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TSU Permanent Collection

Title: TSU Permanent Collection
Description: Permanent art collection of Texas Southern University, includes student work, African art, Hannah Hall murals, and terra cottas
Creator: Various TSU students and professors, as well as outside artists
Date Created: 1950 - present
Has Part: TSU Hannah Hall Murals

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four panels made up of two squares and two triangles, features four or five pained faces, lower panel shows a girl in blue holding her head, remaining faces are yellow, black background
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bus scene with people sitting and standing - textured and featuring blue and orange tones
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Black man holding a globe in one hand, and a cube of sorts (with a face on it) in the other, positioned in front of a blazing sun
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silhouette of figure, hands raised
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man sitting on bed with head down, cigarette in hand, man and female symbols framed in background wall, perspective painting, checkerboard pattern in background - warm brown and gray tones
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side view of woman with closed eyes wearing wrap on head - cross hatching - black and white
Mammy
woman sitting on rocking chair with pipe in mouth, paper pinned to right wall - black and white version of #57?
Crime Scene
silhouette style figures, one with knife and severed head in hand, the other in background, hand positioned at back left in scene - perspective painting, warm purple and green
Animal Hybrid 2
bear with moose antlers in a forest - natural tones used
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mosaic-adorned table, turtle with fish motif surrounded by land and sky - earth tones green, brown and blue
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woman wearing earring and necklace, natural hair represented by circular, dark, patterned pieces of paper - warm gold,purple and brown tones
No Fear
Black woman wearing headwrap with earring and necklace, quote from Nina Simone in background “I’ll tell you what freedom is to me, no fear” - Warm purple, brown and gold tones
Oracles of Dimensions
digital print of two separate scenes; upright side: bat/vampire boy in front of castle, upside down side: boy in robe in front of building
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giant man lifting ground with head, skeletons, horse, woman’s face to left, white flag raised, skyline and landscape - warm tones: green, and brown
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abstract work with tie-dye style, pink, purple, and gold tones
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abstract work with colorful tones
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portrait of an elderly Black woman in a green outfit, with a white headwrap and a corncob pipe - color version of #67?
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fruit and vegetable arrangement with white/grey mosaic background
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greyscale side profile of a Black person with short hair
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portrait of Professor Simms wearing a green shirt in front of a dark background
Dr. Biggers - Just-In-Time (Justice)
portrait of Dr. Biggers surrounded by motifs, sankofa bird, rabbits, turtle, women dressed in traditional African wear dancing, patterns in background - warm tones
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center of tree with a hollow and short, broken limbs - warm tones, yellow and brown
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(possible print) woman breastfeeding child in hand with elongated limbs, eagle sitting in background on top of American flag (possibly covering a casket), black and white
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item gifted by “The Art Guys” Jack Massing and Michael Galbreth to Texas Southern University - etching plates, color samples for [Pre Rome]
[Pre Rome]
item gifted by “The Art Guys” Jack Massing and Michael Galbreth to Texas Southern University - print of whale leaping out of water, within and around whale are colorful fish - frame is glazed with matte turquoise color and an eyeball, hand and paintbrush and inscribed “Pre Rome”