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Hamon Arts Library

A selection of Dylan Glynn’s paintings, works on paper, digital prints, and animated shorts. 

Hamon Arts Library

Guided by a preoccupation with the subjectivity of facts, Elizabeth Moran uses photography, text, sound, and other forms of recorded documentation to examine the reliability of information and how evidence is often far from evident.

Hamon Arts Library

Agents of Change, works by  Arthur Koch, questions about the relationships of the words "natural" and "artificial" and led me to realize that while wood is a natural material, the process I applied to wood was a process that could be considered artificial.

Bridwell Library

Through this exhibition, Bridwell Library is bringing Albert Outler’s intellectual legacy to the attention of a new generation of scholars and church leaders.

DeGolyer Library

Renowned collection Robert Harris marks the bicentennial of Walt Whitman's birth with this exhibit of selected treasures from his collection.

DeGolyer Library

A celebration of the life and work of poet Amy Clampitt, through her correspondence, poetry, and photographs.

DeGolyer Library

This exhibit celebrates Andy Hanson's long career at the Dallas Times Herald, covering society, politics, the performing arts, and the major news events of the day.

Hamon Arts Library

This exhibition turns rivers into lines of connection. Moving and flowing in many directions, these lines form a complex network of images, ideas, sounds, and objects, evoking a symbolic hydrography in the exhibition space. Bodies of water become the conduits of the meanings.

Hamon Arts Library

Dallas-based artist Andrew Douglas Underwood research-based artistic practice explores historic vignettes, examines the notion of perfection, and questions the possibility of objectivity.  

Bridwell Library

This exhibition explores the diversity of archival records held by and hosted by Bridwell Library.

Bywaters Special Collections

In 2013 The Year of the Library Committee put together a meta-exhibition examining the creation of the Post Chiaroscuro: Prints in Color after the Renaissance featuring objects from Bywaters Special Collections.

Hamon Arts Library

ARK is a cinematic installation featuring a film by Michael A. Morris made from archival 35mm film prints held in the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection.

Bridwell Library

Artwork on display throughout Bridwell Library including artifacts, framed drawings, prints, and paintings, sculptures, fine furnishings and decorative arts, and objects for religious use.

Hamon Arts Library

Thomas Gibson Bowles desire was to establish Vanity Fair as a periodical defining the social and cultural life of London in Victorian England.

DeGolyer Library

This exhibit features DeGolyer Library items included in the Meadows Museum's 2021 exhibit, Fossils to Film: The Best of 91ÇÑ×Ó's Collections.

DeGolyer Library

Highlights from DeGolyer Library's collections documenting aspects of the Black experience in America, from the colonial period to the present. 

Bridwell Library

1498 Apocalypse, the Large Passion, and the Small Passion, and works from the last decade of Durer's life. His works reflect his interests in artistic theory and the Protestant Reformation.

Bridwell Library

An expression of Jewish religious traditions through printed books central to their faith, but had to overcome opposition from many quarters.

Bridwell Library

An exhibition celebrating the 20^th anniversary of the Meadows Museum with works from 91ÇÑ×Ó Libraries, departments, and the art collection.

Bridwell Library

This exhibition presents photographs of Chautauqua Lake, the Chautauqua Institution, and Institution leaders taken during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Hamon Arts Library

This show featured Camilla Cowan's prints and paintings, many inspired by molas and other folk art.

Bridwell Library

Manuals of Christian doctrine, catechisms are often organized in the form of questions with accompanying answers to be learned and memorized.

Hamon Arts Library

Sanford's interest in painting is in the experimentation of endless nuances of color combination possibilities, "color is feeling, color has emotional resonance."

Hamon Arts Library

Artwork featured from Constance Lowe’s series Garden City (Air to Ground), FabCom and Chromarray that examines the intersection between natural and human-constructed environments.

Hamon Arts Library

Clear, Deep, Dark features new works by Julie Morel that examines the intersections between text and visual imagery. 

