Includes artwork, clippings, correspondence documents, ephemera, photographs, publicity, published works, and scrapbooks chronicling the career of this Dallas artist, who was initially associated with the Texas regionalist artists of the 1930s and 1940s. He also executed numerous murals in public and private buildings in the Southwest as well as designed sets and costumes for the Dallas Little Theatre and other local venues. BSC.2004.0069
Consists of archival material chronicling the history of Nye Galleries (1956-1963) as well as works on paper by artists Otis Dozier, E. G. Eisenlohr, John Guerin, Frank Reaugh, and Hiram Williams. After closing her gallery, Mary Beasley Nye (1916-1998) continued to represent Texas artists until 1983. In addition to the above artists, she exhibited work by Henri Bartscht, Ed Bearden, Ethel Brodnax, Cecil Casebier, Ben Culwell, Wilfred Higgins, DeForrest Judd, Octavio Medellin, Fred Mitcham, Herb Rogalla, Stephen Rascoe, Olin Travis, Dorothy Poulos, Ruth Tears, Broar Utter, and Betty Winn. Her husband, Hermes, was a well-known Dallas attorney, writer, and folk singer. BSC.1999.0052
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.
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