This collection consists of 11 sketch panels done by Marion Greenwood in preparation for her commissioned work for the University of Tennessee University Center in 1955. In 1954, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville hired Greenwood for a year as a visiting professor and artist in residence, to create a mural officially to be called "The History of Tennessee." The sketches depict specific subject sketches of people, to be included in the finished mural, representing Greenwood's idea of the people in east, middle, and west Tennessee. In May 1970 when the campus was in chaos associated with the antiwar "strike," the University Center was occupied by students. The Greenwood mural was found defaced with gobs of oil paint. As the damage was assessed, it was attacked again with a knife. UT restored the painting, keeping it locked in the ballroom or under guard until 1972, when the university covered it with paneling.