Mural Study for &quot;My Life After the Death of My Mother&quot;

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Original Title: title unknown
Devised Title: Mural Study for "My Life After the Death of My Mother"
Date: 1977
Creator: Bertram Samples See all items with this value
Description: Samples' painting is a study of his mural created in Hannah Hall. The design unfolds like a dream, with each panel above the central figure (the artist himself), who is asleep on a table, revealing a constellation of scenes from the artists’ youth. Lower window panels evoke a harmonious existence with nature and animals, while upper panels reveal struggles with racism in the South and his mother’s death. The shadowy dogs along the sides of the study were not included in the final mural.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; HBCU student work See all items with this value; Family See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black art; Crops; Death; Domestic animals; Memory; Motherhood
Type: Painting
Medium: paint on canvas
Measurements: 36 in x 28 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: pc201
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0110
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Contributing Institution: Texas Southern University
Collection: Permanent Collection See all items with this value

Item sets: Art; Texas Southern University Collections; University Museum at Texas Southern Permanent Collection