Installation view of Edges of Ailey (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 25, 2024-February 9, 2025). From left to right: Purvis Young, Ocean, 1975; Fon peoples, Male Drum, 19th–20th century; Fon peoples, Female Drum, 19th–20th century; Hale Aspacio Woodruff, African Headdress, c. 1931–46, printed 1996; Loïs Mailou Jones, Africa, 1935; Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Adebiyi, ca. 1989; Noah Purifoy, Untitled, 1970; Hector Hyppolite, The Congo Queen, 1946; Loïs Mailou Jones, Marche-Haiti, 1982; Beverly Buchanan, Orangeburg County Family House, 1993; Beverly Buchanan, Old Colored School, 2010; Beverly Buchanan, Family Tree House, 2009; Beverly Buchanan, White Shacks, 1987; Beverly Buchanan, Tom’s House, 1995; Beverly Buchanan, Lillington, NC Harnett Co., 2007; Sam Doyle, Frip, St. Helena’s Best, 1970s; Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled, 1992; Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled, 1992; Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled, 1992. Photograph by Ron Amstutz