Njerry bywaters on the ranch children's books

Else, the binding is tight and solid, the edges and corners sharp, and the interior clean and free of markings. The casual biography of a prairie town philips, shine, bywaters, jerry on. As an artist, art critic, museum director, and art educator, jerry bywaters reshaped the texas art world and attracted national recognition for texas artists. From blanton museum of art, jerry bywaters, oil field girls 1940, oil on board, 75. Landscape figures heavily in bywaters work as seen here. In addition to the paintings, the book is illustrated with drawings, photographs. A study of his print notebook, with a catalogue of his prints and a checklist of his illustrations and ephemeral works. Merritt mauzey 18971973 was an american lithographer and noted childrens book author. Jerry bywaters, interpreter of the southwest by sam.

This first fullscale biography explores his life and work in the context of twentiethcentury american art, revealing bywaters important role in the development of regionalist painting. Jerry bywaters, artist, son of porter ashburn and hattie williamson bywaters, was born at paris, texas, on may 21, 1906. The batik designs, inspired by dutch horticultural books, imported european flowers, and. Sometimes, as with his picture of a huge, prickly maguey or his portrait of. Consists of scrapbooks and a few photographs collected by former students of vivian aunspaugh. He played a major role in establishing the texas regionalism movement of the 1930s and 1940s, whose. His emergence on the dallas art scene began after he graduated from southern methodist university in 1926 with a degree in comparative literature. Texas subdivision jerry bywaters comparative literature, southern methodist. Past exhibitions jerry bywaters meadows museum, dallas. On the ranch by jerry bywaters american 1941 oil and tempera on masonite. Jerry bywaters was an important voice in the arts in texas, having trained in dallas and in the east with robert vonnoh, bruce crane, and john sloan.