Community Environment

Media: TexasSouthern/HCAC.TSU.0136/DSC_5599-2.jpg; TexasSouthern/HCAC.TSU.0136/DSC_5599.jpg

Original Title: Community Environment
Date: c. 1975
Creator: Bennie Settles See all items with this value
Description: Settles' painting shows a Black man abused by a group of 5 police, while a group looks on in the background. This painting reflects frustration with police brutality and racism towards the Black community. Settles replicated this image (of the police surrounding the man) in another of his paintings with a different, more abstract background.
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; Racism See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black art; Police brutality; Racial violence
Type: Painting
Medium: paint on canvas
Measurements: 33 1/2 in x 39 3/4 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: pc227
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0136
Rights: All rights held by the University Museum at Texas Southern. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact University Museum, Texas Southern University umuseum@gmail.com Attn: Museum Director. Materials not created by Texas Southern University may still be under copyright. Additional materials may be presented for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law.
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