Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division

The Art and Artifacts Division collects, documents, preserves, and interprets art and artifacts by and about peoples of African heritage throughout the world. Fine and applied art and material culture objects from the seventeenth century to the present are collected, with emphasis on the visual arts of the twentieth century in the United States and Africa.

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Items in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division See More

Gamin

Gamin

The Patriots

Manhunt

KKK (Untitled)

Cowry shells

Getting ready for Hanging (Lynching)

K.K.K.

The Fugitive

Strange Fruit

Andrew Goodman

Lynching (Lynch Law)

Ku Kluxers

Pieta

The Lynching (Soldier)

American Tragedy

Three Men and a Tree

Flogging (Prelude to the Lynching)

Prelude

Mob

Klu Klux Klan

Epilogue

Crucifixon-Lynching

Egungun Layewu carving

Abolitionists coins

Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division

Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art

115 items

Art and Artifacts Division Button Collection

95 items

Poster Collection

80 items

Painting and Sculpture Collection

34 items

Works on paper collection

25 items

Material culture collection

4 items

Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits collection

2 items

Mr. and Mrs. Marc Grumet Collection

2 items

Costume and Textile Collection

1 item

Oxmantown Collection of West African Art

1 item