Mural Study for Family at Fireplace

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Original Title: title unknown
Devised Title: Mural Study for Family at Fireplace
Date: 1983
Creator: Ronald Word See all items with this value
Description: Word’s painting is a partial pre-study of his Hannah Hall mural. The painting, featuring a family in a small room with a fireplace, washboard, mounted gun, and radio, is done in a geometric style frequently seen in the art of Biggers’ students from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Word’s full mural design includes adjacent panels depicting a church, an abstract figure with a bubble-like head, and an homage to the Wizard of Oz.
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: Architecture; Black art; Domestic labor; Weapons
Type: Painting
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Measurements: 24 3/4 in x 36 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: pc242
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0186
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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