Hamon Arts Library

Collective Practice: Community Building Through Zines presents works by Puro Chingón Collective, with members James Huizar, Claudia Zapata and Claudia Aparicio-Gamundi.

Bridwell Library

This exhibition features images of the Dance of Death popularized in print by Hans Holbein the Younger and his inspirations and future influence.

Hamon Arts Library

Paintings and works on paper by David Dreyer, technical advisor and adjunct professor in 91ÇÑ×Ó’s Division of Studio Art.

Bywaters Special Collections

Judd’s work reflects his study of nature: mountains, lakes, rocks, flowers, cactus, animals, and scenes of everyday life.

Bridwell Library

French personal devotionals from 17th–19th centuries that showcase themes throughout religious texts over time and across languages and borders.

Bridwell Library

Examples in inventory of the nearly 400 Mexican religious imprints owned by Bridwell Library.

Hamon Arts Library

Six photographic collages by Jeffrey Junkin, MFA candidate in photography. 

Bridwell Library

Documents produced between 1911 and 1920 which offer insights into the development of the university and the School of Theology.

Hamon Arts Library

Exhibited in 2012, Dallas artist and museum educator Scott Winterrowd had sketched a wide variety of the landscapes in the American West, including California, New Mexico, Colorado, and the Big Bend region of Texas, working primarily in watercolor.

Bridwell Library

Books from the first century of the Methodism (c. 1739–1839). Included are volumes owned by the Wesley brothers, ministers’ manuscripts, and inscribed texts.

Bridwell Library

This exhibition presents items that document the Methodist movement during its formative years in Texas.

Bridwell Library

Bibles from the 13^th to the 20^th centuries that represent Bible translation into 55 different languages from five continents.

Bridwell Library

Bibles from the collection of Elizabeth Perkins Prothro, who donated nearly five hundred volumes in more than fifty languages to Bridwell Library in 1996.

DeGolyer Library

A celebration of reading and the written word by showcasing photographs of people holding books and other reading material.

Bridwell Library

Religious works printed entirely with copperplates. Created in the 17th and 18th centuries, they were used for instruction, documentation, worship, and devotion.

Hamon Arts Library

Deborah Garwood is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Her work explores the interdependence of nature and culture.

Bridwell Library

Features works by Ifeanyi Anene, Tauba Auerbach, Rick Myers, Adam Pendleton, Maria Veronica San Martin, Haein Song, Shirley Ann Whitaker, and Sam Winston.

DeGolyer Library

Learn about the life and legacy of Carrie Marcus Neiman, cofounder of Neiman Marcus, and other notable women who shaped the legendary fashion and retail destination.

Bridwell Library

Catholic devotional beliefs and practices in Mexico in the 18th and 19th centuries as documented in images, novenas, sacred poetry, and historical accounts.

Bridwell Library

More than fifty books from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century that were written, illustrated, produced, owned, or inspired by women.

Bridwell Library

The accomplishments of Williams, Lyles, Hawkins, Elliott, and Riley who were the first African Americans to graduate from Perkins School of Theology and 91ÇÑ×Ó in 1955. 

Bridwell Library

Bibles that display the historical context, artistic development, and cultural impact of the use of illustration in printed editions of the scriptures. 

Bridwell Library

This exhibition explores religious books specifically written for children that were printed in Europe and America between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century.

Bridwell Library

This exhibition honors the memory of Bishop Francis Asbury by presenting fifteen documents and publications that detail Asbury’s ministry.

Jones Film Collection, Hamon Arts Library

The G. William Jones Film and Video Collection at 91ÇÑ×Ó Libraries supports the communities of the Meadows School of the Arts, the University, and global moving image preservation and research. 

Bridwell Library

Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for Daniel Berkeley Updike’s The Book of Common Prayer. 

Bridwell Library

Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Bridwell Library

Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 

Bridwell Library

Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones.

Bridwell Library

Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for John Graves’ Goodbye to a River.

Bridwell Library

Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for The Imitation of Christ.

Bridwell Library

Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for Bernard C. Middleton’s The Restoration of Leather Bindings. 

