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LIBRARY event: Join Us for Douglass Day 2026
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Art Cover Image:
Courtesy of Smithsonian Museum of African Art
Susanne Wenger (Olorisha Adunni)
1915–2009, Graz, Austria
Worked in Oshogbo, Nigeria
Untitled
1960–69
Screen print on paper
Gift of the Collection of William and Mattye Reed, 2011-11-2
Title of Art Work: Visual piety.
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