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| Jerry Bywaters |
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| Jerry Bywaters |
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| Jerry Bywaters |
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| Jerry Bywaters |
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| Jerry Bywaters |
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| Jerry Bywaters |
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| Jerry Bywaters |
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| Jerry Bywaters |
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| Jerry Bywaters |
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| Jerry Bywaters |
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| Jerry Bywaters |
Professor Jerry Bywaters (1906-1989) served for thirty-five years as a faculty member in Southern Methodist University’s Division of Fine Arts and as Director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts from 1943 to 1964.
Underlying all of Bywaters’ work was some perspective on the interaction of people and the land, whether the land served as a source of livelihood, a stage for historical events, a backdrop for architecture, or simply as a source of artistic inspiration. For Bywaters, familiarity with the natural world and incorporating it and its effects were basic to his art.
In a 1928 letter explaining his decision to work as a studio -- instead of a commercial -- artist, Bywaters reminded his father that “I must be out of doors.” Landscape afforded Bywaters an avenue of experimentation with media and he worked with equal ability in oil, watercolor, and pastel. Although his artistic heyday was the ten-year period from 1933-1943, when he was able to travel frequently to Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and West Texas, Bywaters continued depicting landscapes long after he had turned away from other subjects.
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