Texas Artists: Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper

About the Collection

Holding library: Bywaters Special Collections, Hamon Arts Library

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Overview

Texas Artists: Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper is a joint digital collections project between SMU Libraries' Bywaters Special Collections and Norwick Center for Digital Solutions; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Dallas Public Library’s Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division and Fine Books Division; the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin; and SMU's Meadows Museum.

The goal of the project is to provide access to a wide range of digitized copies of works by Texas artists.

Collection Materials

The Texas Artists digital collection comprises over 2,300 digitized paintings, sculpture and works on paper that are held by the five institutions.

Holdings and Highlights

The collection contains items from more than a dozen Texas artists, including:

• Bowling, Charles T. (Charles Taylor), 1891-1985
• Brooks, James, 1906-1992
• Bywaters, Jerry, 1906-1989
• Eisenlohr, Edward G. (Edward Gustav), 1872-1961
• Elliott, William
• Hogue, Alexandre, 1898-1994
• Judd, DeForrest H. (DeForrest Hale), 1916-1992
• Lester, William L. (William Lewis), 1910-1991
• Mauzey, Merritt T. (Merritt Thomas), 1898-1973
• McClung, Florence E. (Florence Elliot White), 1894-1992
• Nichols, Perry B. (Perry Boyd), 1911-1992
• Nye, Mary Beasley
• Reaugh, Frank, 1860-1945
• Robertson, H.O. (Horace Oakley), 1887-1970
• Sanders, Ruth John
• Spellman, Coreen M. (Coreen Mary), 1905-1978
• Spruce, Everett F. (Everett Franklin), 1908-2002
• Tennant, Allie Victoria, 1892-1971
• Turner, Janet E. (Janet Elizabeth), 1914-1988
• Wingren, Dan, 1923-1998
• Wueste, Louisa H. (Louisa Heuser), 1805-1874

Complete Sketchbooks

There are three complete sketchbooks by Jerrry Bywaters: Sketchbook 01 (Colorado), Sketchbook: 02 (Colorado), and Sketchbook: 03 (New Mexico, Arizona)

There are nine complete sketchbooks from DeForrest Judd: Colorado; Gulf Coast; Caddo Lake; Taos '67; Big Bend; Big Bend, Hill Country, Caddo Lake; Mexico '68; Caddo; and Colorado '66.

There are 5 sketchbooks or sets of sketches from Everett Spruce: Ennis Figure Pads brand sketchbook, ca. 1950s; Make-A-Note brand sketchbook; E. Spruce Sketches 1931-32 sketchbook; Rembrandt Oil and Water Colors brand sketchbook, ca. 1940-1941; and Loose individual sketches, ca. 1939-1940.

There is a sketchbook by Edward Eisenlohr: Encyclopadie des Landwirthschaft (Encyclopedia of Agriculture), comprising 44 pages, and his illustrated storybook Ein Verlobungs - Epos des Glycerinus Bombenmeier. (Epic Poem for the Betrothal of Glycerinus and Bombenmeier.), comprising 16 pages