Bridwell Library

Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for Doves Press Apocrypha, volume IV. 

Bridwell Library

Bookbinders were invited to submit designs to bind Bridwell Library’s copy of Five Poems by Toni Morrison with silhouettes by Kara Walker.

Bridwell Library

Books and broadsides prohibited by the Catholic Church, indexes of prohibited books or expurgations, and works written in defense of ecclesiastical censorship.

UNDERWOOD LAW LIBRARY

Highlights books from the Underwood Law Library’s McKnight Antiquarian Book Collection that feature medieval and other manuscript fragments recycled as bookbinding covers, spine support, or endpapers.

Bywaters Special Collections

Hidden Treasures of the Mary McCord/Edyth Renshaw Collection on the Performing Arts drew from the extensive collection of significant holdings in the history of theatre, film, music and dance.

Bridwell Library

Highlights from the core collection of the Bible at Bridwell Library. Included are Bibles from the Prothro and Harrison collections.

Bridwell Library

19th century prayer books with handsome or innovative presentations. Included are books with decorative typography, binding, and illustration. 

Bridwell Library

Books for public worship and private devotion that spans eight centuries. The spiritual functions were enhanced by decorations.

Bridwell Library

Early Reformation works of Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Jean Calvin, other sixteenth-century reformers, and Counter-Reformation authors.

Bridwell Library

Works by St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Documents about Christian instruction, canon law, hagiography, and church administration.

Bridwell Library

Books, manuscripts, and archives that have direct historical connections to the founders of Methodism. 

Bridwell Library

Works from fields of early medicine and science, natural history, religious ceremony and private devotion, and nineteenth-century English and American literature.

DeGolyer Library

The story of the transcontinental railroad: a great technological achievement, subject of intense political debate, and critical to the long-term development of the American west.

DeGolyer Library

The enduring appeal of fiction's greatest detective is explored through selections from DeGolyer Library's Donald J. Hobbs Collection, which contains more than 8,000 volumes and translations of the Sherlock Holmes canon in 108 languages.

Hamon Arts Library

The Illusion of Being is a three-person exhibition of photographic works by DFW based artists Lynné Bowman Cravens, Ross Faircloth, and Ashley Whitt. Each artist utilizes lens-based media to investigate notions of reality as perceived by the self.

Bridwell Library

Printed illustrations which were intentionally created as coherent series of images: suites of engravings, illustrated sequences, and sets of prints.

Bridwell Library

Copies of the Imitatio Christi from c. 1472 to 1905. Vernacular translations into English, German, French, Italian, Arabic, and Croatian, and fine modern editions.

Hamon Arts Library

Artist Michael Corris explores art’s role in the process of a city’s identity formation, in particular his relationship to Dallas, Texas and Venice, Italy.

Hamon Arts Library

Artists have used the book as medium for exposing their images and concepts, which in turn challenge the form of the book as an information package and loops back to extend the idea of a book qua book.

Bridwell Library

Works written by Dr. Heitzenrater paired with items from Bridwell Library Special Collections, that highlight the long-term relationship between researcher and library.

Bridwell Library

Manuscripts representing the Christian, Judaic, and Islamic traditions, between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries in multiple continents.

Hamon Arts Library

Building on the research of the PRIDE@91ÇÑ×Ó capstone project, In Search of Belonging explores stories of LGBTQ+ student organizing -- struggles for equality and recognition -- through oral history and archival documents.

Bridwell Library

Books and broadsides printed between c. 1455 and 1500 and their discovery of the power and potential of Gutenberg's invention.

DeGolyer Library

This exhibit explores a "golden age" in baseball, when the Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants dominated, led by some of the most memorable players and managers of all time.

Bridwell Library

The sixteenth-century theologian and reformer Jean Calvin exerted immense influence on the character and practice of Western Christianity.

DeGolyer Library

Explore our collection of historic cookbooks, which served as a storehouse of recipes, as well as a sign of technological, sociological, cultural, and economic changes.

Bridwell Library

This annual competition encourages the publication of local church histories from the eight Annual Conferences within Texas United Methodist Historical Society.

