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(right) Raymond, ¡Saludos! are extensively represented in the Wittliff Gallery, tells the (left) Sally Wittliff, 1991, Keith Carter The power of art in life is a story of a cleaning woman who said to him that in the the Bill Wittliff, Dawn Jones, Tommy Lee recurring motif here at the building where she worked there was one of his pictures— Jones, Sam Shepard, THANK YOU Collections, vividly set an old blind man petting a bunch of tiny kittens that were in & John Graves to all contributors forth once again by Graci- his lap and crawling over his shirt—eyes not open yet, blind of (seated)* who made gifts ela Iturbide in her book, like him. An edgy, unsentimental portrait that nevertheless Spirit (center) Emcee this fiscal year for Evan Smith, editor- Eyes to Fly With, upcoming reaches into every single chamber of your heart. She told general support or in-chief of TEXAS in the Wittliff Gallery Keith that she looked at it each day before she started work MONTHLY** to sponsor specific Series (p. 12). In the rare because it made her feel so good. anniversary gala projects: Place (below) revelatory text she ex- The life-changing power of art is not for the practition- Debbie & Jim # Azadoutioun Epperson, president plains how, after the death ers of art alone—it’s for all of us. Our job at the Collections raises almost $300,000 Foundation # of AT&T Texas** of her young daughter, she is to gather, preserve, and reveal art to the people who come Becky Beaver & became obsessed with photographing the dead and dying, here. We do this in the knowledge and delight that we are *photo by John Duncan Robert Godwin # Broadway National death with all its trappings, until one day the funeral agents of transformation in a venerable line of work. ON SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2006, with the **photo by Michael Murphy Bank # Charles & procession she was photographing came upon a corpse I’d like to close with a brief tribute to a treasured support of presenting sponsors AT&T and Barbara Chadwell sprawled in their way on the footpath, skull and bones employee of many years, Tina Ybarra, the SWWC’s often Public Strategies, Inc., Texas State University- # Ann Marie Ellis picked almost bare by flocks of birds—the very epitome of unsung archives assistant and “accessioner.” She earned a San Marcos brought “The Spirit of Place” to # Kathryn Eoff # dead. She began photographing the corpse, perfect symbol degree at Texas State in her spare time (!) and has gone on the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin with an Terry & Mary Ellen of the death she had shadowed for five long years; and just to a new career. We miss her, but she left us her elaborate evening that celebrated the images, literature # Etherton Sam & as she did so, all the birds rose up in a cloud above her, and and effective system of work, honed during six years of and legends of the Southwest and Mexico, and # Kristin Fason Cissie her camera followed them, leaving death behind and thought and effort and collaboration. Mary García, also a honored the vision and creativity of Bill and Sally Wittliff. Sam Shepard, Frances Nail, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lyle & Dillon Ferguson # carrying her to a new place and a new artistic pursuit, her valued staff member of many years, will take on the task for Twenty years ago, the Wittliffs founded the South- Lovett, G.W. Bailey, and Tommy Lee Jones lent their best Cina & Mark Forgason GALA COMMITTEE which she has now trained with the best. A fond hasta luego # # grief at last overwhelmed by her art. western Writers Collection (SWWC) at Texas State, and ten talents to the show. The SWWC houses extensive archives Kent Hamilton Honorary Co-Chairs Keith Carter, a world-class photographer whose works to Tina and muy bienvenida to Mary! # —Connie Todd years later they established the Wittliff Gallery of South- gifted by Sam Shepard as well as significant materials Luan & Kent Haynes John Graves # # western & Mexican gifted by Tommy Lee Jones and Jerry Jeff Walker. Shelby Hearon Ann Richards Photography (WG). This Shepard presented three excerpts from his own work, Hobby Family Founda- Event Co-Chairs # tion Nancy & Bob PRESENTING SPONSORS anniversary event was also and Nail, Lovett, Bailey (a Texas State alumnus), and Jones Mary Margaret Farabee # # Inman James Key THANK YOU! testimony to how far these read from the writings of Katherine Anne Porter, Winifred Janis Pinnelli # Rae Lewis Carolyn two institutions have Sanford, Larry L. King and Bud Shrake, and John Graves, Event Committee # # Love Jean Mather come in their brief history. respectively—all authors collected by the SWWC. Walker Rebecca Cohen Don & Mary Morgan The gala committee, led sang three songs, including his classic “Mr. Bojangles.” Eleanor Crook # Nona Niland Spirit of Place Sponsors PRINCIPAL PROMOTIONAL SPONSOR SILVER SPONSORS by Mary Margaret Farabee The readings spoke to the breadth and depth of the Elizabeth Crook # Duncan & Betty and Janis Pinnelli, donated SWWC archives, while a slideshow of Wittliff Gallery Donna Hill # Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld Osborne Dianna Tommy Lee Jones # Chuck & Susan Bailey their time and effort to images, a short film about the Collections, and scores of Richards Eddie Retta Kelley create an unforgettable photographs donated to the auction by many artists Safady # Katharine Guy Bob & Cindy Buschman PLATINUM SPONSORS Ecky Malick # evening. The event was collected by the WG gave guests a sense of its visual Salzmann Denise Chartwells Dan Matheson # designed to evoke “the holdings. Bud Shrake, whose papers are also housed at the Smart Bill & Dody Stephen L. Clark Gallery Barbara Morgan # Spencer Stan & Liz Mary Lockwood Crouch spirit of place” unique to SWWC, closed