Jerry Bywaters : : A Life in Art / / Francine Carraro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Carraro, Francine,
• TeilnehmendeR: Tyler, Ron.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: American Studies Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292733695; 9783110745351
• DOI: 10.7560/711570
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Francine Carraro.

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.