My Life After the Death of My Mother

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Original Title: My Life After the Death of My Mother
Date: 1977
Creator: Bertram Samples See all items with this value
Description: Samples’ mural unfolds like a dream, with each panel above the sleeping artist revealing a constellation of scenes from the artist’s 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.
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; Urban life See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black art; Domestic animals; Motherhood; Crops; Plants; Memory
Current Location: 1st Floor, Elevator Corridor, Hannah Hall, Texas Southern University
Location: Houston; Texas; United States
Type: Murals
Additional Techniques: Mural painting
Measurements: 126 in x 109 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: 100
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0289
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: Hannah Hall Murals See all items with this value

Item sets: Art; HBCU Art: No Less Lovely Being Dark; Hannah Hall Murals Collection; Texas Southern University Collections

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