Sculptmetal, zinc photographic plates and lead
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Handle with Care

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Visible Markers

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Erosion

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Untitled

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Michaela and Collin
This photograph is of two children in an enclosed porch. A young girl rests her head on a ledge, while a young boy stands behind her to the right, holding a toy bow and arrow close to her head.
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Winged Ones
Black and white image of a child looking out a window with white wings superimposed on her back and a white insect watching her.&nbsp;
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Untitled
A hexagonal canvas with multi-colored lines breaking the surface into three individual, identically-sized sections. Two of the sections are primarily green and one is primarily gray.&nbsp;
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Untitled
Strips of overlapping, multi-colored paper on a white background, the paper is blue, pink, purple, green, orange, and black.
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Fences

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Anton's Letter
A glass sculpture of a figure. The background is rectangular in shape and there is a man standing in front holding a sign. The pieces of metal are imbedded in the glass and have colors of blues, reds, blacks, purples and pinks.
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Safety Pin

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Napoleon Standing Next to Chair
This large, multi-media work shows two sketches of the well-known image of Napoleon with his righ hand tucked in his vest. The image on the left is just a sketch outlined in dark blue spray paint while on the right is a more detailed color rendering outlined in light blue. On the far right is a chair. The name “DAVID” is stenciled at bottom left of center. 
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Untitled, Sounding Sculpture

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Alice
Larger section of the background of piece. Orange in color and organic in shape.
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Cronopios
A purple omeba-shaped form that has mutli-colored circles and blue designs on top. It hangs on a wall on top of a vinyl rectangle that has similar designs.
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Black Excursion No. 13
Square, rectangular, and circular pieces of wood and formica are assembled in rectilinear, cabinet-like compartments. The entire object is painted black.
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Tarzana

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Notions

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Ueno Zoo
Stylized red lion on a blue background above the text &quot;UENO ZOO&quot; in white lettering.&nbsp;
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Kazumasa Nagai Design Life
Orange deer with purple spots, antlers, and articulated teeth on a yellow background.&nbsp;
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Close-up of Japan, London 1985
Geometric shapes creating the image of a samurai with a red and green robe on a yellow background. 
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Table, Notebook and Pencil
A curved wooden table with a red notebook and a pencil.
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La Fortaleza
A two-point perspective drawing of a big yellow building with red rooftop around the corner on the street.
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The Lord's Prayer, sheet 10 - For Thine Is the Kingdom (Das Vaterunser - Denn Dein ist das Reich)
A man, a woman, and a child facing the viewer with their hands folded in prayer. The man and woman sit on a mattress and look to heaven. The child stands in front of them with his head bowed. Next to the child is a diminutive cow. In the background behind the family are images of fish and birds.
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Shoot IV, from "Shoot"

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Seule

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Untitled(Praying Women)

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Ile de la Cité

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Mirror Image

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Invariables
A man in the center with geometric shapes around, other figures with different facial expressions.
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A Stag at Sharkey's
Two boxers trade punches in a ring with the referee close behind and the crowd cheering. One boxer is pushing the other with his forearm.
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Food tour ideas

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Julia Laplaca
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8 Items in this Learning Collection
Sugar Caster (one of a pair)
This sugar caster consists of an octagonal body topped by a domed lid. The body stands on a molded, octagonal base with alternating concave sides, a design carried through the rest of the body and the lid. The lid is pierced with geometric and floral patterns that alternate on each facet, and is surmounted by a rounded finial. The tall, slender proportions of the caster are counterbalanced by the horizontal moldings that decorate the base, body and lid. An unidentified coat of arms appears on the body of the caster.
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Sugar Means Ships - The Consumption of Sugar Sweetened Drinks Must be Reduced.
Text: Sugar Means Ships - The Consumption of Sugar Sweetened Drinks Muse be Reduced. For your beverages 400million lbs. of sugar were imported in Ships last year. Every Ship is needed to carry soldiers and supplies now. - (upper left seal) United States Food Administration - (ships labled) Sugar - (top left cloud) WAR HURRY!
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Save ... and serve the cause of freedom
Text: SAVE - 1-wheat, use more corn 2-meat, use more fish &amp; beans 3- fats, use just enough 4-sugar, use syrups - and serve the cause of freedom - U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
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Untitled
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.
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Sugar Cane Factory, Cuba
A truck hauling sugarcane stops in front of a factory with a row of palm trees in front of it.
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Throne mat

