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Lookout
Martin Puryear
Lithograph with chine-collé on black paper · 2025
Museum of Modern Art
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Rebel Leader. Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions
Kara Walker
Cut black paper with pencil, pressure-sensitive tape, and metal fasteners on paperboard · 2004
Museum of Modern Art
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Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions
Kara Walker
Cut black paper with pencil, pressure-sensitive tape, metal fasteners, and synthetic polymer film on paperboard · 2004
Museum of Modern Art

Lie Down I Think I Want You
Ena Swansea
Colored pencil on black paper · 2004
Museum of Modern Art
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Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions
Kara Walker
Cut black paper with pencil, pressure-sensitive tape, metal fasteners, and string on paperboard · 2004
Museum of Modern Art
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Lie Down I Think I Want You, Again
Ena Swansea
Colored pencil on black paper · 2004
Museum of Modern Art

Machine
Monika Baer
Colored pencil and cut-and-pasted printed paper on black paper · 2004
Museum of Modern Art
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Untitled
Fred Tomaselli
Gouache, colored pencil, and pencil on black paper · 2003
Museum of Modern Art

Knuckleduster II
Simon Periton
Cut colored and black paper · 2003
Museum of Modern Art

Smoke Screen I
Simon Periton
Cut colored and black paper · 2003
Museum of Modern Art

Snowy Owl
David Noonan
Gouache on black paper · 2003
Museum of Modern Art

Snowy Owl
David Noonan
Gouache on black paper · 2003
Museum of Modern Art
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Cloak & Dagger
Jason Meadows
Cut-and-pasted painted paper on black paper · 2003
Museum of Modern Art

The Wayward Flight of an Auspicious Sign
Mel Chin
Colored pencil on black paper · 2003
Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (I Wanna Live...)
Julie Becker
Pencil, colored ink, felt-tip pen, and acrylic on black paper · 2002
Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (grey hair grid with knots 3)
Mona Hatoum
Human hair with hair spray tied to black paper · 2002
Museum of Modern Art

Portage
William Kentridge
Accordion-folded illustrated book with torn black paper on encyclopedia pages on paper · 2000
Museum of Modern Art
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Stigmata aus Großmannssucht
Kai Althoff
a: Pencil on paper; b: Ink on paper; c: Ink and pencil on paper on colored paper; d: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper; e: Felt-tip pen and watercolor on paper; f: Watercolor and felt-tip pen on paper; g: Watercolor on paper; h: Pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, gouache, and felt-tip pen on paper on paper; i: Felt-tip pen, watercolor, and pencil on paper; j: Felt-tip pen and watercolor on paper; k: Pencil and felt-tip pen on paper; l: Ink, watercolor, and paint pen on black paper; m: Ink and watercolor on paper · 1999
Museum of Modern Art

Untitled
Lee Bontecou
Pastel, colored pencil, and pencil on black paper · 1998
Museum of Modern Art
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Untitled
Lee Bontecou
Colored pencil on black paper · 1998
Museum of Modern Art

John 5/22/59
Fred Tomaselli
Gouache and colored pencil on black paper · 1994
Museum of Modern Art
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Portrait of Kathe from the series Chemical Celestial Portraits
Fred Tomaselli
Colored pencil and opaque watercolor on black paper · 1994
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled
Lee Bontecou
Colored pencil on black paper · 1993
Museum of Modern Art
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Gallowgate Guest XXII
Peter Howson
Pastel on black paper · 1991
The Metropolitan Museum of Art