TSU Permanent Collection

Items

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  [Post Rome]

  item gifted by “The Art Guys” (Jack Massing and Michael Galbreth) to Texas Southern University - colorful print, face within iris of eyeball intersected by colorful beams, inside a gilded metal frame decorated with coins and inscribed “Post Rome”
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  [unknown]

  oblong ceramic with red and beige coloring
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  [unknown]

  small, round glazed ceramic with pale red and white coloring
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  [unknown]

  round, glazed ceramic with brown and white coloring - similar style to #44
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  [unknown]

  large, round glazed ceramic with beige, brown, and white coloring
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  [unknown]

  Four figures drawn in style of traditional African wooden carving. Mother and children holding hands and on her back, floating along lilly pads. Comet at top left, fish in foreground. Brown, green, and dark tones
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  [unknown]

  Three women featured in the background with tribal patterns on clothing. In the foreground there is a shell, flower, and beaded items. Warm tones red, brown and green.
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  Man in Cowboy Hat

  Landscape scene with man in cowboy hat, shirtless and looking left, horses in background. Natural and calming tones, purple, brown, green and red.
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  unknown

  Stokley Carmichael portrait, protest scene, multiple hands extended upward, in background very faint wings and halo, greyscale
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  [unknown]

  Man on the right is shown with blood dripping from forehead and neck (Black Jesus?), to left a group of men, women and children looking at the bloodied man distraught, confused, or with worry. Night scene with street light casting off shadow. Mixture of colors, warm toned
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  Self-Portrait

  Portrait of the artist in three positions, one facing towards the viewer, the left holding face in palms and the right closed eyes with hands extending outward. Children jumping surrounded by wispy white fluid/movement
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  [unknown]

  Railroad and landscape scene with six figures set apart in three groups creating a triangular shape. Woman holding bucket, pair in center looking onward and three figures on right side tilling the land. Warm tones, brown and green
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  [unknown]

  Portrait of a smiling Black woman with closed eyes and large gold earrings, head wrap pattern extends beyond the head, filling the background of the painting. Blue and gold tones
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  [unknown]

  Prince portrait in screen print style, heavy use of gold textured paint, same style as #34
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  [unknown]

  Muhammad Ali portrait in screen print style, heavy use of gold textured paint.
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  [unknown]

  Abstract shapes painted with cool blue tones
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  [unknown]

  Base of a tree, with coiling vines on left and small plants on right. Warm brown and green tones
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  Landscape

  Three figures (two with one eye each and one faceless) foreground a landscape scene. Use of earth tones, red, brown, green, and blue
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  Bolivar Point

  Two women appear to be fleeing with children in their arms, standing over the roots of a tree. Below, there is a damaged boat and heavy tides. To the right, a man extends his arm. Cool tones, blue and green. Heavily damaged - punctured rip in canvas
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  [unknown]

  Geometric, tall grass with five small cacti on ground, use of cool green tones.
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  unknown

  Three bare trees surrounded by textured, red ground - clouded scene in background. Blue and red tones - light scratch in paint
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  The Great Race

  Young boy sitting on grass with Black angel extending hands in the sky, another child running in the field at a distance. To the left a bird sits calmly. Cool blue tones.
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  [unknown]

  Group of three figures fishing in water with bucket on side. Cool tones of blue throughout the painting. Slight damage to painting
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  Metamorphosis

  Two figures side by side looking upward into the sky, greyscale with cross-hatching
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  [unknown]

  Geometric styled landscape scenery of grass, mushrooms and two broken trees. Cool tones blue and green. mushrooms, tree stump, cool tones