In 1977, philanthropist Margaret McDermott donated funds to add a work of art to the lobby of Gooch Auditorium. New York artist David Novros was commissioned to create a fresco to decorate the walls. The fresco technique consists of applying pigment to a surface of freshly-troweled plaster. This close-up shows the vibrant colors of the completed fresco, which is approximately 22 feet high (floor to ceiling) and 100 feet long. Novros's preparatory drawings for the fresco were published in a 1978 book titled 'David Novros: Fresco Drawings Preparatory studies for a fresco executed at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, summer 1977'. The book was published by the UT Health Science Center, which was the former name of UT Southwestern Medical Center.
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