Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

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Burning African Village Play Set with Big House and Lynching

At Connies Inn, from the "Of the Blues" series

Study for Craters (Overall Site Plan with Survey Net)

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New York Harbor, Painters at Work on the Brooklyn Bridge, November, 1946

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