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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.
Items in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division See More
Slave sculpture
Bread and Roses
Genevieve Nelson
Bas Relief of a Female Dancer
Laughing Boy
The Pugilist
Head of Minerva
James Weldon Johnson
Reclining Nude
Laborer
Books Are Weapons
Evelyn Preer in a scene from The Homesteader
Charles Lucas and Iris Hall in another scene from The Homesteader
All power to the people, BU.X.411
Black Panther / Newton, Seale / Congress Assembly / Peace & Freedom, BU. X.435
Don't tread on us, BU. X.340
Poor People's Campaign, BU. X.380
Free Huey, Seize the Time, BU. X.409
I gave to free Angela, BU. X.420
Free Huey, BU. X.406
Fist symbol, BU. X.566
Proud American, February 14th, 1958, BU.X.253
James Meredith March through Mississippi: "March against fear", BU. X.375
We shall overcome, BU.X.646
Free The Panther 21, BU.10.001.5
Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art
95 items
Art and Artifacts Division Button Collection
47 items
Works on paper collection
18 items
Poster Collection
14 items
Painting and Sculpture Collection
14 items
Material culture collection
4 items
The Homesteader Motion Picture Stills Collection
3 items
Oxmantown Collection of West African Art
2 items
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits collection
1 item