Oral history interview with Christopher Perry Nichols, 2003 February 22.

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Oral history interview with Christopher Perry Nichols, 2003 February 22.

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Interview with Christopher Perry Nichols, stage director, concerning his recollections of his father, the artist Perry Nichols. Growing up at the family house/studio on Forest Park Road, Dallas, Texas, in the 1940s; his father's first wife, Mary Nell Brooks; his description and identification of the arts people who visited his father's studio; his father's conversion of a church on Cole Avenue in Dallas into an apartment/studio in the late 1940s; his parents' divorce, 1948; his father's career and commissions to do murals in the late 1940s; commissions with Interstate Theaters, Sears Roebuck, Baker Hotel, Crozier Technical High School, and the Belo Corporation for the Dallas Morning News Building; reminiscences of Elizabeth Akin, George Dahl, Reid McBride, Donald Vogel, Olin Travis, and Golda Andrews; his father's marriage to Akin, 1950-56; his father's affair with Diana Hamon; the role of Jerry Bywaters on his father's career; "The Dallas Nine"; the house on Noel Road and the social life there; the breakup of his father's relationship with Hamon and subsequent marriage to Marty Hawn; his father's alcoholism and death.

67 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

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Texas Community History Oral History Project.

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Balsley, Gerald

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Nichols, Christopher P.

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Travis, Olin 1888-1975.

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Dahl, George 1916-1991.

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Nichols, E. E. (Ernest Elmer), 1900-1971

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Bywaters, Jerry

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Jerry Bywaters (1906-1989) was a painter and art historian from Dallas, Tex. From the description of Oral history interview with Jerry Bywaters, 1965 June 9 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 458411642 Painter, art historian; Dallas, Texas. Born 1906. Died 1989. From the description of Jerry Bywaters interview, 1965 June 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220192385 Painter, art historian, and museum director; Dallas, Tex. Born 1906. Died 19...