[1][2][3] The group's core consisted of nine men who had applied to decorate the Hall of State in 1936: Jerry Bywaters, Thomas M. Stell, Jr., Harry P. Carnohan, Otis M. Dozier, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Everett Spruce, John Douglass and Perry Nichols.
[1] Other members in the 1930s and 1940s included Charles T. Bowling, Russell Vernon Hunter, Merritt T. Mauzey, Florence McClung, Allie Tennant, Dorothy Austin, Don Brown, and Lloyd Goff.
[4] The group's range of practices included painting, printmaking and sculpture.
[1] Works by many of these artists are held at the Bywaters Special Collections at Southern Methodist University.
A special issue of Art Digest featured their work.