out the evening with a special tribute to Elizabeth Nash # Starrett Still Water Ray & Mary Margaret Farabee / Texas, Mexico and the Bill and Sally. (continued on p. 4) Jan Pickle # Foundation Patty & GOLD SPONSORS Mr & Mrs Lawrence Tilton Southwest, showcasing Peggy Pickle # Jake Sullivan Texas Betsy & Hughes Abell Ed & Gayle Jones / ARC Systems the authors and artists Jean Rather Commission on the Deborah & Dan Bullock Mara Levy / Rebecca & Gary Cohen housed by the Writers Collection and Wittliff Gallery. This Amalia Rodriguez- Arts # Time Warner Don & Kathryn Counts Elizabeth & Chuck Nash / Capitol Chevrolet served the goal of introducing new friends to the literature, Mendoza Cable # William P. film, music, and photography held by these two important Eddie Safady # Frost Bank Pentagram Design / University of Texas Press Wright Melba & Ted Gabrielle de Kuyper # Deborah Green Peggy Pickle / Jan Pickle repositories of regional culture, and forwarded their Whatley Greg & Sheshunoff Cynthia Keever / Lowell Lebermann Ratliff Law Firm / Bracewell & Guiliani LLP missions to collect and preserve it through the long term. Peggy Wilkinson Evan Smith Over 450 guests attended the gala evening, which Sue Brandt McBee Gabrielle de Kuyper Sheshunoff / Margot & Grant Thomas Jare Smith included a cocktail reception, gourmet dinner, silent Janis & Joe Pinnelli Mr & Mrs Ernest E. Smith Cathy Supple John Scanlan Time Warner Cable auction, and star-studded program. Evan Smith, editor-in- Paul Supple ON THE COVER Sunny & Shelton Smith Wells Fargo Private Bank chief of TEXAS MONTHLY, served as emcee for the Bonnie Tilton Sparrow, from the evening. The magazine’s complete production archives are Naturagraphia series, Cathy Supple / CD3 Discgear / Dan Matheson Suzanne & Marc Winkelman Reid & Susan Wittliff 1987, Kate Breakey 2 Jim & Elizabeth Wiatt / William Morris Agency Mr & Mrs Reid Wittliff / Barbara Morgan & Jerry Galow one of the largest SWWC holdings. 3 Caryl Yontz IN THE NEWS McMurtry & Diana Ossana # Wyatt EXHIBITS # # ON THE ROAD # February: Art Chap- McSpadden Rodrigo Moya Willie Nelson “ # # man reviewed the Dobie Michael & Elizabeth O’Brien Sean Perry # A Certain Alchemy: exhibit for the Fort # Holly Reed # Ken Rosenthal # John wasThe a magical Spirit evening, of and Place very much Photographs by Keith Worth Star-Telegram. Scanlan # Rocky Schenck # John Sepich # Carter will be at Middle # April: Dave Davies Sam Shepard # Bud Shrake # Andrew Smith in keeping with the unique atmosphere Tennessee State Univer- interviewed Steve Davis Gallery # Shelton Smith # Julie Speed # sity’s Baldwin Photo for TPR’s Texas Matters. D J Stout # Connie Todd # Uchi Restaurant / of the Collections themselves. I am Gallery Sept. through # May: Austin Ameri- Express Alterations # The University of Texas looking forward to the next event.” Oct. #Vaquero: can-Statesman ran Jeff Press # Kathy Vargas # Michael Vilim & Genesis of the Texas Salomon’s “Head South- Mirabelle Restaurant # Bob Wade # Jerry Jeff — BARBARA MORGAN Cowboy photographs by west to San Marcos for & Susan Walker # Gordon Walser # Barbara executive director, Austin Film Festival Bill Wittliff shows at the a 20th Anniversary.” # Mathews Whitehead # Jonathan Williams # Beeville Art Museum Brian Villalobos paid Kenneth Grey Wilson # Geoff Winning- Sept. 1 to Dec. 31. # tribute to the Dobie ham # Bill & Sally Wittliff # Mariana The Pearce Collections exhibit in the San Yampolsky. Museum at Navarro Antonio Current. And a special thanks to Amanda College will show # June: the Dobie exhibit appeared in (continued from p. 3) The fine art and literature-focused silent Buschman, Steve Clark, Walker Clark, Bob Currie Lonesome Dove: The “For the Road” in Texas auction featured 120 items up for bid. Highlights were a & vcYES Productions, Robert Godwin, Fabienne Making of an American Highways # Robert trio of signed Lonesome Dove film scripts that sold for Harford, David Layton, Michael Murphy, Leigh Classic, with Wittliff’s Godwin’s Spirit of Place $12,500, a signed first-edition set of Cormac McCarthy’s Walker and the staff at the Four Seasons Hotel, prints, Oct. 1 to Dec. 1. Gala photos made West Border Trilogy that went for $2,800, and a Fender acoustic Michael Vilim and Mirabelle Restaurant; and from # A dozen of Kate Austin News, Austin guitar signed by Willie Nelson that fetched $2,800. Texas State University, we thank Dr. Denise Trauth, Breakey’s Small Deaths American-Statesman, Graciela Iturbide’s Mujer ángel / Angel Woman sold for Dr. C. Van Wyatt, and Joan Heath. photo works will be at and Austin Monthly. $2,900, and a photogravure portfolio of Vaquero photo- Through our generous event sponsors, auction the Amarillo Museum # July: Michael Hall’s graphs by Bill Wittliff went for $5,000. In all, over donors, guests, and contributors, “The Spirit of of Art Nov. 10 to Dec. article “Body of Work,” $100,000 was raised from the silent auction alone. Place” Gala raised almost $300,000 for the SWWC 31, and the entire 62- with photos by Jeff Our sincere gratitude goes to these artists and friends and WG collections. These funds are earmarked for image series will be at Wilson, was featured in for donating items to the silent auction: (continued below) endowment and acquisitions. # ADDITIONAL THANKS the newly renovated Art TEXAS MONTHLY. # Museum of South Texas Jim Vertuno’s AP story The Austin American-Statesman in Corpus Christi Jan. on the Collections through Mar. 31, 2007. made a host of Texas Gala floral arrangements courtesy of # Wittliff’s La vida papers, was picked up “ but this one was special. by, among others, the Auction framing by brinca photographs will Washington Post, TheGalas crowd was comegreat, the andtalent fabulous, go, and the cause important.” be at Hope College, MI, Chicago Tribune, and for a one-month run Gala printing by The Lithoprint