Jerry Bywaters: A Life in Art

313 Pages·1994·73.692 MB·English

by  Francine Carraro, Ron Tyler (foreword)

JERRY BYWATERS
A LIFE IN ART
AMERICAN STUDIES SERIES
William H. Goetzmann, Editor
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JERRY BYWATERS
A LIFE IN ART
F r a n c i ne C a r r a ro
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS *y* Austin
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Publication of this book was made possible Library of Congress Cataloging-in-
in part by gifts from the following, whose Publication Data
generosity is gratefully acknowledged:
Carraro, Francine,
Jane Christman Albritton
Jerry Bywaters : a life in art / by
Nona and Richard Barrett
Francine Carraro. - 1st ed.
Bob Brousseau
p. cm. - (American studies
Bill and Mary Cheek
series)
Dr. William H. (Deacon) Crain
Includes bibliographical references and
David N. Dike
index.
Dr. Gordon Hosford
ISBN 0-292-71157-3
Irvin L. Levy
1. Bywaters,Jerry. 2. Painters-
Mrs. Eugene McDermott
Texas - Biography. 3. Art teachers -
Stanley Marcus
Texas - Biography. 4. Regionalism in
Frank Ribelin
art-Texas. I. Title. II. Series.
The Summerlee Foundation
ND237.B99C37 1994
Copyright © 1994 by the 709'.2 - dc2o 93-39098
University of Texas Press [B]
All rights reserved
ISBN 978-0-292-73369-5(cid:13)(library e-book)
Printed in the United States
ISBN 978-0-292-78994-4(cid:13)(individual e-book)
of America
First edition, 1994
Requests for permission to reproduce
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Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819.
Frontispiece: Self-Portrait, 1969.
Collection of Richard Bywaters, Dallas,
Texas. Photograph by Reinhard Ziegler.
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In memory of my father,
Roy Hansford Ramsey
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contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction XV
1 Growing Up Texan l
2 On Becoming an Artist 9
3 A Hotbed for Indigenous Art 28
4 The Fight for Acceptance 44
5 The Texas Scene Is the American Scene 58
6 A New Deal for Art 77
7 The Texas Renaissance 88
8 Bywaters Paints America 112
9 The Regional Museum 146
10 Red, White, and Blue Art at the Dallas Museum 172
II A Sympathetic Eye 205
12 A Regionalist Rediscovered 223
Notes 235
Bibliography 261
Index
27S
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illustrations
ART WORKS BY JERRY BYWATERS
(color illustrations follow page 122)
(in chronological order)
L'Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1927 16
Self-Portrait Sketch with Beard, 1927 14
David, also called Portrait of an Architect, 1933 60
In the Chair Car, 1934 109
Self-Portrait, 1935 (color illustration)
Sharecropper, 1937 no
Texas Subdivision, 1938 (color illustration)
West Texas Town, Adrian, 1938 (color illustration)
Election Day in West Texas, 1938 120
Texas Courthouse, 1938 121
Where the Mountains Meet the Plains, 1939 (color illustration)
Loading Cotton, 1939 140
Loading Oil, 1939 138
Century Plant, Big Bend, 1939 (color illustration)
Oil Field Girls, 1940 (color illustration)
Navajo Man, Shiprock, 1940 132
On the Beach at Galveston, 1940 131
On the Ranch, 1941 (color illustration)
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