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 Works By Theme
  Theme 1: Seeing with Candor (Portraits)

  Barthé, Richmond
  Head of a Man (Harald Kreutzberg), c.1935
  terracotta, 12x7.5x9
  ADC 60

  Barthé, Richmond
  Shoeshine Boy, 1938
  bronze, 10x5x7 in

  Lawrence, Jacob
  General Toussaint L'Ouverture, 1938
  tempera on paper, 19x11 in
  TO 20
 
  Lawrence, Jacob
  Bonaparte Looks to Capture Haiti, 1938
  tempera on paper, 19x11 in
  TO 30
 
  Bearden, Romare
  Cinque, c.1969
  silkscreen, 29x18 in
  ADC 129
 
  Pajaud, William
  Wash Day, 1970
  print 5/59, 26x20 in
 
  Catlett, Elizabeth
  Sharecropper, 1970
  color linocut 55/60, 18x24 in


  Theme 2: Inhabiting our World (Landscapes)

  Bannister, Edward M.
  Cows in Landscape, 1880
  oil on canvas, 16.25x24.50 in
  ADC 152

  Tanner, Henry O.
  The Laundress, 1885
  oil on canvas, 21x26 in
  ADC 153

  Douglas, Aaron
  Triborough Bridge, 1936
  oil on canvas, 24x36
  ADC 157

  Lawrence, Jacob
  Christoph Sets Fire to La Carte, 1938
  tempera on paper, 19x11 in
  TO 32

  Douglas, Aaron
  Accra (Gene's Window), 1956
  watercolor, 10x12 in
  ADC 164

  Scott, John T.
  Congo Square, 1991
  serigraph A/P, 36x42 in


  Theme 3: Living in the Moment (Histories and Narratives)

  Douglas, Aaron
  Defiance from Emperor Jones, c. 1926
  gouache on paper, 12.25x 17.5 in

  Lawrence, Jacob
  Toussaint Defeats Napoleon's Troops at Ennery, 1938
  Gouache on paper, 18-1/4 x 24-1/4 in.
  TO 34

  Lawrence, Jacob
  Dessalines was Crowned Emperor, 1938
  tempera on paper, 19x11 in
  TO 41

  Middleton, Sam
  Beyond the Blues, 1963
  collage on paper, 24.25x31 in
  ADC 53

  Middleton, Sam
  Still Life, 1970
  collage on paper, 11x16 in
  ADC 24

  Lawrence, Jacob
  Revolt on the Amistad, 1989
  silkscreen, 40.5x32 in


  Theme 4: Believing in Divinity (Faith)

  Tanner, Henry Ossawa
  Flight From Jerusalem, c.1900
  oil on canvas, 13x9 in
  ADC 149

  Pajaud, William
  Church Sister, c. 1994
  Pastel on paper, 32x26 in