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Metadata
Artist |
Bywaters, Jerry |
Caption |
Gargantua |
Collection |
TMA |
Credit Line |
Gift of Sigmund Balka |
Culture |
American |
Date |
1935 |
Description |
Print of the Lomax House located at 723 W. Oak in Denton, Texas. According to the Bywaters Special Collections Archives at SMU, "Gargantua" is the "first lithograph Bywaters made. He noted the date as Jan. 1, 1935. The images is of the Lomax house. Bywaters established the edition number at 50. Bywaters gave the first print to friend and fellow artist, Alexandre Hogue, in February, 1935, and sold another to Lloyd Rollins, Director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Another was sold to John Rosenfield, art, theater and music critic for the Dallas Morning News. The print won the "Dallas Print and Drawing Collector's Society Purchase Prize" at the Seventh Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. Jerry Bywaters (1906-1989) was born at Paris, Texas, on May 21, 1906. His emergence on the Dallas art scene began after he graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1926 with a degree in comparative literature. Afterward he traveled for two years in France, Spain, Mexico, and New England and studied at the New York Art Students League. When he returned to Dallas, Bywaters found that his contemporaries had similar interests in expressing their native region in art. He became a central figure and spokesman for a group of young artists including Alexandre Hogue, Otis M. Dozier, William L. Lester, Everett Spruce, and others who found inspiration in the Texas landscape. |
Dimensions |
H-12 L-17 inches |
Medium |
Lithograph |
Material |
Paper |
Catalog Number |
2004.07 |
Title |
Gargantua |