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Thanks to the most generous gift of Jerry Bywaters Cochran, the Meadows Museum has recently added more than forty works by Mrs. Cochran’s father, Jerry Bywaters , to its collections. These works, which span the length of Bywaters’s career,...
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Thanks to the most generous gift of Jerry Bywaters Cochran, the Meadows Museum has recently added more than forty works by Mrs. Cochran’s father, Jerry Bywaters, to its collections. These works, which span the length of Bywaters’s career, demonstrate an array of subject matter and a range in medium, from oil paintings and watercolors to pastels, graphite drawings, and prints. “This tremendous gift,” said Director Mark Roglán, “will enhance SMU’s role in preserving the art of this region, and will make us the largest depository for the work of Bywaters, one of Texas's most reknowned artists of the twentieth century. We are deeply grateful for this most thoughtful gift given by Mrs. Cochran.” The Museum has recently recognized Bywaters’s contributions to the art world through two concurrent exhibitions, held in 2007, the centennial of the artist’s birth: Jerry Bywaters: Interpreter of the Southwest and Jerry Bywaters: Lone Star Printmaker. Now, a more tangible acknowledgement of Bywaters’s significance will become a part of the Museum as well. The gifted works will join with other works already in the University Art Collection, including Bywaters’s painting Where the Mountains Meet the Plains (1939), which is considered one of his greatest landscapes, and will significantly augment the University’s holdings of Texas regionalist art.
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