TSU Permanent Collection 2D Items

Item set

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

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.
  • [unknown]
    Egyptian theme - unfinished
  • [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.
  • [unknown]
    includes music, theater, nightlife, a washing line, church stained glass, dancing, farm/slavery - no damage
  • [unknown]
    abstract, includes cigarette, cocktail glass, eyeballs, an amorphous form (possibly uterus), syringes inscribed MVCII and Zafina B, blue green - no damage