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Jerry Bywaters Special Collections: D

Ronald L. Davis Collection

Consists of approximately seven linear feet of programs from theatre performances, operas, and other events collected by this long-time SMU faculty member. BSC.2001.0059

Delabano Collection

Consists of three prints by Texas artist Barney Delabano. BSC.2012.0080

Robert John Downs, Jr. Papers

This collection contains archival material such as scripts, letters, programs associated with Dallas resident Robert John Downs, Jr. part in the 1998 production of Sordid Lives by Del Shores at Circle Theatre, Fort Worth. BSC.2017.0087

Mary Frances Doyle Art Work and Papers

Includes clipping files, correspondence, photographs, and works of art on paper related to the career of this charter member of the Texas Printmakers, formed in the early 1940s by several women artists. BSC.1993.0028

Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Artwork and Papers

The papers of Dallas artists Otis and Velma Davis Dozier, consist of a wide variety of archival material totaling approximately fifty linear feet.  The couple was active in the Dallas art scene from the 1920s until shortly before their deaths in the late 1980s.  Otis Dozier at one time taught classes at SMU and was a close friend of SMU professor and former director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Jerry Bywaters; along with Bywaters, he was a member of a circle of artists later dubbed the "Lone Star Regionalists."  Velma Davis Dozier was co-founder of the Dallas School of Creative Arts in 1933 and one of the founders of the Craft Guild of Dallas in 1948, Velma was extraordinary in her pursuit of complicated metal techniques and incorporating them into unique and well-made metalwork and jewelry which today can be seen in the Dozier Study Room at the Dallas Museum of Art. BSC.1991.0022

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The Jerry Bywaters Special Collections Wing is located in the Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library and holds archival materials on visual and performing arts of the American Southwest.