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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
Leonore
Negro Pharaoh
The Crisis Magazine
Mende Helmet Mask Sande mask from Sierra Leone in West Africa
Mrs. Herod, from the "Salome" series
Ethiopia Award
Portrait of the Curator, Arthur A. Schomburg
![Girl seated by a window, next to the El [Miss Sanderson?]](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=58715545&t=t)
Girl seated by a window, next to the El [Miss Sanderson?]
Portrait of H.O. Tanner
Portrait of Victor Sejour
Portrait of Pouchkine
Portrait of Christophe
Portrait of Lislet Geoffroy
Portrait of Juan De Pareja
Portrait of Dumas
Portrait of Bannaker
Portrait of Archbishop Victoria
Portrait of Makonnen
Portrait of Cyrille Bissette
Portrait of Faustin Soulouque
Portrait of Tahiti Empress of the Abyssinia, Wife of Menelik
Portrait of Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia
Portrait of H.O. Tanner
Portrait of Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
Portrait of Toussaint L'Ouverture
Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art
116 items
Michael Cummings African American Art Event Ephemera Collection
99 items
Poster Collection
80 items
Art and Artifacts Division Button Collection
48 items
Works on paper collection
39 items
Painting and Sculpture Collection
31 items
Material culture collection
6 items
Costume and textile collection
4 items
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits collection realia
3 items
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Grumet Collection
2 items
Blondiau theatre arts collection
2 items
Oxmantown Collection of West African Art
1 item
Abolitionists coins
1 item