TSU Permanent Collection 2D Items

Title: TSU Permanent Collection 2D Items
Description: 2D items within the permanent art collection of Texas Southern University, includes student work and Hannah Hall murals
Creator: Various TSU student and professors, as well as outside artists
Date Created: 1950 - present
Has Part: TSU Hannah Hall Murals; Hannah Hall 1st Floor Murals; Hannah Hall 2nd Floor Murals; Hannah Hall 3rd Floor Murals
Is Part Of: TSU Permanent Collection

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Gaston Micheaux, was a war veteran who was given the opportunity in his first year of study to paint a mural. Reflecting on the devastation of the most recent world war, three panels depict terror, hunger, and human compassion. A scared, Black woman with children evokes the mid-20th century atmosphere of threat to Black life in America.
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Egyptian theme - unfinished
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Taylor's mural captures a snapshot of Houston’s Third Ward in the mid-20th century. An ad for Big Mama Thornton’s Harlem Stars’ performance at City Auditorium indicates that Houston is the setting. The scene is a busy and varied one; people in various sorts of dress walk around, while children play in the streets and a derelict man sits by a tree.
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includes music, theater, nightlife, a washing line, church stained glass, dancing, farm/slavery - no damage
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abstract, includes cigarette, cocktail glass, eyeballs, an amorphous form (possibly uterus), syringes inscribed MVCII and Zafina B, blue green - no damage