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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
Mrs. Herod, from the "Salome" series
Ethiopia Award
Portrait of the Curator, Arthur A. Schomburg
Peach Faces
I Don't No You
Run Away Dog
Red and Blue
White House (Mrs. Reagan asks Nellie to do a picture)
Blue Bird, Brown Bird
Green Birds and Envelope
Blue Cat Resting
Will Be Back When The Weather Get Cool
Blue Tree and Red Bird
Green and Black Hen
Picking Cotton
Boy, Old Man, Brown Dog
Tree of Life
Tree
Blue Fish
Wrestler
Girl in Window
Black Mule
Butterfly
Blue Bird
![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?]
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
Works on paper collection
61 items
Art and Artifacts Division Button Collection
48 items
Painting and Sculpture Collection
28 items
Material culture collection
5 items
Costume and Textile Collection
4 items
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Grumet Collection
2 items
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits collection realia
2 items
Blondiau theatre arts collection
2 items
Oxmantown Collection of West African Art
1 item
Abolitionists coins
1 item