[Lewis Randolph Bryan]

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Portrait proof of Lewis Randolph Bryan with glasses. Interior shot. "Proof by SL Poor" is handwritten on front of print.

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Original print, sepia. 8' x 10"

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Poor, S. L. 1945~.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Robert Joy Collection and was provided by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 180 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Portrait proof of Lewis Randolph Bryan with glasses. Interior shot. "Proof by SL Poor" is handwritten on front of print.

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Original print, sepia. 8' x 10"

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Lewis Randolph Bryan, Jr. (1892-1959) received his law degree from the University of Texas. After serving in WWI, he began a career in banking and became president of the Second National Bank in 1944. He was a director of Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston Branch. He was the president of the San Jacinto Museum of History Association and the Philosophical Society of Texas as well as trustee of the Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association. He married Katherine McGowen in 1924 and had two sons, Lewis Randolph Bryan, III and Stephen Fuller Austin Bryan.

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Considered Houston's premier portraitist, Robert Joy painted more than 350 portraits over a career that spanned more than 40 years. His subjects included lawyers, politicians, and the social elite.

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  • 1945~

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  • Oct. 5, 2006, 7:42 p.m.

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  • Jan. 9, 2017, 1:19 p.m.

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Poor, S. L. [Lewis Randolph Bryan], photograph, 1945~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18562/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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