Company MSNBC’s website, then — EVAN SMITH, Spirit of Place gala emcee Oct. 19 to Nov. 17— crossed the border into this is the first traveling Canada, including the venue to exhibit his Vancouver Sun and # Yolanda Andrade # Mary Jane Appel # The (opposite page, top, l to r) Committee Co-chairs Mary Margaret tragaluz (“light- Montreal’s The Gazette. Austin Film Festival # Kate Bergquist # Jayne Farabee and Janis Pinelli with Texas State President Denise Trauth* swallowing”) pinhole # The La vida brinca Hinds Bidaut # Kate Breakey # Keith & Pat (left) Bill Wittliff and Bud Shrake at the end of program** images. # El ojo fino / exhibit was reviewed in Carter # Fran Christina # Neil Coleman / (this page, top) House Rep. Mark Strama and wife Crystal, The Exquisite Eye has ZOOM, published out photographer Robb Kendrick, Julia Smith, and Jeannie Ralston** Pro-Jex Gallery # Nancy Coplin & Bruce returned from the Mid- of Italy. Willenzik # Jim Dauterive & Mike Judge # (middle, l to r) Lyle Lovett, Sam Shepard, Bill Wittliff, Tommy Lee America Arts Alliance # October: Listen for Jones, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Edwin “Bud” Shrake* David Everett # Fonda San Miguel Restaurant after a three-year run. Connie Todd and Bill (above, left) Francis Nail read from Katherine Anne Porter’s story # Ragan Gennusa # John & Jane Graves # # To learn more about Wittliff in a four-part “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”** George & Lisa Hallmark # Robin Hix # our traveling exhibit radio series on Willie (above, right) G.W. Bailey read from the correspondence of Larry L. # # Nelson by the BBC. Graciela Iturbide Jeffrey’s Restaurant King and Bud Shrake* program, call Asst. # # # Mara Levy’s article Tommy Lee Jones Robb Kendrick Larry (right) Billy & Dodee Crockett in the auction’s Room of Photographs** Curator Carla Ellard at # # on the WG appears in L. King Debbie Little-Wilson Jean Mather (512) 245-1399, or visit # # # Art Lover’s Guide, 06/07. 4 Tim McCanlies Tom McConnell Larry *photo courtesy of Robert Godwin / **photo courtesy of Michael Murphy 5 www.wg.txstate.edu. THURSDAY, the Dobie materials recovered by OUR VISITORS NOVEMBER 9 Bill Wittliff in 1985. The note- ARE SAYING... PLEASE JOIN US books of Pulitzer Prize-winning Although I’ve lived in for a reception, panel dramatist Sam Shepard include town five years, this discussion, and book hundreds of pages of notes that was my first visit. signing, in celebration represent nascent ideas, some of It definitely won’t be my last. of our 20th anniversary which then become rough drafts exhibition Treasures of —D.D., San Marcos OF THE of Shepard’s works. The world- the Southwestern Writers wide influence of Southwestern Putting these [Lone- Collection. This free some Dove items] on literature is evidenced in the evening event will begin TTREASUREREASURESS display and sharing display of foreign-language at 6:30 pm, with the them is extremely panel at 7:30, followed SOUTHWESTERN WRITERS editions of books by Texas important. Thank you by a book signing. authors—in Japanese, French, for keeping the art of SARAH BIRD, Russian, Italian, and many movies alive for all to COLLECTION others. ELIZABETH CROOK, see even after the and STEPHEN The exhibit brings together viewing of the film is HARRIGAN—three A 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION artifacts from recent archival over. —Anonymous leading Texas novelists acquisitions. “One of the largest Thank you for captur- with archives in the pieces is the dry-erase white- ing what words cannot SWWC—will be board from the TV series King of say. —K.W., student discussing their work catalytic moments when the writer makes a the Hill,” says Davis. “This intro- Incredible pictures and and signing their latest breakthrough,” says SWWC Assistant duces a new generation to the enriching experience. books: The Flamenco Curator Steve Davis, who curated the richness of Southwestern culture Developed a deeper Academy (Bird), The exhibit. “Sometimes this and our archival holdings, and understanding of the Night Journal (Crook), conditions in Mexico and Challenger Park happens as a result of it also gives some sense of and the struggle against (Harrigan). good editorial advice, the complexity and teamwork such as the letters involved in creating a series.” poverty. Books will be for sale that Jacqueline Ken- Todd adds, “By exhibiting —A.B., Portland, OR at the event, courtesy It’s interesting to come of the Texas State nedy Onassis sent to from far away and see University Bookstore. Elizabeth Crook, or produced film—but also all the documentation and the wonderful feed- iconography that led to the product’s creation. We can photographs from my PLEASE RSVP to country. back that Tom Hanks often see the artist’s hastily jotted down or recorded ideas as southwesternwriters@ —A.R., Mexico, D.F. txstate.edu, or gave to Bill Broyles on they become before our very eyes a completed work of art. Awesome collection. call (512) 245-2313. TREASURES OF THE SOUTHWESTERN WRITERS an early draft of the Cast Away screen- It’s like literary DNA.” Wish I had more time to COLLECTION, an eagerly awaited exhibit showcasing play. And then there are the times when Treasures of the Southwestern sit. —S.B., Omaha, NB more than a hundred remarkable artifacts from its the artist makes the breakthrough on his Writers Collection also presents literature, music, and film archives, is a fitting tribute to the or her own. In this exhibit you’ll see things unique items that provide Thank you, Steve and Connie, for everything! (above) La relación y Collection’s 20th anniversary. like the changes Bill Wittliff made to his insight into major figures in You taught us so much comentarios, 1555, Álvar High-profile items on display include a rare 1555 first draft of The Perfect Storm, which Southwestern