The metalwork, photographs, prints, and sculpture selected for the new exhibition, Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, are from the holdings of Bywaters Special Collections, located in the Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library. Each artist represented in the exhibition had early art training, most of it professional, yet career paths diverged as they became curators, educators, gallery directors, metalsmiths, printmakers, and sculptors. The first artist represented is Louise Heuser Wueste (Wüste), a “pioneer” since she is the first known professionally-trained woman artist to arrive in Texas in the mid-nineteenth century. Many other women artists followed in her footsteps, and their legacy is still felt today in works of art they created and organizations they established.
In view of the fragile nature of the works of art shown in this exhibition, reproductions of the originals are exhibited. Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections is on view August 21, 2017 – August 5, 2018.
Image: Courtesy of Mary Nye Collection, Bywaters Special Collections, Hamon Arts Library, Southern Methodist University
What women are included in the exhibition?
Please see the upcoming blog posts on the artist profiles in this exhibition, or contact curator, Ellen Buie Niewyk at eniewyk@smu.edu.
Dr. Davis – Here is a list of artists represented in the exhibition: Louise Heuser Wueste (Wüste), Vivian Louise Aunspaugh, Florence Elliott McClung, Mary Frances Doyle, Barbara Lucile Maples, Janet Elizabeth Turner, Mary Beasley Nye, Ann Cushing Gantz, Esther Webb Houseman, Velma Davis Dozier, Blanche McVeigh, Evaline Clarke Sellors, Cecilia Neuheisel Steinfeldt. The exhibition is small and reproductions, aside from two printing plates and copper pieces, are in display cases.