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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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included the military escort for school integration, flag, church, shotgun house in background, lots of fold in clothing (painting style) - some damage (top of staircase)
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geometric human figures, trumpet, saxophone, worship scene, possibility of woman with cloth on heads, partially covered face, various blocks of cool colors - no damage
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two children being hugged by large figure, all wearing colorful and textured clothing, moon in background - no damage
Fire Fighters
red hues and crosshatching, includes feet and legs (above staircase doors) heavy damage
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moon/sun, book with rays of light coming out, hammer and sword, a balance, a geometric pattern and there are angels wings included - no damage
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stingrays with dessert, mountain, underwater scene possibly, dripping paint style possible water damage - possibly unfinished
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geometric with vibrant colors, there are three scenes, surrealist, includes shotgun house, church, school and references to laundry and clothes - no damage
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uses blue and dark hues, outstretched hand and three faces/bodies- no damage
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green and dark hues, swamp with rave, butterfly and lotus flower, sickly figures appear to be fleeing from something (separated by several doorways and cutouts)
Katrina Jazz
Green fled New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and then became a Texas Southern art student. His mural’s quintessentially New Orleans themes are linked by floodwaters running throughout the composition. It features baby Moses about to be floated down the Nile, enslaved people at a market, the Creole river goddess Mami Wata, and the Superdome.
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layered images included newspaper from 3010 and apocalyptic and spirit released from jar, blue, white and black colors (above stairway door) - heavy damage
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possibly unfinished, includes a church, cemetery, arms that morph into a street, education, progression of life and Christian motifs - no damage
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possibly unfinished, includes a church, cemetery, arms that morph into a street, importance of education, progression of life and Christian motifs - no damage
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similar style to #44, textured bodies, everything is fluid and in motion, yin and yang on top and opening on bottom - heavy damage (left of staircase when walking up stairs
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three black female figures, flowers and picnic blanket, city scene and car, old woman in headwrap (ancestor?), curtains around opening of stair window - no damage
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Tiger Walk in front Sterling Student Life Center, use of bright colors, there are trees with fraternity and sorority symbols painted on them, Greek life mascots - water damage
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tree people/nature scene, colorful plants that are morphing into faces, unfinished (side of staircase when ascending up stairs) - unfinished
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Black Jesus, some biblical scenes, Exodus, pouring down water to community - no damage
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four men, learning and science, sun and star coming through, animals/farm in background - some damage and graffiti
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trees are now chopped down, separated from 42a by mural #43 (damaged)
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forest with light coming from left - heavy damage (possibly unfinished)
The History of the Negro in Education
Washington’s mural shows a timeline of Black education from left to right. On the left side of the mural, he depicts slavery and lynching above enslaved people secretly reading. In the center, girls write “Emancipation Proclamation;” next, Booker T. Washington delivers his "Atlanta Compromise" speech. The right shows emerging Black professionals.
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nightlife scene, worship, longhorn, two houses, two prominent male figures - (right of doorway when ascending stairs) heavy damage
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McCowan’s mural portrays the brutality of war in the mid-twentieth century. Cold War-era themes of scientific and technological competition and atomic weapon fears appear. Inspired by Dr. Biggers’ philosophy of mural painting, McCowan integrates the wall’s architectural elements (a fire hose and extinguisher) to highlight the tension of the scene.
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Hatter’s mural shows a full church choir of men, women, and children singing passionately. Hatter chose this location for his mural to make use of the arching shape of the doorway, similar to the arrangement of a choir standing on risers. The white panel in the middle is where the exit sign once was located; Hatter used it as a lamp in the design.