Art at the Library


Paintings of Mr. And Mrs. J. J. Culbertson, who donated the land and financed $50,000 for the building of the Paris Public Library.


Davie Crockett painted by Jerry Bywaters.	John Chisum painted by Jerry Bywaters.


Reconstruction painted by Jerry Bywaters.	The fire of 1916 painted by Jerry Bywaters.

Jerry Bywaters self portrait. Bywaters was an American artist, university professor, museum director, art critic and a historian of the Texas region.

Painting by John T. Biggers, an African-American muralist who came to prominence after the
Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II .

Morning Break by Irby Brown 1980

“Jose Cisneros sketches - a collection of 21 sketches from the book “The Red River Valley: Then and Now” by former Paris News Editor A.W. Neville, published in 1948.