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Curated Group

Caribbean, African Diaspora, Enslavement in the Americas

Curated by Aliyah Khan

Group Details:

Some of these objects can be found in the UMMA “Unsetting Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism” Winter 2025 exhibit, https://umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/unsettling-histories/.

Village Wedding
1950-2000
Georges Auguste
oil on canvas
Cock Fight
circa 1960-2012
Franck Robuste
oil on canvas
Haiti Crucifixes (Earthquake Victim and Murdered Haitian Hero)
2010
Joanne Leonard
inkjet print on paper
Stereoscope Image, Sample Set No.1: Jamaica, Queen Street, Kingston
printed 1978
Stereo Classics Studio
photograph on cardboard
Stereoscope Image, Sample Set No.1: Plantation Scene
printed 1978
Stereo Classics Studio
photograph on cardboard
Engineering Corps
1861
Mathew B. Brady
albumen print on paper
J. Marion Sims: Gynecologic Surgeon, from “The History of Medicine”
circa 1952
Robert Thom
oil on canvas
One of five prints from the suite “The Means to an End–A Shadow Drama in Five Acts”
1995
Kara Walker
aquatint and etching on light cream Somerset Satin wove paper
One of five prints from the suite “The Means to an End–A Shadow Drama in Five Acts”
1995
Kara Walker
aquatint and etching on light cream Somerset Satin wove paper
One of five prints from the suite “The Means to an End–A Shadow Drama in Five Acts”
1995
Kara Walker
aquatint and etching on light cream Somerset Satin wove paper
One of five prints from the suite “The Means to an End–A Shadow Drama in Five Acts”
1995
Kara Walker
aquatint and etching on light cream Somerset Satin wove paper
One of five prints from the suite “The Means to an End–A Shadow Drama in Five Acts”
1995
Kara Walker
aquatint and etching on light cream Somerset Satin wove paper
Untitled
1996-1997
Kara Walker
cut paper between linen
Freedom, a Fable
1997
Kara Walker; David Eisen; Timothy Silverlake; Typecraft, Inc; Roswell Book Binders; Marketing Techniques, Inc.
paper
Untitled
2014
Kara Walker; Bernardaud Manufacture de Porcelaine
print on porcelain
Colonisation
2009
William Adjété Wilson
cloth with appliques
Vanitas (Still Life), with globe, skull, candle, tazza, and covered cup
1633-1635
Willem Claesz Heda
oil on panel
Flay (James Madison)
2019
Titus Kaphar
oil on canvas with nails
Mississippi, from “The Confederacy”
1971
Robert Indiana
color screenprint on paper
The Famous Picnic at Val Kill
1975
Ann Murfee Allen
oil on canvas
Emancipation Group
1865
Thomas Ball
bronze
Lincoln and the Emancipated Slave
circa 1866
Randolph Rogers
painted plaster
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1907
Victor Brenner
bronze relief mounted on marble
Mount Hood from The Dalles
1871
John Stanley
oil on canvas
Adoration of the Magi
1634-1715
Jan Erasmus Quellinus
oil on paper mounted on canvas
Sugar Caster (one of a pair)
1739
Monogrammist CO
silver
Sugar Caster (one of a pair)
1739
Monogrammist CO
silver

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