letters. The Larry Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and inspired us along edition of Cabeza de Vaca’s La relación y comentarios (the shows how writers gain power through McMurtry screen treatment that the way. This is a true (center) Larry L. King’s first written work on what is now Texas and the their ability to rewrite, rather than became his novel, Lonesome Emmy Award, 1981 Texas treasure! Southwest); the hand-made songbook created by Willie to simply write.” Dove, shows the cross-genre (opposite, top) Lonesome —K.C., Greenville, TX Nelson as an 11-year-old boy; a fiddle played by King of Curator Connie Todd adds, beginnings of this Pulitzer archives from popular culture, we make our Dove shooting script The Dobie exhibit cover, signed by all 76 Western Swing Bob Wills; John Graves’s canoe paddle from “Archives like ours are uniquely able Prize-winning classic. The Col- audience aware that some—I emphasize booklet and invitation credited cast members the Brazos River trip he famously chronicled in Goodbye to to apprehend these critical, lection’s founding archive, of some—of what they see on television contains are beautiful.... In fact, (opposite, middle) a River; the Emmy Award won by Larry L. King for his and often ephemeral, J. Frank Dobie, is repre- deeply insightful commentaries on the they inspired me to go Cover of Songs by Willie Nelson, Waco Texas, ca. documentary on the Texas Legislature, The Best Little State- moments, because we sented by a diary he kept Southwest, which, at their best, transcend the out and buy [Dobie’s] 1943, Willie Nelson house in Texas; and a copy of the Lonesome Dove screenplay collect not only the while attending Columbia regional and ascend to the universal.” Voice of the Coyote. (below) Katherine Anne signed by every cast member with a speaking role! finished product of the University in 1913-1914. Treasures of the Southwestern Writers —S.W.A., Bertram, TX Porter, bronze, 8.25"h, Yet Treasures is more than a “greatest hits” exhibit. “It creative process—that Dobie later believed he Collection is on display through December 15. Fantástico! Gracias por 1986, by renowned also highlights an essential point in the Collection’s mission is, the published book, had destroyed this diary, Join us November 9 for the exhibit reception sculptor Glenna las fotos! # Goodacre 6 by offering insights into the creative process, capturing those the recorded story, the but it was found among and a special program (see the sidebar, left). 7 —S.B., Riverside, CA 9/11 by Antonio Turok

Turok shot 9/11 the afternoon of the attack on the World Trade Center, when Building 7 fell after the collapse of the two towers: “I was in the area of the Woolworth Building (pictured), fighting to breathe through the debris, which appears as smoke or fog. The light was so strange, I looked up to see what was happening and saw the reflection—which was amazing enough—but then Building 7 came down and flocks of birds scattered as more debris flew.” Born in Mexico City in 1955, Turok has photographed through- out Central America and southern Mexico for over two decades and has published two books, Imágenes de Nicaragua (Images of Nicaragua, 1988) and Chiapas: El fin del silencio (1998). He is a winner of the 1994 Mother Jones Interna- tional Documentary Photography Award and recipient of Guggenheim Founda- tion and the U.S./ Mexico Fund for Culture grants for his work in Chiapas. Turok was the only photog- rapher to take images of the Zapatista Nation- al Liberation Army as they occupied the colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas in 1994. He also was the first to photograph Sub-commandante Marcos. He lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. 100 YEARS of latino presence at texas state

(right) Maria Elena September 15th with the opening of The month-long celebration will THE LITERATURE OF THE LONE STAR STATE has and illustrations. Hecho en Tejas offers a mosaic portrait of Zamora, the first Latina the exhibition, which will showcase conclude at the LBJ Student Center on long attracted local, regional, and national audiences, yet the community, the land and its history, its people’s to enroll at Texas State DOBIE DAY! (from the 1906 the history of Latinos at the university Saturday, October 14th with a sym- the state’s Mexican American voices have yet to receive sorrows and joys, anger and humor and pride. Pedagogue yearbook) and feature an accompanying histor- posium from 8:15 am to 5:00 pm, the attention they deserve. Gilb is the author of five books, including the A crowd of over 200 ical booklet. The exhibit highlights Tejano Leadership in Mexican and In recognition of this, the Southwestern Writers PEN/Hemingway Award-winning The Magic of Blood. He met at the South- current faculty, students, staff, alumni, Revolutionary Texas, and an evening Collection invited award-winning writer Dagoberto Gilb is a professor of English at Texas State University-San western Writers Collec- and organizations on campus, and finale from 6:00 to 9:00 pm, Fiesta de to edit the first-ever anthology of works by Mexican Marcos. Southwestern Writers Collection Book Series tion on April 8 for the “Dobie Day” symposi- 471 looks back across the years to 1906 Cien Años, with dinner, entertainment, American writers from Texas. The result, Hecho en Tejas: Editors are Curator Connie Todd and Assistant Curator um held in conjunction photographs are held when the first Latinos joined the and a silent auction. For more infor- An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature, is forthcoming Steve Davis. Hecho en Tejas is due November 7. For more in the Wittliff Gallery’s with the recent exhibit, student body. mation, contact the Center at (512) from the University of New Mexico Press this November, information, visit the University of New Mexico Press