Melvin Smith, Way Down Yonder Yesterday, 2007, Paper collage and paint on matboard, 13.5 x 28 in.

Melvin Smith, African Slave Descendant, 2008, Paper collage on matboard, 15 x 13 in.

Melvin Smith, Waiting on a Streetcar Named Desire, 2008, Paper collage on matboard, 17 x 27 in.

Melvin Smith, French Quarter Domestics, 2008, Paper collage and paint on matboard, 20 x 28 in.

Melvin Smith, Tchoupitoulas Street at Midnight, 2007, Paper collage and paint on matboard, 30 x 40 in.

Melvin Smith, Katrina, 2007, Paper collage on matboard, 17 x 31 in.

Melvin Smith, New York in the Pale Moonlight, 1996, Painted wood on wood panel, 24 x 96 x 6 in.

Melvin Smith, Chicago at Night Paper, 2009, collage on canvas, 30 x 40in.

Melvin Smith, Miss Williams, 2002, Paper collage and paint on matboard, 27.5 x 23 in.

Melvin Smith, Tribal People Without a Tribe, 2007, Paper collage and paint on matboard, 17 x 31 in.

Melvin Smith, Sharecropper, 2007, Paper collage on matboard, 18.5 x 9 in., 29.5 x 24 in.

Melvin Smith, Break Dancing in Harold Square, New York City, 1996, Paper collage and paint on matboard, 63.5 x 17.75 in.