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Home>Plan Your Visit>Tours, Guides, and Maps>Self-Guided Tours>Afro-Atlantic Histories

# Afro-Atlantic Histories Audio Tour

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stainless steel with mirrored finishNational Gallery of Art, Washington, Firestone Contemporary Art Acquisition Fund
  - A Place to Call Home (Africa America Reflection) , 2020
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acrylic and collage on canvasNational Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women’s Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)© Kerry James Marshall
  - Voyager , 1992
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metal tags on charcoal jute sacks on smock textile on charcoal jute sacksCourtesy of the Artist and White Cube GalleryAudio courtesy of the artist and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  - AKOSUA SOM BI , 2014, 2019
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watercolor and pencilPrivate Collection, São Paulo
  - Neck Leash (Who Shall Speak on Our Behalf?) , 2014
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archival pigment printArtist Collection © Nona FaustineAudio courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  - From Her Body Sprang Their Greatest Wealth, from the series White Shoes , 2013
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oil on canvasCourtesy of Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis
  - The Last Sale of Slaves in St. Louis, Missouri , c. 1880
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oil on woodboardMuseu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Gift of Antenor Rezende, 1951
  - Landscape with Anteater , c. 1660
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oil on canvasNational Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston© Estate of Barrington Watson
  - Conversation , 1981
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woodMuseu Afro Brasil, São Paulo 
  - Oxê of Shango—Orisha’s Tool , 19th century
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painted leather, fabric, shells and beads on palm tree veinMuseu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Gift of Ana Dale, Carlos Dale Junior, Antonio Almeida, Thais Darzé, and Paulo Darzé, in the context of the Afro-Atlantic Histories exhibition, 2018
  - Sasara Ati Aso Ailo, 1960, Ope Olodo Ejo—River Serpent Palm, undated
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wood and mixed mediaThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of The Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas, 2003.97Photograph © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Photographer: Thomas R. DuBrock
  - Headstone for Marie Laveau , 1990
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oil on canvasMuseu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Gift of the artist, in the context of the Afro-Atlantic Histories exhibition, 2018© Dalton Paula
  - Zeferina, João de Deus Nascimento , 2018
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photographic wall mural from digital fileNational Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund© Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson, New York, and Stevenson Cape Town / JohannesburgAudio courtesy Art21
  - Ntozakhe II, (Parktown) , 2016
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textileCollection of the artist
  - Black Resistance Organizations—Ilê Aiyê , 1995
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oil on canvasCourtesy of Nick CaveAudio © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation—used with permission
  - Space to Forget , 2014
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acrylic on canvas, dyed, painted, and pieced textileGlenstone Museum, Potomac, MarylandAudio courtesy of Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland
  - Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima? , 1983
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mirrors, concrete blocks, cement bag, sledgehammer, construction stones bag, paint bucket, wood panels, palm tree trunk, burlap, leather, ropes, sequin, awning, plastic ropes, fabric, trumpet, pins, duct tape, maracas, sneaker, tambourine, working gloves, boxing gloves, acrylicNational Gallery of Art, Washington, New Century FundWith thanks to GFR Media, Puerto Rico
  - Power Figure , 2016-2020
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