Jerry Bywaters : life in art / Francine Carraro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carraro, Francine, author.

Series:

American studies series.

American Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bywaters, Jerry, 1906-1989.

Bywaters, Jerry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, [Texas] : University of Texas Press, 1994.

Summary:

As an artist, art critic, museum director, and art educator, Jerry Bywaters reshaped the Texas art world and attracted national recognition for Texas artists. This first full-scale biography explores his life and work in the context of twentieth-century American art, revealing Bywaters' important role in the development of regionalist painting. Francine Carraro delves into all aspects of Bywaters' career. As an artist, Bywaters became a central figure and spokesman for a group of young, energetic painters known as the Dallas Nine (Alexandre Hogue, Everett Spruce, Otis Dozier, William Lester, and others) who broke out of the limitations of provincialism and attained national recognition beginning in the 1930s. As director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, art critic for the Dallas Morning News, and professor of art and art history at Southern Methodist University, Bywaters became a champion of the arts in Texas. Carraro traces his strong supporting role in professionalizing art institutions in Texas and defendlng the right to display art considered "subversive" in the McCarthy era. From these discussions emerges a finely drawn portrait of an artist who used a vocabulary of regional images to explore universal themes. It will be of interest to all students of American studies, national and regional art history, and twentieth-century biography.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Growing Up Texan

2 On Becoming an Artist

3 A Hotbed for Indigenous Art

4 The Fight for Acceptance

5 The Texas Scene Is the American Scene

6 A New Deal for Art

7 The Texas Renaissance

8 Bywaters Paints America

9 The Regional Museum

10 Red, White, and Blue Art at the Dallas Museum

11 A Sympathetic Eye

12 A Regionalist Rediscovered

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 24, 2018).

ISBN:

0-292-73369-0

OCLC:

1286806016