Bridwell Library

This exhibition is evidence of the zeal with which the English King James Bible from 1611 translation was produced, printed, marketed, read, and cherished.

Bridwell Library

Changing roles and identities in the modern dance of death.

Hamon Arts Library

An invitation to viewers to eavesdrop on the conversations between and among the archival digital prints and their paper collage ancestors.

Hamon Arts Library

The photographs in this series document the parallel stories of the lives and rituals of the disappearing population of Jews still living in small enclaves in Eastern Europe.

Hamon Arts Library

The painting process is described as diagramming, mapping, plan/elevation, cross-section, translation/re-translation inquiry (or subverting the clarity these systematic intentions may imply). 

DeGolyer Library

In honor of Valentine's Day, DeGolyer Library put together a sampling of romantic stories, cards, and love letters from the past.

Bridwell Library

Examples of Dean Joseph D. Quillian’s mandala drawings dating from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Bridwell Library

Manuscripts from the 16th-19th centuries including copies of the Quran and later collections of prayers that long have been central to the religious lives of Muslims.

Hamon Arts Library

Williams’ small drawings and studio sketchbooks illuminate his working process of construction and variation of color, shape and line in a simple and intimate manner. 

Bridwell Library

An introduction to Martin Luther and his printed works. Included are polemics and treatises, sermons and commentaries, Bible translations, and catechisms.

Hamon Arts Library

In celebration of the Mexican centennial in 2010, an exhibition of historic books and portfolios from Mexico, part of the Stanley Marcus Collection at 91ÇÑ×Ó’s DeGolyer Library.

Hamon Arts Library

On view in 2005 were 29 individual works by sculptor Michael O’Keefe. These works included 22 small-scale drawings and seven sculptures.  

Bridwell Library

Bibles and other religious texts in indigenous languages published by missionary presses in the nineteenth century.

Bridwell Library

Literature, educational texts, and early New Testaments in Greek that highlight the influence of the Greek language on modern literature and culture. 

Hamon Arts Library

Highly decorative arrangements of shapes embedded with unexpected motifs that are in reference to an enigmatic story continuously changing as it unfolds.

Hamon Arts Library

A glimpse into the Jessica and Kelvin Beachum Family Collection beholds an artistic world of hope, Black joy, reality, and aspiration.

Hamon Arts Library

This exhibition of recent work by Dallas and Monterrey-based artist, Octaviano Rangel is inspired by Franz Kakfa’s Metamorphosis.

Bywaters Special Collections

"A person's art or an artist's work should come from within themselves and of themselves–not be a copy of even their own heritage." Octavio Medellin

Hamon Arts Library

This exhibition showcases Hamon Arts Library holdings related to Octavia Butler’s writing alongside a mixed media installation by Dallas artist Ciara Elle Bryant pertaining to identity, bibliography, and virtuality.

Bridwell Library

Schoeffer’s works from his collaborations with Gutenberg and Fust to his later works including theological works and the Great Law Books.

Hamon Arts Library

Held in conjunction with the annual meeting of The Society for Photographic Education in Dallas, this exhibition featured highlights from the collection of more than 500,000 photographs at 91ÇÑ×Ó’s DeGolyer Library.

Hamon Arts Library

A selection of abstract paintings and drawings by Danielle Kimzey, Mary Laube, and Christopher Reno. These artists explore the private world of the ‘home’ and seek to demystify this insular, domestic space.

Bridwell Library

Works written between the late 17th–early 19th centuries by precursors to and leaders of the Pietist movement in The Netherlands, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.

Hamon Arts Library

This exhibition presents a selection of books on this grand and artful instrument, the organ, from the James L. Wallmann Collection.

Hamon Arts Library

Basil Kincaid’s R3clamation: Routes and Roots is the third iteration of the artist’s Reclamation Project and is, among other things, an intimate examination of his hometown of St. Louis.

Bridwell Library

Meditations, catechisms, calendars, and histories made with the emblem book’s interplay of image, narrative, and couplet to convey Christian doctrine and moral lessons.