RUSSELL LEE J. Frank Dobie: Mr. The research conducted for the 245-2361, or visit www.txstate.edu/ as the eleventh volume in the Southwestern Writers online at: www.unmpress.com. # COLLECTION, 137 Texas. At 10:00, the exhibit will be preserved in the mcgs/latino_presence. # —Center for of which are vintage morning program began (printed within two booklet, not only for the university Multicultural and Gender Studies, with an interview of Bill years of creation). ON SEPTEMBER 15, an exhibition archives but also to serve as a Dr. Sandra Mayo, Director Wittliff by Asst. SWWC Russell Lee (1903– entitled The Latino Presence at Texas significant tool in recruiting faculty Curator Steve Davis. An 1986) is best known State University-San Marcos: Celebrat- and students, thus supporting the extended question and for many of the ima- ing 100 Years opens at the Wittliff university’s goal of achieving HSI answer period followed ges that defined the Gallery, and runs through October 14. (Hispanic Serving Institution) status. Bill Wittliff’s comments, with several members Great Depression in This event is part of a Hispanic The kick-off reception, also on forthcoming in the SWWC book series the consciousness of Hecho enTejas of the audience rising to History Month celebration sponsored September 15, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the American public. give personal accounts by the Center for Multicultural and the Wittliff Gallery, includes an He then enjoyed a of their own experi- Gender Studies at Texas State, under address by keynote speaker Raymund Collection Book Series. long and distinguished ences with Mr. Dobie. the direction of Dr. Sandra Mayo and Paredes, Texas Commissioner of Hecho en Tejas is a historic After a break for a light career as a govern- WHAT I HAVE TRIED TO DO is make Hecho ment and freelance a 30-person committee that includes Higher Education, and entertainment anthology that establishes the buffet lunch and exhibit photographer and faculty, staff, and students at the by Texas State’s award-winning canon of Mexican American liter- en Tejas a strong, good read. Not simply as an viewing, the afternoon university. Mariachi band. The reception is free ature in Texas. With almost one program got underway professor of photog- anthology, a collection of different writers and raphy, contributing to The festivities begin on Friday, and open to the public. hundred selections chosen, the with presentations from numerous print publi- book reaches back to the styles, but as a book with chapters, so that all Mark Busby, Cathy cations. Since 1996, sixteenth-century exploration Supple, William T. the voices might form one story, from one Pilkington, and Paul C. the Russell Lee Collec- narrative—the first words written Stone. A forthcoming tion at the Wittliff about Texas—Spanish words by family's history. That is, from the front pages Gallery has grown issue of the journal authors debut NEW WORK Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. It to the back, for those who already know a through donations Southwestern American features prose by Américo from his widow Jean little or a lot about this Texas literature, the Literature will publish # Paredes and Jovita González, Lee, Dow Chapman, CHECK OUT THESE NEW BOOKS STEPHEN HARRIGAN: the “Dobie Day” book will make them even more proud of the Wally Ellinger, and (published between January and Challenger Park (Knopf) Rolando Hinojosa and Tomás presentations along June, 2006), by authors with Rivera, Estela Trambley Portillo with additional essays Bill and Sally Wittliff, # LARRY L. KING: In Search of talent, culture, and story, while for those who and, with the help of a archives in the Southwestern Writers and Sandra Cisneros. Among the on Dobie. Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of Readers) will find most or all of the material new, yes, Texas State Library Collection: poets are Ricardo Sánchez, Carmen Tafolla, Ángela de a Legendary Writer and Editor and Archives Commis- # JAN REID (with Lou Dubose): Hoyos, and Abelardo “Lalo” Delgado. they may find a particular poet or writer they # JUDY ALTER: Sue Ellen Learns to (PublicAffairs) sion grant, is digitized The Hammer Comes Down: The Hecho en Tejas also includes corridos from the turn of Dance and Other Stories (Panther especially love, but even without knowing in a searchable website # JOE R. LANSDALE: A Fine Dark Nasty, Brutish, and Shortened the century and verses sung by music legends such as at www.wg.txstate.edu. Creek Press) and Miriam “Ma” Line (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Political Life of Tom DeLay Lydia Mendoza and Santiago Jimenez, Sr., Freddy Fender, about any single one, what will not be Ferguson: First Woman Governor of and Flaming London (Subterrane- (PublicAffairs) and Selena. Texas (State House Press) forgotten will be the large of the community as an Press) In addition to these established names, already known # RICK RIORDAN: Percy Jackson & # SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT: Dead across the United States, Hecho en Tejas introduces the book puzzles forward, each piece # LARRY MCMURTRY (with Annie the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters Man’s Bones and The Tale of younger writers Christine Granados, Erasmo Guerra, and connecting land to history, sorrow to joy, to Proulx & Diana Ossana): Broke- (Miramax) Cuckoo Brow Wood (Berkley) Tonantzin Canestaro-García, famous Tejano authors of back Mountain: Story to Screenplay what is Mexican, to what is American, what is # TEXAS MONTHLY: Texas Monthly tomorrow. # SARAH BIRD: The Flamenco Aca- (Scribner) and Telegraph Days: A (above) J. Frank Dobie, On Texas Women (University of In assembling this reader, Dagoberto Gilb has created assimilated, what cannot be. # demy (Knopf) Novel (Simon & Schuster) 1953, Tom Lea (above) This credit stamp Texas Press) and Ain’t It Funny?: more than an anthology. Read cover to cover, Hecho en —DAGOBERTO GILB, from the introduction (middle) Dagoberto Gilb, appears on the back of # # most of Lee’s vintage FSA ELIZABETH CROOK: The Night ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS: On A Tribute to Willie Nelson (Emmis Tejas becomes not only a literary showcase, but also a El Paso, Texas, 1995, photographic prints 10 Journal (Viking) the Way to the Pond (Green Light Books) # cultural and historical narrative—filled with photographs 11 Laura Wilson SATURDAY, GREAT WORKS OF ART can stand ADVISORY OCTOBER 28 on their own without explanation, but COMMITTEE Please join us as we we are inevitably drawn to the makers New Members celebrate GRACIELA themselves in an effort to understand Sarah Bird ITURBIDE and Ojos the abiding mystery of artistic Ave Bonar para volar / Eyes to Fly creation. The Wittliff is a university Stephen Clark With. This free event gallery, so the exegesis of art is part of Nancy Coplin includes a reception, Bill Cunningham what we do. That being the case, program, and book Jim Dauterive when I read an interview with Graci- signing with Graciela, Faustinus Deraet Alejandro Castellanos, ela Iturbide in a tiny paperback pub- Dr. Miriam Echeverría and Fabienne Bradu, lished in Spain in 2002, I immediately Dagoberto Gilb beginning at 7:00 pm. saw in my mind’s eye an enhanced Dr. Miguel González- (Books will be for sale.) book, more fully illuminative of her Gerth Event support in part work: Graciela’s photographs— OJOS PARA VOLAR Tom Grimes provided by TIME including many self-portraits— Dr. Michael Hall WARNER CABLE. accompanied by her own words, Stephen Harrigan PLEASE RSVP to revealing more about her artistic Retta Kelley [email protected] process than she had ever revealed Dr. Sandra Mayo or call (512) 245-2313. eyes to fly with Joe Nick Patoski before. And now we’re pleased to be well, with Julie Savasky. With this the WG Series has been a great delight treatments that such a diagnosis John Payne [Exhibit runs October celebrating the realization of the book project Bill returns to his very early and has produced books of beauty and demands. He told me that throughout 21 through March 18.] Alan Pogue days as an award-winning Texas book consequence, a credit to both the his ordeal, he thought about the Jan Reid designer and publisher of The Encino University of Texas and Texas State. images and the text, which confront (center) ¿Ojos para volar? Jane Sumner / Eyes to Fly With?, Press, a business he and wife Sally Graciela will be here at the life, death, and the creation of art; and Cathy Supple Coyoacán, México, 1991 began as youngsters fresh out of the opening reception for her exhibit, while he was recuperating he wrote a Tita Valencia (below) Graciela Iturbide University of Texas. Design methods which features approximately 60 of truly inspired essay. He asked me to Eric Williams photographing cane are digital now—no more cutting and the 115 images from the book. We wait for him and I did—and, thank- Returning Members workers, Morelos, Mexico, 1980s, by Abbas pasting by hand or stripping film— don’t have wall space for all of them! fully, so did UT Press—and we were Dr. Mark Busby g aciela but the eye, as always, is supremely We are also inviting as speakers rewarded with a wonderful piece of Elizabeth Crook r Kathy Vargas important, and Bill has a great eye. I’ve Fabienne Bradu, literary critic and work. And a very encouraging ITURBIDE seen the book at every stage of devel- writer from Mexico City, and Alejan- prognosis for Alejandro himself. Bill & Sally Wittliff envisioned well over a year ago, Eyes opment, and it’s gorgeous. dro Castellanos, Director of the Come to the opening—it will be Ex officio to Fly With: Portraits, Self-Portraits, As always, we are deeply indebted Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City worth the drive. Graciela will also be Connie Todd (curator) and Other Photographs, the ninth in to David Cavazos, Production Manag- and author of a spectacular introduc- featured at the Texas Book Festival that the Gallery’s award-winning series. er at UT Press, and his unerring eye tion to the book (see sidebar, left). same weekend—but come and meet Talking with her good friend, and judgement. And to Joanna Hitch- Initially, I was reluctant to ask her here, surrounded by her pic- (below) Self-Portraits (l to r): with the Seri, Fabienne Bradu, Graciela’s conver- cock and Theresa May, Director and Alejandro to do the piece, because I tures—some of the finest photography Sonora Desert, 1979; sation, which forms the text of the Editor-in-Chief, respectively. Our knew he had been diagnosed with in the world. ¡Hasta entonces! # Coyoacán, 1993; book, sheds light on memories of nine-year collaboration with UTP on cancer and was to undergo all the fell —Connie Todd Mexico, 1977 family photographs, how she began in the field, her apprenticeship with Manuel Álvarez Bravo, her influences among other photographers, the death of her daughter and how it impacted her work, the importance of literature in her photography, her new directions, her ideas about portraiture and process, photos that got away, the importance of dreams in her work, and much, much more. I was volume editor on the book and Bill Wittliff was, as always, series 12 editor—and in this case designer as recent ACQUISITIONS from the ARCHIVES

