The Jerry Bywaters Special Collections on the second floor of the Hamon Arts Library at Southern Methodist University houses several collections on the visual and the performing arts.  The collections center on the twentieth-century history of the arts in Dallas and the Texas region.  In addition to a substantial collection of works of art and other documents of Jerry Bywaters, former Director of the Dallas Museum of Art (1943 – 1964) and long-time SMU art faculty, the BSC holds the archives of several Texas artists, including Charles Bowling, Mary Doyle, Otis and Velma Davis Dozier, E. G. Eisenlohr, DeForrest Judd, William Lester, Evaline Sellors, Olin Travis, Octavio Medellin, Janet Turner, and Henry Potter.  Other collections include the correspondence of nineteenth-century French painter, Rosa Bonheur, the Greer Garson Collection, McCord/Renshaw Collection on the Performing Arts, and music collections.  The staff includes two curators and an archivist.

Contact Details
Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library
Central University Libraries
Southern Methodist University
P. O. Box 750356
Dallas, Texas 75275-0356
Phone: 214-768-2894
Fax: 214-768-1800
Web site: http://smu.edu/cul/hamon/

Overview
The Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library opened in fall 1990 under the Central University Libraries system at Southern Methodist University. The circulating and reference collection contains over 180,000 items on the visual and performing arts. The Library also has a collection that includes over 300 periodicals and access to more than forty online resources specific to the arts. The art and art history print collection is strong in Iberian, classical, medieval, Renaissance, and nineteenth-century through late twentieth-century art.

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The Wittliff Collections
Alkek Library
Texas State University-San Marcos
601 University Drive
San Marcos, Texas 78666
office: 512-245-2313
fax: 512-245-7431
email: thewittliffcollections@txstate.edu
website: http://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu

The Kimbell Art Museum Library opened in 1967. Its collection consists of 42,000 books; 4,800 bound periodicals with subscriptions to 155 current periodicals; 17,000 auction catalogues, plus microfiche collections, including the Witt Library Collection and Deloynes Collection; microfilms; and online-research databases.

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Visual Resources Center
Department of Art & Design
601 University Drive
Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas
tel: 512-245-8470
fax: 512-245-7969

Coordinator
Julia Z. Deal, M.A.
512-245-1787
jd35@txstate.edu
VRC Web site:
http://www.finearts.txstate.edu/Art/resources/vrc.html
VRC slide show:
http://www.finearts.txstate.edu/Art/resources/vrc/slideshow.html

Contact Details

Visual Resources Collection
School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, B7500
Austin TX, 78712-0222

Phone: 512.471.0143
Web site

Physical Location:
Sutton Hall, Room 3.128

The Visual Resource Collection is located within the Technical Reference Center, the architectural reference library supported by the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. The collection functions principally as a teaching resource for faculty within the college, but also serves faculty outside of the college and grants limited access to students. The collection consists of almost 152,000 35 mm slides and over 36,000 digital images of primarily art and architecture.

Contact Details

Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries,
The University of Texas at Austin
PO Box P (BTL200 S5430)
Austin, TX 78713-8916 USA
Telephone: 512-495-4621
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/

Contact Details

Green Art Research Library
The Old Jail Art Center
201 S. 2nd St.
Albany, TX 76430
Phone: 325-762-2269
Email: archivist@theoldjailartcenter.org
Web site (library): http://www.theoldjailartcenter.org/libarch/library.htm
Web site (museum): http://www.theoldjailartcenter.org