GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Jerry Bywaters's Share Cropper is a tribute to the hardscrabble dust farmers of northern Texas. The man's stark, severe gaze and simplified forms evoke the same dignity and forthrightness of works by a fellow regionalist, Iowa-based Grant Wood. The painting also reflects the vivid-even harsh-realism of broader influences such as the German New Objectivity of the earlier 20th century.
The impact of Jerry Bywaters upon the Dallas art world is almost impossible to describe briefly. He was a founding member of the Lone Star Printmakers; an editor of Southwestern Arts; a professor at his alma mater, Southern Methodist University; and director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts for twenty-one years. Bywaters made, encouraged, acquired, and influenced much of the art that defined the city.
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Wiliam Keyse Rudolph, DMA label text, 2005
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Created in 1937
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Exhibition: Lone Star Regionalism :The Dallas Nine and their Circle 1928-1945, February 3, 1985-July 10, 1988
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Depicted location and place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826
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Oil on Masonite
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Until 1937: Jerry Bywaters (1906-1989)
From 1937: Dallas Museum of Fine arts, Allied Arts Civic Prize, Eighth Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition, purchased from the artist [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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- SMU Meadows Museum~Check out this painting by Jerry Bywaters titled Sharecropper's Wife which was created in the same year as the Dallas Museum of Art's Share Cropper.
- Bywaters, Jerry, Texas State Historical Association Biography~Read more about Jerry Bywaters on the Handbook of Texas Online (published by the Texas State Historical Association).
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General Description
Jerry Bywaters's Share Cropper is a tribute to the hardscrabble dust farmers of northern Texas. The man's stark, severe gaze and simplified forms evoke the same dignity and forthrightness of works by a fellow regionalist, Iowa-based Grant Wood. The painting also reflects the vivid-even harsh-realism of broader influences such as the German New Objectivity of the earlier 20th century.
The impact of Jerry Bywaters upon the Dallas art world is almost impossible to describe briefly. He was a founding member of the Lone Star Printmakers; an editor of Southwestern Arts; a professor at his alma mater, Southern Methodist University; and director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts for twenty-one years. Bywaters made, encouraged, acquired, and influenced much of the art that defined the city.
Excerpt from
Wiliam Keyse Rudolph, DMA label text, 2005
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- SMU Meadows Museum~Check out this painting by Jerry Bywaters titled Sharecropper's Wife which was created in the same year as the Dallas Museum of Art's Share Cropper.
- Bywaters, Jerry, Texas State Historical Association Biography~Read more about Jerry Bywaters on the Handbook of Texas Online (published by the Texas State Historical Association).
Notes
Created in 1937
Object File Reviewed
Checked Piction
Exhibition: Lone Star Regionalism :The Dallas Nine and their Circle 1928-1945, February 3, 1985-July 10, 1988
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Depicted location and place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826
Process/materials
Oil on Masonite
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 1937: Jerry Bywaters (1906-1989)
From 1937: Dallas Museum of Fine arts, Allied Arts Civic Prize, Eighth Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition, purchased from the artist [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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