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Erin Harmon, Post-Historic Landscape, 2013. Gouache, watercolor, flocking on paper; hand-cut and collaged, 22 × 30 in. (55.9 × 76.2 cm). Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 2013.17. © Erin Harmon

A multi-colored image with different patterns.

Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943), Painting No. 50,1914–15. Oil on canvas, 47 × 47 in. (119.4 × 119.4 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art. Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.61 .

A image of figures working.

José Clemente Orozco, Science, Labor, and Art panel from Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood, The New School Mural Cycle, 1930–31, The New School Art Collection. Photo credit: Tom Moore

Image of stone-like objects in black and white or greyscale.

Image: Beverly Buchanan, slab works, c. 1978–1980. Cast concrete sculptures with acrylic paint. Dimensions unknown. Courtesy the Frances Mulhall Achiles Library, Artist File, Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Image of statue-like figures near water.

Andrea Carlson, Perpetual Genre, 2024. Oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, color pencil, and graphite on paper; overall: 45.5 × 61 in. (115.6 × 154.9 cm). Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Block Board of Advisors Endowment Fund purchase, 2024.2a-d. © Andrea Carlson. Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery.

Canvas with shades of dark colors, including green, grey, and blue.

Jessica Winters, born in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 1996, Lichen (Hopedale 1), 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 91,5 x 91,5 cm, MMFA, purchase, the Paradis family fund in memory of Claude Paradis, Photo MMFA.

A group of people sitting together smiling in front of a wool textile set on a table.

Woven in Wool curatorial team. Seated, left to right: Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George, Tillie Jones, Buddy Joseph. Standing, left to right: Siseenaxalt Gail White Eagle, Bethany Palkovitz, Katie Bunn-Marcuse, Kelly Robinson, sa’hLa mitSa Susan Pavel, Bridget Johnson, Olive Keilholtz, Michelle Cohen, Roxanne Hockett, Rose Mathison, Ashley Verplank McClelland. Salish blanket of mountain-goat wool in foreground. Burke Museum, Nov. 3, 2023. Photo Credit Burke Museum/Timothy Kenney.

Collage image of Church and exterior mural beneath towers (top left); William Walker, 1972 (top right); close-up of the exterior mural.

Stranger’s Home M.B. Church and exterior mural beneath Cabrini-Green's “White Walls” towers (top left); William Walker, 1972 (top right); close-up of the exterior mural; the whitewashed church building at 617 W. Evergreen St., courtesy of Karen-edid Barzman, Art & Architecture Historian, Newberry Library Scholar in Residence and the Save All of Mankind Coalition

A picture of three people looking at a breechcloth on a table.

Big Soldier family (Iowa Tribe) reunited with their grandfather’s breechcloth at First Americans Museum, 2023 [NMAI 027462.000]. Photo by James Pepper Henry.

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A person standing on the front porch of a house, with his hand on his chest, next to a ladder.

Folded Map, "unBLOCKED" project, Delon Adams in front of his home on construction day.

Polaroid photographs arranged in a grid.

Letitia Quesenberry, from the series little darlings, 2014–ongoing, panel, lacquer, photo, wax, resin, 6 x 5 x .25 in each, photo courtesy of the artist

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