(above) at the SOUTHWESTERN correspondence, posters, photographs, ephemera, and THE KEYSTONE Inscribed Cormac WRITERS COLLECTION compact discs. [Gift of Patoski] # Several manuscripts by is published by the McCarthy books recently Alkek Library added to the archives The Collection comprises materials from the region’s SAM SHEPARD from the production of Buried Child, The Department of Special (middle) authors, screenwriters, and songwriters. Acquisitions God of Hell, The Late Henry Moss and Tooth of Crime Collections at Texas Tophat, from the series listed represent additions from January through June [Gift of Shepard] # Extensive correspondence, research, State University-San Seen and Not Seen, 2001 2006. # A major collection of almost 200 CORMAC and drafts from BUD SHRAKE relate to his entire career Ken Rosenthal Marcos, a member MCCARTHY books, many signed and inscribed by the as a screenwriter, journalist, and novelist. [Gift of Shrake] of the Texas State # author, includes first editions of all of his published NEW archives of journalist/true-crime author University System and works as well as a photocopy of the original Blood CARLTON STOWERS includes research, drafts, an equal opportunity Meridian typescript with holograph corrections, various interviews, and notes for his books To the Last Breath and educational institution. # INSTRUCTING advanced proofs, and uncorrected proofs. Also Careless Whispers. [Gift of Stowers] Additional Dr. Denise Trauth ILLUMINATING subsequent editions, anthologies, and foreign editions; materials from TEXAS MONTHLY include editorial, President, Texas State INSPIRING and correspondence between McCarthy and book correspondence, research, and publicity files, a complete University-San Marcos The Southwestern # collector Howard Woolmer. Materials relating to run of the magazine as well as other TEXAS MONTHLY Dr. C. Van Wyatt Writers Collection ELIZABETH CROOK’s novel, The Night Journal, and Press publications, and videocassettes and publicity files Vice President, preserves and exhibits other publications. [Gift of Crook] # NEW archives of for the television series, Texas Monthly Talks. [Gift of Information Technology literary papers and biographer JEAN FLYNN contains papers, audio- TEXAS MONTHLY] # An additional 100 TEXAS memorabilia from the Joan Heath cassettes, and posters relating to her publications on MUSIC POSTERS by various artists, advertising shows at region’s leading Assistant Vice President, historical figures such as Stephen F. Austin, Lady Bird venues such as Antone’s (see p. 15), Armadillo World JULY 15, 1975. Austin, Texas. Clifton writers, filmmakers, University Library Johnson, Annie Oakley, and William B. Travis. [Gift of Headquarters, Austin Opera House, Vulcan Gas Chenier, zydeco king and blues and musicians, # # STAFF creating a rich Flynn] Significant additions to the archives of JOHN Company, and others. [Gift of Tom Wilmore] Items master, becomes the first headliner of Connie Todd, Curator, research environment GRAVES relate to Speckled added to BILL WITTLIFF’s the all-blues nightclub, Antone’s, Special Collections devoted to the cultural Horse, Of Birds and Men, archives include production named after 25-year-old founder [email protected] arts of the Southwest. Myself and Strangers: A materials from A Night in Old CLIFFORD ANTONE, and dubbed The Wittliff Gallery, Memoir, The Last Running, and Mexico, and drafts and research “Austin’s Home of the Blues.” The Steve Davis, Assistant a photo archive and A John Graves Reader. # More for My Losing Season; also location: an old furniture store on the Curator, Southwestern Writers Collection creative center focused LARRY L. KING materials numerous screenplays and corner of 6th & Brazos, before Sixth [email protected] on Mexico and the include correspondence, man- posters, plus subject files relating Street is anything resembling the Southwest, showcases uscripts, research, and reviews to artists represented in the entertainment district it is now. Carla Ellard, Assistant the works of distin- Curator, Wittliff Gallery of King’s biography of his “old Wittliff Gallery. [Gift of Bill & Soon Antone’s, thus Austin, with posters by Austin artists. It’s also guished artists whose [email protected] friend and mentor,” Willie Sally Wittliff] # becomes known as a blues mecca, a no surprise that prominent music images delight and Morris, plus materials relating rare place devoted to the sounds of journalist and author, Austin resident, Beverly Fondren inspire those explor- Development Officer to other projects, sports inter- at the WITTLIFF Chicago, Memphis, the Mississippi and Southwestern Writers Collection ing the visual heritage [email protected] of the regions. These ests, and speaking engage- GALLERY Delta. Not only that, but a place that donor Joe Nick Patoski has materials Mary García promoted to two counterparts of ments. [Gift of King] # Holdings now include more than treats its visiting musicians right and on Clifford Antone in his archives, Archives Assistant, LAIII the Albert B. Alkek Production notebooks from 13,200 photographs and over 150 nurtures local talent—most famously, including promotional items for (congratulations, Mary!) Library Department of the KING OF THE HILL artists. # Recent purchases Stevie Ray Vaughan. Clifford befriends Antone’s Records (see photo, above), [email protected] Special Collections at offices containing memos, scripts, and drafts of every include: 15 works from the Naturagraphia series by KATE legends like John Lee Hooker, Muddy and an interview in his Stevie Ray Michele Miller Texas State University- episode; also numerous drafts of a pilot for Monsignor BREAKEY (see cover) # over 20 images by KEITH Waters and Albert King, who often Vaughan Biography Papers. San Marcos bring alive Marketing & Martinez, a spin-off from the popular series. [Gift of Jim CARTER # 16 images from Los ciegos en México / The visit to teach, listen to, and learn from Besides being a music promoter “the spirit of place” Media Relations Dauterive] # Papers related to Harriet Tubman: Imagining Blind in Mexico series by MARCO ANTONIO CRUZ # other musicians as well as to perform. for his club, record store, and label, for students, scholars, [email protected] a Life, a biography