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Below is a descriptive listing (arranged by subject matter) of the many collections held in the Jerry Bywaters Wing.

The Jerry Gray Collection consists of musical scores composed or arranged by big band leader Jerry Gray.

The Ferde Grofe Collection consists of musical scores composed or arranged by this twentieth-century American composer.

The Paul and Viola van Katwijk Collection consists of the manuscripts and printed compositions of the van Katwijks and archival materials related to their careers, as well as music monographs, scores, concert programs, and photographs and other memorabilia documenting musical life in Dallas. Also of considerable importance are a number of autographed letters and manuscripts, many of well-known composers and musicians, including Debussy, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Rossini, and others. Dr. Paul van Katwijk was a long-time SMU faculty member who also served as conductor of the Dallas Symphony; Mrs. van Katwijk was an accomplished pianist and composer.

The Harold von Mickwitz Collection documents the career of SMU’s first Dean of Music and activities of the Mickwitz Club.  These approximately two linear feet of archival materials include photographs, scrapbooks, annual directories, recital programs, correspondence, and clipping files; references to music activities at other Dallas institutions, such as St. Mary’s College, also appear.

The Lloyd Pfautsch Collection documents aspects of the career of this long-time SMU faculty member and renowned figure in the field of choral music.  The collection consists of approximately two linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, clipping files, photographs, performance programs, and meeting minutes, documenting the activities of the Dallas Civic Chorus, which Dr. Pfautsch served as director from 1960-1986.

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The Ronald L. Davis Collection consists of approximately seven linear feet of programs from theatre performances, operas, and other events collected by this long-time SMU faculty member, one of the nation’s premier cultural historians.  It also includes 2 flat boxes of scores by Dallas big band leader Jerry Gray.
 

The Greer Garson Collection includes correspondence, photographs, slides, film and theater scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, programs, awards, and scrapbooks, as well as a sampling of the actress' personal memorabilia. These materials chronicle Greer Garson's acting career from London's West End through her Hollywood and Broadway years and her many philanthropic activities.

The McCord/Renshaw Collection on the Performing Arts includes catalogs, clipping files, correspondence, photographs, playbills, posters, programs, scripts, set designs, and works of art on paper. While the collection emphasizes the performing arts in Texas and the Southwest, including papers of the Dallas Little Theatre and SMU's Arden Club, it also contains materials related to film and theater productions throughout the United States and Europe.

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The Vivian Aunspaugh Art Club Collection consists of scrapbooks and a few photographs collected by former students of Vivian Aunspaugh, who began teaching art in Dallas in the early twentieth century.

The Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest includes catalogs, clipping files, correspondence, photographs, mural studies, slides, and works of art on paper related to Jerry Bywaters' career as artist, director of the Dallas Museum of Art, and long-time SMU faculty member as well as to the work of many of his artistic contemporaries in the region.

The Mary Doyle Collection includes clipping files, correspondence, photographs, and works of art on paper related to the career of this charter member of the Texas Printmakers, formed in the early 1940s by several women artists.

The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Collection includes catalogs, clipping files, correspondence, photographs, mural studies, slides, and works of art on paper related to this Dallas couple's artistic careers throughout the American West.

The E.G. Eisenlohr Collection includes clipping files, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, and works of art on paper related to the career of this early Dallas artist and art instructor.

The Ann Cushing Gantz Collection documents all aspects of the operation of the Cushing Gallery and chronicles the activities of such arts organizations as the Dallas Print and Drawing Society.  Its approximately five feet of archival material, primarily correspondence, scrapbooks, clipping files were donated by Ann Cushing Gantz, a long-time Dallas painter, printmaker, gallery owner, and teacher. 

The DeForrest Judd Collection includes clipping files, correspondence, small enamelings, photographs, sketchbooks, works of art on paper, and a few small wood sculptures related to the career of this Texas artist.

The William Lester Collection includes clipping files, correspondence, photographs, and sketchbooks related to the career of this art professor at the University of Texas, who was a contemporary of Bywaters and Dozier.

The Octavio Medellin Collection includes catalogs, clipping files, correspondence, small examples of fused glass experiments, photographs, and slides related to the career of this Mexican sculptor who lived in the Dallas area for many years and whose work is represented in museums and private collections throughout the United States.

The Mary Nye Collection consists of archival material chronicling the history of Nye Galleries (1956-1963) as well as works on paper by artists Otis Dozier, E. G. Eisenlohr, John Guerin, Frank Reaugh, and Hiram Williams.  After closing her gallery, Mary Beasley Nye (1916-1998) continued to represent Texas artists until 1983.  In addition to the above artists, she exhibited work by Henri Bartscht, Ed Bearden, Ethel Brodnax, Cecil Casebier, Ben Culwell, Wilfred Higgins, DeForrest Judd, Octavio Medellin, Fred Mitcham, Herb Rogalla, Stephen Rascoe, Olin Travis, Dorothy Poulos, Ruth Tears, Broar Utter, and Betty Winn.  Her husband, Hermes, was a well-known Dallas attorney, writer, and folk singer. 

The Henry Potter Collection consists of several hundred shop sketches and accompanying invoices from Potter Metal Studios in Dallas, which fashioned lighting fixtures, furniture, and other items, primarily in iron, for North Texas businesses, private residences, and institutions (e.g., Dallas Little Theatre, SMU, Highland Park Shopping Village, Highland Park United Methodist Church, and Highland Park Presbyterian Church), from the 1930s through the 1960s.

The Evaline Sellors Collection consists of a bound portfolio of photographs documenting the career of this Texas sculptor as well as two drawings depicting scenes from the ruins of Chichen-Itza by Octavio Medellin

The Everett Spruce Collection consists of approximately two and-a-half feet of archival material, three of the artist’s sketchbooks, and forty-four additional works on paper.  A native of rural Arkansas, Spruce studied under Olin Travis and Tom Stell at the Dallas Art Institute and taught in the department of studio art at the University of Texas at Austin from 1940 to 1974.

The Olin Travis Collection includes catalogs, clipping files, correspondence, photographs, and other archival materials related to the career of this art instructor who and taught in Dallas and Arkansas from the 1920s through the 1950s.

The Janet Turner Collection contains prints as well as etching plates and linoleum blocks related to these works by this member of the Texas Printmakers who served on the art faculties of universities in Texas and California.

The Esther Webb Houseman Collection includes archival materials, primarily clippings and a scrapbook, on Dallas School of Creative Arts (now the Craft Guild of Dallas).  It was founded by Esther Houseman and Velma Davis Dozier, who began their careers as metalsmiths in Dallas in the 1920s and were known as the “Lady Blacksmiths.”

The Dan Wingren Collection consists of twenty-three charcoal drawings and a sketchbook of thirty-three additional charcoal drawings executed during a 1956 stay in Cannes, France by this long-time member of SMU’s Division of Art, who was described by Jerry Bywaters as “a versatile performer of distinction in many areas.”

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