Jerry Bywaters
1906 – 1989
BORN IN
Paris, Texas
KNOWN FOR
Landscape, portrait, and still life painter, lithography, mural
NAME VARIATIONS
Williamson Gerald Bywaters
Born at Paris, Texas, Jerry Bywaters moved to Dallas in 1917. He studied at Southern Methodist University, the Dallas Art Institute, and the Art Students League in New York. He helped found the Dallas Artists League and the Lone Star Printmakers and exhibited in most of the major Texas art exhibitions held before World War II.
In 1942 Bywaters became Director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, a post he held until 1964. The Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest is housed in the Hamon Library at Southern Methodist University.