by BEVERLY LOWRY due out in and 17 carbon digital prints from ANTONIO TUROK Antone’s is a place with one purpose Mr. Antone was a music educator, writers, artists, and the Joel Minor, Processing 2007. [Gift of Lowry] # NEW archives of PAUL SCOTT (see pp. 8/9). # The gallery also purchased tintypes of in mind: to appreciate and promote teaching classes at UT-Austin and community at-large. Archivist, Southwestern MALONE documents his writing career with papers for CAPTAIN THOMAS PRATTY and his wife, circa 1870, the blues. Austin Community College, as well as Writers Collection In an Arid Land: Thirteen Stories of Texas (the 1995 TIL from the Texas State Historical Association’s “Auction of Being a legendary Austin club in the popular “The History of Blues and [email protected] Award winner for the best book of fiction), and materials the Century.” # Three new artists have been added to the the same league as Armadillo World Rock and Roll” for the History Depart- Katie Salzmann, Lead relating to This House of Women, and Memorial Day and collection: SEAN PERRY, WALKER PICKERING, and Headquarters, the Broken Spoke, and ment at Texas State. He also helped Archivist, Southwestern (top) Clifford Antone press photo, Other Stories. [Gift of Malone] # Additions to the KEN ROSENTHAL. # Our thanks go out for recent gifts, the Vulcan Gas Company, it’s no raise funds for the university’s Center from the Joe Nick Patoski Papers Writers Collection ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS archives include corres- which include a WILLIAM WRIGHT photogravure [gift wonder Antone’s is included in our for Texas Music History, and gave [email protected] (above, left) Fats Domino poster, pondence, manuscripts, and ephemera, as well as several of Wright], five works by KEITH CARTER [gift of Keith WILMORE POSTER COLLECTION presentations at some of their events. from the Wilmore Music Poster Collection Tina Ybarra, we wish # of her published books. [Gift of Medearis] More boxes & Pat Carter], and over 150 copy prints of CARLETON —which documents live music in Mr. Antone passed away on May 23rd. (above, right) BB King poster, you much success in # # 14 from JOE NICK PATOSKI include notes, research, WATKINS photographs [anonymous gift]. Austin from the 1960s to the 1980s He is greatly missed. —Joel Minor from the Wilmore Music Poster Collection 15 your new career! Click THE KEYSTONE to read the title’s story: FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, UNLESS NOTED www.library.txstate.edu/ exhibits & events CALENDAR ALKEK LIBRARY | 7TH FLOOR | TEXAS STATE spec-coll EDITOR Connie Todd Wittliff Gallery on exhibit september 28 OJOS PARA VOLAR / E-MAIL CLOSING SEPT 6, 2006 EYES TO FLY WITH Exhibit [email protected] Southwestern Writers LA VIDA BRINCA / MFA “First Wednesday” Collection 6 Reception & Book Signing DESIGNER LIFE JUMPS: Tragaluz Poetry & Fiction Reading. with GRACIELA ITURBIDE Michele Miller ONGOING Photographs by Bill Wittliff 5pm & special guests, celebrating LONESOME DOVE the ninth book in the Wittliff LOCATION REVISITED Props, 15 LATINO PRESENCE Gallery Series. SEPT 15 – OCT 14, 2006 Special Collections and costumes, photographs, & Reception celebrates (see sidebar, p.12) THE LATINO PRESENCE AT its galleries are on the other items from the CBS Hispanic Heritage Month by 7 pm Reception TEXAS STATE: Celebrating Alkek Library’s seventh film rotate in two exhibits. honoring the 100th Anni- 8 pm Program followed by 100 Years This Hispanic floor at Texas State versary of Latinos at Texas book signing University-San Marcos Heritage Month Celebration State. (see p. 10) 5pm looks back to 1906 when TOURS & INFO the first Latinos joined the CHARLES BAXTER (512) 245-2313 28 november student body. (see p.10) reads for the English Dept’s HOURS Public Reception Sept 15 Therese Kayser Lindsey/ 1 MFA “First Wednesday” Exhibits OCT 21, 2006 – Katherine Anne Porter Series. Poetry & Fiction Reading. Mon/Tue/Fri 8–5 MAR 18, 2007 Book signing to follow. 5pm Wed/Thur 8–7 OJOS PARA VOLAR / EYES 3:30 pm Sat 9–5 / Sun 2–6 ELEANOR WILNER (frontispiece detail) La relación TO FLY WITH: Photographs 9 reads for the English Dept’s Archives & Reading y comentarios, Cabeza de Vaca by Graciela Iturbide Therese Kayser Lindsey/ Room Mon/Tue/Fri 8–5 Important works by one of october SEPT 1 – DEC 15, 2006 Katherine Anne Porter Series. Wed/Thur 8–7 Mexico’s greatest photog- TREASURES OF THE 4 MFA “First Wednesday” Book signing to follow. (Please call ahead to raphers. Exhibit coincides SOUTHWESTERN WRITERS Poetry & Fiction Reading. 3:30 pm verify / Closed during with ninth book in the breaks & holidays) COLLECTION: A 20th 5pm Anniversary Celebration WG Series. (see p. 12) 9 SARAH BIRD, ADMISSION The “greatest hits” of the Reception & Book Signing 7 TEXAS STATE FAMILY ELIZABETH CROOK, & Exhibits are free. permanent archives, with Iturbide Oct 28 DAY Open House. Curator STEPHEN HARRIGAN join ONLINE (Directions, including the 1555 edition Connie Todd gives informal the TREASURES OF THE parking & archive info) of Cabeza de Vaca’s tours of the Collections. SWWC exhibit celebration. www.library.txstate.edu/ La relación, a songbook 10 – 11:30 am (see sidebar, p.6) spec-coll made by an eleven-year-old 6:30 pm Reception Willie Nelson, costumes 26 C.D. WRIGHT & 7:30 pm Program followed from Lonesome Dove, & FORREST GANDER read by book signing w/authors RECEIVE much, much more. (see p. 6) for the English Dept’s THE KEYSTONE Reception & Discussion Therese Kayser Lindsey/ Join the mailing list: with SWWC authors Nov 9 Katherine Anne Porter Series. online: www.library.txstate.edu/ (detail) Self-Portrait in the Book signing to follow. directions, hours, spec-coll Country, 1996, Graciela Iturbide 3:30 pm & calendar updates (512) 245-2313 www.library.txstate.edu/spec-coll

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