Installation view of Edges of Ailey (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 25, 2024-February 9, 2025). From left to right: Alma Thomas, Mars Dust, 1972; Charles White, Preacher, 1952; Lonnie Holley, Sharing the Struggle, 2018; Benny Andrews, The Way to the Promised Land, 1994; Sam Doyle, Frank Capers, 2023; Sam Doyle, LeBe, 1970s; Wadsworth Jarrell, Together We Will Win, 1973; Faith Ringgold, United States of Attica, 1971; Wadsworth Jarrell, Revolutionary (Angela Davis), 1972; James Van Der Zee, Marcus Garvey Rally, 1924; Jeff Donaldson, Soweto/So We Too, 1979; Horace Pippin, School Studies, 1944; Horace Pippin, Cabin in the Cotton, c. 1931–37; Horace Pippin, Knowledge of God, 1944; William H. Johnson, At Home in the Evening, c. 1940; John Biggers, Sharecropper, 1945; Robert Duncanson, View of Cincinnati, Ohio from Covington, Kentucky, c. 1851; Joe Overstreet, Purple Flight, 1971; Emma Amos, Judith Jamison as Josephine Baker, 1985; Kerry James Marshall, Souvenir IV, 1998; Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A Knave Made Manifest, 2024; Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Fly Trap, 2024; Missa Marmalstein and other makers unknown, Block 1871 of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, 1987. Photograph by Ron Amstutz