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Sneak Peeks: Future Exhibits at The Wittliff Collections

Upcoming exhibitions at the Wittliff Collections include Swim Against the Current (March 22-August 1, from the Southwestern Writers Collection), which showcases the literary archives of radio commentator, public speaker, and writer Jim Hightower. Featuring manuscripts, photographs, original art, and other artifacts, the exhibition lends insight into the life and works of the man often billed as “America’s No. 1 Populist.”

Two photography exhibitions are also on tap, both scheduled to run March 27-Aug. 1, from the Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection. Commemorating Mexico’s bicentennial for independence and the centennial of the start of the Mexican Revolution, ¡Viva México! offers historical, modern, and documentary images, as well as art photographs, by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Yolanda Andrade, François Aubert, Lázaro Blanco, Lola Bravo, Hugo Brehme, Keith Carter, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marco Antonio Cruz, Héctor García, Graciela Iturbide, Eniac Martínez, Franciso Mata, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Antonio Turok, C.B. Waite, Mariana Yampolsky, and many more.

The second exhibition, Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy, includes more than 60 digital carbon-ink prints by Bill Wittliff that reveal the muscle, sweat, and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle. Bilingual narrative texts accompany the images. Created as a traveling exhibition in partnership with Humanities Texas, it was made possible by a We the People grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Fall exhibitions are beginning to take shape, as well. According to Media Relations & Publications Coordinator Michele Miller, the literary archives of Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road and No Country for Old Men, will be the focus of the next Southwestern Writers Collection exhibition, and the 12th volume in the Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection Book Series, Painted Light, will be celebrated with an exhibition of Kate Breakey’s spectacular, hand-colored photo works.

See the full article in the February 2010 issue.