“Cutting Squash (Leah Chase)” by Gustave Blache III, 2010, oil on panel, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist in honor of Mr. Richard C. Colton Jr. Copyright Gustave Blache III
Tiffany Chung, "Operation Lam Son 719, 30 Jan.-6 April 1971." 2018, acrylic, ink, and oil and vellum and paper. Courtesy of the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York. Copyright Tiffany Chung.
Puerto Rican superhero La Borinqueña is shown during a mystical encounter with the powerful deity Yucahu, who appears as a mountain-sized version of a cemi, a type of ritual object. In the comic, she encounters other Native deities originally described in the 1498 chronicle An Accou