Installation view of Edges of Ailey (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 25, 2024-February 9, 2025). From left to right: 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; In vitrine: Elizabeth Catlett, I have always worked hard in America, 1946, printed 1989; Elizabeth Catlett, I have always worked hard in America, 1946, printed 1989; Thornton Dial, Shadows of the Field, 2008; David Hammons, Delta Spirit, 1985; Beverly Buchanan, White Shacks, 1987; Beverly Buchanan, Old Colored School, 2010; Beverly Buchanan, Orangeburg County Family House, 1993; Beverly Buchanan, Family Tree House, 2009; Sam Doyle, Frank Capers, 2023; Sam Doyle, LeBe, 1970s; Wadsworth Jarrell, Together We Will Win, 1973. Photograph by Ron Amstutz