City Suburb at Dusk, 1978, Oil on Masonite, Collection of G. Pat Bywaters. Photo by Michael Bodycomb.
The late Jerry Bywaters (’26), a member of the SMU arts faculty for 35 years, transformed Texas art and achieved national recognition for the state’s artists. The former director of the Dallas Museum of Art also led the Dallas Nine, a group of artists who developed the style known as Lone Star Regionalism. The Meadows Museum presents two exhibitions celebrating his achievements: "Jerry Bywaters, Interpreter of the Southwest" and "Lone Star Printmaker" through March 2, 2008. For more information, visit www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org or call 214-768-2516. Accompanying publications (with the same titles as the exhibits) provide a retrospective on Bywaters’ works, and were written by Sam Ratcliffe (’74), director of special collections at SMU’s Hamon Arts Library, which holds the Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest, and Ellen Buie Niewyk (’78), curator of the Bywaters Collection. The books can be obtained online at www.tamu.edu/upress.