TSU Permanent Collection 2D Items

Items

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  [unknown]

  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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  [unknown]

  Egyptian theme - unfinished
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  [unknown]

  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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  [unknown]

  includes music, theater, nightlife, a washing line, church stained glass, dancing, farm/slavery - no damage
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  [unknown]

  abstract, includes cigarette, cocktail glass, eyeballs, an amorphous form (possibly uterus), syringes inscribed MVCII and Zafina B, blue green - no damage