GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Jerry Bywaters was an important voice in the arts in Texas, having trained in Dallas and in the East with Robert Vonnoh, Bruce Crane, and John Sloan. He was a founder of the Dallas Artists League, editor of the magazine Southwestern Arts, a critic for the Dallas Morning News, and director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts from 1942 until his retirement in 1964. While many regional artists in the prewar years were painting nostalgic anecdotal visions of America, Bywaters took a different tack. Like a memento mori still life of an earlier century, On the Ranch is an eerie assemblage of detritus cataloguing the history of Texas—from the American Indian symbolized by the arrowhead, to the gunslinger, the cowpoke, the rancher who fenced in the range, and the vanished inhabitants of Bywaters's own time, driven from the ranch perhaps by the blows of depression and drought.
Excerpt from
Bonnie Pitman, ed., Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 274.
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Jerry Bywaters was an important voice in the arts in Texas, having trained in Dallas and in the east with Robert Vonnoh, Bruce Crane, and John Sloan. He was a founder of the Dallas Art League, editor of the magazine Southwestern Arts, a critic of the Dallas Morning News, and director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts from 1942 until his retirement in 1964. While many regional artists in the prewar years were painting nostalgic anecdotal visions of America, Bywaters took a different tact. Like a momento mori still life of an earlier century, On the Ranch, is an errie assemblage of detritus cataloguing the history of Texas—from the American Indian symbolized by the arrowhead, to the gun slinger, the cowpoke, the rancher who fenced in the range, and the vanishing inhabitants of Bywaters's own time driven from the ranch perhaps by the blows of depression and drought.
Labels from Dallas Nine folder in the education files.
Exhibition: Lone Star Regionalism :The Dallas Nine and their Circle 1928-1945, February 3, 1985-July 10, 1988
Related Objects
1985.123 Jerry Bywaters, Study for On the Ranch
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826
Place of origin: Southwest (general region/United States): TGN: 4010660
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Historical periods
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PROVENANCE
From 1942: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, E.M. (Ted) Dealy Purchase Prize, Thirteenth 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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- Thomas Hart Benton, Desert Still Life~Check out this similar work created a few years later by one of Bywaters' contemporaries.
- Jerry Bywaters in SMU Digital Collections~Check out hundreds works by this artist in the SMU Central University Libraries Texas Artists: Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper collection.
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FUN FACTS
- The DMA also owns a study for this painting, Study for On the Ranch. (1985.123)
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General Description
Jerry Bywaters was an important voice in the arts in Texas, having trained in Dallas and in the East with Robert Vonnoh, Bruce Crane, and John Sloan. He was a founder of the Dallas Artists League, editor of the magazine Southwestern Arts, a critic for the Dallas Morning News, and director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts from 1942 until his retirement in 1964. While many regional artists in the prewar years were painting nostalgic anecdotal visions of America, Bywaters took a different tack. Like a memento mori still life of an earlier century, On the Ranch is an eerie assemblage of detritus cataloguing the history of Texas—from the American Indian symbolized by the arrowhead, to the gunslinger, the cowpoke, the rancher who fenced in the range, and the vanished inhabitants of Bywaters's own time, driven from the ranch perhaps by the blows of depression and drought.
Excerpt from
Bonnie Pitman, ed., Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 274.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Thomas Hart Benton, Desert Still Life~Check out this similar work created a few years later by one of Bywaters' contemporaries.
- Jerry Bywaters in SMU Digital Collections~Check out hundreds works by this artist in the SMU Central University Libraries Texas Artists: Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper collection.
Notes
This note was started by Erin Pinon, summer 2016 and saved as #incomplete. EAS will submit this #draft after reviewing the associated objects/files.
Text pulled from EAS note-
Jerry Bywaters was an important voice in the arts in Texas, having trained in Dallas and in the east with Robert Vonnoh, Bruce Crane, and John Sloan. He was a founder of the Dallas Art League, editor of the magazine Southwestern Arts, a critic of the Dallas Morning News, and director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts from 1942 until his retirement in 1964. While many regional artists in the prewar years were painting nostalgic anecdotal visions of America, Bywaters took a different tact. Like a momento mori still life of an earlier century, On the Ranch, is an errie assemblage of detritus cataloguing the history of Texas—from the American Indian symbolized by the arrowhead, to the gun slinger, the cowpoke, the rancher who fenced in the range, and the vanishing inhabitants of Bywaters's own time driven from the ranch perhaps by the blows of depression and drought.
Labels from Dallas Nine folder in the education files.
Exhibition: Lone Star Regionalism :The Dallas Nine and their Circle 1928-1945, February 3, 1985-July 10, 1988
Related Objects
1985.123 Jerry Bywaters, Study for On the Ranch
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826
Place of origin: Southwest (general region/United States): TGN: 4010660
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1942: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, E.M. (Ted) Dealy Purchase Prize, Thirteenth 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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