"Ellen Buie Niewyk's work brings to light new information and 
valuable primary resource material about Jerry Bywaters as a 
printmaker and illustrator, as well as his role as a promoter of 
printmaking in Texas. Niewyk decodes the scrawled notebook 
Bywaters kept for years about his printmaking oeuvre from 1935 
to 1948. As interest in Texas art continues to grow among art 
collectors, this book will serve as a necessary reference text."
—Francine Carraro, author of Jerry Bywaters: A Life in Art 

"An eye-opening look at the early Dallas art scene and the 
prominent role Jerry Bywaters played within it."—David Dike, 
director, David Dike Fine Art

"The publication of Jerry Bywaters, Lone Star Printmaker marks 
an important moment in the history of Texas art. It is the first true 
catalogue raisonné of a Texas printmaker and serves as a 
benchmark for all others to follow. Niewyk has chronicled the life 
of Dallas's most enthusiastic proponent of the Texas Regionalist 
movement and his role in the creation of the Lone Star Printmakers. 
This book is an important research tool for anyone interested in the 
development of Texas art in the 1930s and 40s."—Kevin Vogel, 
director, Valley House Gallery
 
Representing the first comprehensive overview of Jerry Bywaters's 
prints and printmaking career, Niewyk's study will serve as an 
introduction to the artist's work with lithographic and block prints. 
Art historians and collectors interested in Texas art will find it an 
invaluable reference tool.

    Thirty-four black-and-white lithographs and five full-color block 
prints are reproduced, in addition to Bywaters's book illustrations, 
many of his ephemeral works, and photographs of the artist and his 
subjects.

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ELLEN BUIE NIEWYK is curator of the Bywaters Special 
Collections housed in the Hamon Arts Library at Southern Methodist 
University. RON TYLER is director of the Amon Carter Museum of 
Art. Jerry Bywaters hired MARY VERNON in 1967 to teach art at 
Southern Methodist University, where she is teaching still. 
FRANCES BEARDEN was Jerry Bywaters's secretary in his early 
years as director of the Dallas Museum of Art; she is the widow of 
Ed Bearden, an artist in Bywaters's circle.