Facilities: The Division of Art History belongs to a comprehensive university with strong graduate and undergraduate programs. We are a part of the Meadows School of the Arts, surrounded by the creative and performing arts and located in a dynamic region of the country that has fine museums and galleries.

The Meadows Museum, located on the SMU campus, exhibits one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain, including works by such masters as El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, Montañes, Murillo, Goya, Sorolla, Picasso, Gris, Miró and Tápies. The Elizabeth Meadows Sculpture Collection includes important works by such modern sculptors as Rodin, Maillol, Lipschitz, Henry Moore, Marini, Giacometti, Noguchi, David Smith and Claes Oldenburg.

Other museums in the Dallas/Fort Worth area include the Amon Carter Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Kimbell Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center.

With holdings of almost three million volumes, the SMU libraries comprise the largest private library system in the Southwest. They include the four-story Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library, adjacent to the Owen Arts Center and housing all arts library collections, an audio/visual center and the Center for Instructional Technology in the Arts. The G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, a part of the library's holdings, is housed in the Greer Garson Theatre's 3,800-square-foot refrigerated storage vault, with screening rooms also in the building.

The Bridwell Library is comprised of over 320,000 volumes in world and regional Methodism, early and fine printing, art of the book and archaeological publications on East Mediterranean lands. It is one of the leading theological research collections in the United States. Combining a large and diverse theological library with a remarkable rare book collection that supports those theological holdings, Bridwell Library is a rich and unique resource for research by art history students and faculty.

Two other special collections at SMU serve as important resources to the Division of Art History. The Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest contains 75,000 holdings, including catalogs, clippings, correspondence, photographs, slides, mural studies, and works of art on paper. The DeGolyer Library contains over 90,000 volumes with particular strength in Southwest literature and history, the Spanish borderlands and transportation history.

The Lady Tennyson d'Eyncourt Slide Library holds a collection of over 250,000 slides. It contains a strong general survey of art and architecture, covering many Western and non-Western cultures, and ranging from pre-historic through contemporary times. It serves as a teaching and research resource for Meadows, as well as the University as a whole.

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