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Coconut Cup
This cup is fashioned from a coconut shell set in a shallow bowl supported on a long, narrow stem and held in place by three straps and a tall neck band. The shallow domed lid has a plain, overhanging rim and terminates in a finial with a statuette of a nude sea nymph and serpent. The metalwork is densely decorated with various masks, animals, fantastic creatures, and vegetal ornament.
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Plate fragment with design of a white gazelle against a blue ground
This plate has a central gazelle motif in white against a blue background. The paste is a light tan "Islamic II" while the glaze is glossy with wide crackle. The plate was fired upright. It is composed of a now faded cobalt color on a light green-white ground and is iridescent. The plate is attributed to the Safavid period in Iran.
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22 Items in this Learning Collection
Manet's Olympia
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.
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Untitled, Vicksburg, MS

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Untitled, Columbia, SC

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Untitled, Monroe, LA

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Margarita de Bonampak, from "Manuel Alvarez Bravo"

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Court Activities, Charleston

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Ah Puch
Bust of a figure from the chest up in three-quarters pose. The head, or perhaps a mask, is white, resembling a skull with a halo of white hair. The neck is dark brown with two white bands like chokers around it, perhaps securing the mask. The figure wears a dark red garment that is trimmed in ornate lace in white and gold. The background is a deep teal green-blue.
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Colored
An assemblage of found objects: a salvaged wood frame with wood inlay letters spelling &quot;COLORED,&quot; four portrait photographs of African American females (two photogaphs on either side of a printed poem), nine thread samples under photographs, and one hand mirror hanging on a decorative brass hook to the viewer&#39;s right of the frame. The poem reads:&nbsp;<br /> &quot;Light is Alright<br /> Yellow is Mellow<br /> Brown, Stick Around<br /> Black, Get Back<br /> (but black don&#39;t crack)&quot;<br /> <br /> The wood has a strong smell, may have been treated with molasses.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;
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After Manet
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
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Untitled
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Chasing a Slaver
Ship chasing another ship. Shore on the right hand side of the painting.
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Joseph the Carpenter
This print shows a shipyard, with three laborers working on the hull of a large boat under a dark sky.
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Paris #206
Photo of a woman in a floor-length and brightly striped formal gown standing in a multi-level staircase. The photo is taken from above and captures the woman, her companion, and the ornate handrail and stair runner.
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Seven Kiowah Men

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David Chun - Chinese Shrimp Camp
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Salome (John the Baptist)
Four people are gathered around a white table in the foreground. A nude woman on the right holds the head of a man on a gray platter. The man&#39;s body is in the bottom right corner of the print with a red trail at the neck. Across from the woman is a man in a red garmet with black and yellow stripes, and a tan cap with a red and blue stripe. Across the table are two other figures and in the background to the right stand two men in blue, much smaller than the figures around the table.
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New York in Transit I
In this long horizontally oriented print, we see multiple people of various colors on a subway car; some sit and others stand holding onto subway poles. Windows show various scenes- a plane in the sky, men playing basketball, fish, musicians, and a small group of people walking with a flag. 
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Day of All Dead

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Póvi-Támuⁿ ("Flower Morning") - San Ildefonso
This is a portrait of a young woman against a plain, dark backdrop. She wears a draped cloth garment, strands of beadwork looped around her neck. Her hair is cut in a short style with blunt, thick bangs covering her forehead. 
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Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
Resource with 87 media

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Untitled

Accession Number
2014/2.2

Title
Untitled

Artist(s)
Kara Walker

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
2014

Medium & Support
print on porcelain

Dimensions
8 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in (20.96 cm x 19.05 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Subject matter
This limited edition pitcher was created with the French porcelain manufacturer Bernardaud in conjunction with Walker's 2014 installation, titled “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby,” held at the former Domino Sugar factory in Brooklyn, NY. The exhibit was a tribute to the slaves involved in the sugar trade in the Americas and the silhouette on the pitcher resembles the woman/sphinx at the center of the 2014 installation. Walker is best known for her controversial large-scale black silhouette cut-outs that deal directly with African American history in the Antebelleum South. This pitcher is a prime example of the type of imagery and aesthetics used by Walker. Contributing to current dialogues on the representation of Black identities, her work speaks to the way that the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and sexuality operates in the context of America.

Unlike generations of Black artists before her, Walker operates as a "post-black" artist, which affords her the opportunity to address racism and sexism in perhaps an irreverent way. Like this work, her subjects are parodies of historic one-dimensional racist narratives about primitive Africa, Black beasts, and Black women's sexual prowess. She frequently (re)uses stereotypical forms of Black bodies, including the mammy archetype as she does in this work. Walker's use of silhouettes is significant and ironic; she juxtaposes traditional Victorian silhouettes with depictions of violence, hyper-sexuality, and racism.

Physical Description
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.

Primary Object Classification
Ceramic

Primary Object Type
pitcher

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Saccharum (genus)
antebellum
civil wars
emancipation
pitchers (vessels)
racial discrimination
silhouettes
slavery
sugarcane (material)
women (female humans)

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