Bridwell Library

This exhibition honors the memory of Alfredo Náñez and Clotilde Falcón de Náñez in Methodist history.

Hamon Arts Library

Through a seminar in Renaissance Technology for the Art History graduate students in the Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture (RASC/a) program, the exhibition is a collaboration of ideas and knowledge through the advancement of print and book production 

DeGolyer Library

This exhibit explores the 1884 Presidential election, one of the "dirtiest" campaigns in American history. Now largely forgotten, the campaign issues and scandals will sound familiar to contemporary politics.

Bridwell Library

Books that show the relationships between science and religion ranging from cooperation to conflict to reconciliation.

DeGolyer Library

This exhibits highlights women’s voices and their stories across America’s roadways, as they sought education, adventure, and freedom in the 19th and 20th century.

Hamon Arts Library

Large format black & white landscape photographs range from grand views in the American West to quiet, intimate scenes along streams in the Texas Hill Country.

Bridwell Library

Christian texts that brought new meaning and enhanced understanding to their readers through varieties of shapes, sizes, and configurations. 

Bridwell Library

These bindings exemplify the important stylistic developments of European and North American bookbinding from the late Middle Ages to the present day. 

Hamon Arts Library

Sounding is a site-specific, interactive installation with looping video, text-based instructions, and subtle interventions into the architecture and resources of Hamon Arts Library.

DeGolyer Library

To celebrate the 130th anniversary of The State Fair of Texas, this exhibit highlights Dallas photographer Lynn Lennon an her images of the fair over 10 years.

Bridwell Library

Manuscripts and rare books produced between the twelfth and the eighteenth centuries that celebrated two musical organizations meeting in Dallas in 2019.

Hamon Arts Library

Susan Barnett works originated with paintings based upon a specialized type of Latin Square popularized by the Sudoku puzzle. 

Bridwell Library

Books in which artists or circles of collaborators have integrated corporeal elements of the book form into the literature in sensitive and sometimes astounding ways.

Bridwell Library

Bibles that include a 17th century Chinese Torah scroll, medieval manuscripts, incunabula, translations around the world, and modern fine press editions.

Bridwell Library

Personal papers of three African American United Methodist bishops: Ernest T. Dixon, Jr., William Talbot Handy, Jr., and Rhymes H. Moncure, Jr.

Hamon Arts Library

Tino Ward’s suite of paper pulp paintings depicts symbols from anthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger’s catalog of proto-linguistic signs found in ancient cave paintings, known as “phosphenes.”

Hamon Arts Library

This exhibit brings together two notable collections of posters, flyers, clothing, and ephemera from this highly influential era of pivotal cultural shift in Britain and the United States.

Bridwell Library

Works from British artist Ian Tyson’s (1933—2021) decades-long career.

UNDERWOOD LAW LIBRARY

Historical photographs, architectural designs, and other documents related to the planning, funding, and construction of Underwood Law Library.

Bridwell Library

Publications and images document the Methodist integration, the Methodist-Evangelical United Brethren merger, and the Uniting Conference.

Hamon Arts Library

Wingate says, "the structures in my work are derived from typography and letter construction, printed texts, decorative type ornaments, logos and symbols."

Bridwell Library

Fifty-six items representing twelve digital collections related to the history of the United Methodist Church or Perkins School of Theology. 

Bridwell Library

Rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, prints, and letters that were acquired by Bridwell Library Special Collections between 2008 and 2014.

Hamon Arts Library

The exhibition is an installation of fifteen drawings by artist, Jane Chu. The exhibition centers upon her mother’s journey out of China during the Chinese Revolution of 1949.

Bridwell Library

This display highlights William B. Lawrence’s leadership of Perkins School of Theology and his contributions to theological education and church life.

DeGolyer Library

This exhibit marks the 100^th anniversary of the passage of the 19^th Amendment through documents and collections emphasizing the roles women played in the suffrage movement.

Bridwell Library

Twentieth-century printers and artists endeavored to embody Scripture in a meaningful form.