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Woman and Nautilus

Description: The painting exhibits a woman in the center of the canvas. She is surrounded by a bare tree, curved and nestled geometric shapes that create a landscape. Some gray brick shapes are at the woman's left. At her feet is a large nautilus and she cups in her hands a small plant.
Date: 1932
Creator: Compton, Carl Benton
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

KSC Greenhouse

Description: The painting depicts the interior of a greenhouse. The perspective in raking along a bench set with potted plants.
Date: 1934
Creator: Vandiver, Mabel
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Ten Plastic Concepts on a Love Scene

Description: The painting consists of shapes floating together and overlapping in places. Two large yellow shapes in the upper portion of the canvas appear as sun type images. A brown shape resembles two seated figures and floats in the upper portion of the painting. A brown meandering shape moves across the lower section of the painting. Surrounding the brown meandering shape is blue which might represent water.
Date: 1934~
Creator: Merida, Carlos
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Ecce Homo

Description: The vertical sculpture depicts a person, from the title, Christ and His crown of thorns. The figure is curvilinear and emaciated.
Date: 1950~
Creator: Medellin, Octavio
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Round Table

Description: The stoneware and porcelain piece is a table with a realistic appearing fringed leather covering.
Date: 1965~
Creator: Gough, Georgia Belle Leach
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Spring Flowers

Description: The painted artwork depicts a vase of flowers. The predominant colors are yellows and greens. The brushstrokes are bold and expressive. The composition in square.
Date: 1969
Creator: McCarter, R. William
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Yellow Landscape

Description: The oil painting depicts a landscape built up of squares of yellow, beige, brown, green and orange delineated with dark outlines. The sky area is made up of several broad areas of color.
Date: 1969~
Creator: McCarter, R. William
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Bouquet of Flowers

Description: The focal point of the painting is a bouquet of flowers. Two other small vessels are on either side of the vase. The colors of the vase and flowers are pale yellow and pink; the green background and reddish foreground consist of larger and looser brushstrokes.
Date: unknown
Creator: Simkins, Martha E.
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

In the Valley

Description: The painting depicts and mountainous landscape with a cluster of houses and a church in the middle ground, the valley. The multitude of colors are muted in tone and the brushstrokes are broad.
Date: unknown
Creator: Vandiver, Mabel
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Streetscape

Description: The painting depicts a street scene with possibly a church on the right with its gargoyles, some street vendors and signs. Distance is blocked from view by the vertical facade of a building at the end of the street.
Date: unknown
Creator: Simkins, Martha E.
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Trees Landscape

Description: The painting depicts trees, fence and water. The colors are vibrant and the texture of the rough paper is visible.
Date: unknown
Creator: Vandiver, Mabel
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Untitled

Description: The vertical painting consists of a large vertical shape in the center with a red head or top and a dark bottom or body. Surrounding the figurative type image is a orange and red oval which floats in the center. At the top and bottom edges are orange bands which lay behind the cartouche.
Date: unknown
Creator: Betti, Claudia Webb
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Untitled

Description: The landscape painting includes a cluster of houses in the distance. In the foreground is a fencing and rolling hills with a windmill. Framing each side of the painting are tall tree trunks or electrical poles.
Date: unknown
Creator: Marquis, Corrine
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Untitled

Description: The bronze sculptural pieces consist of architectural type elements combined into a vertical almost bell-like shape.
Date: unknown
Creator: Davis, Richard Miller
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Untitled

Description: The painting depicts several birds in profile. The style is abstracted with the fowls outlined and brightly colored.
Date: unknown
Creator: Berger, Lorraine Estelle
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Untitled

Description: The horizontal painting depicts a landscape in which the sky is gray and the moon or sun is a solid red-orange color. In the foreground is some brown and yellow grasses which create a hill or small mountain shape.
Date: unknown
Creator: Berger, Lorraine Estelle
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Untitled

Description: An angular and abstracted tree shape dominates the center of the painting. The brushstrokes are dark and angular. The foreground landscape is created from several stripes of color and pattern. A tree with yellow leaves is in the background and the composition in surrounded by a brown arch shape at the top of the painting.
Date: unknown
Creator: Vandiver, Mabel
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Untitled

Description: The vertically oriented sculpture appears to depict a fish or a bird. The upper portion of the piece is smooth while the base is rough.
Date: 1970~
Creator: Cunningham, Michael Eugene
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Untitled

Description: The sculpture consists of several vertical pieces twisting with each other secured in a square wood base.
Date: unknown
Creator: Laing, Richard Harlow
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Untitled Hanging

Description: The artwork consists of several woven panels in various colors and textures. The panels are evenly spaced in a circular fashion and end in fringe draping to the floor. The work was created on a 16 heddle loom.
Date: unknown
Creator: Fuchs, Rudolph
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Words and Pictures: Vernon Fisher, 1980-2019

Description: Words and Pictures is an exhibition and catalogue of paintings and sculptures by Texas artist Vernon Fisher, dated 1980 to 2019. Curator Tracee Robertson and critic Dave Hickey explore themes and methods in Fisher’s art. Fisher came of age in the twentieth century, characterized as the bloodiest and most brutal century in history. Like many artists of his era, including poets and writers who inspire him, Fisher explores what it means to be lost in the face of indifference. His art is a personal… more
Date: 2019
Creator: Robertson, Tracee W.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art Education: K-12/Higher Education

Description: Video recording featuring co-hosts Lauren Cross, Ph.D., and Kathy Brown, Ph.D., engage in ongoing conversations about anti-racist pedagogy in the arts and design. Joined by distinguished guest panelists, Joni Boyd Acuff, Ph.D., and James Haywood Rolling Jr., Ed.D., this first installment of the 2044 series introduces Afrofuturism and the ways that it can help reimagine art discourses, laying the groundwork for establishing Afrofuturism as a framework for conceptualizing and enacting anti-racist… more
Date: February 12, 2021
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Acuff, Joni Boyd & Rolling, James Haywood, Jr.
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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