The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 80, July 1976 - April, 1977 Page: 427
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from the 1780s to the i97os, representing such artists as Charles M. Rus-
sell, Albert Bierstadt, Maynard Dixon, Frank Tenney Johnson, Walter
Ufer, Oscar Berninghaus, and Tom Lea. Earlier gifts by Smith of paint-
ings by the noted H. F. Farney have made UT-Austin, along with the
Cincinnati Art Museum, one of the: top centers for the study of that
artist, considered the leading interpreter of the western frontier at the
turn of the century.
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An endowed chair honoring a former director of the Texas State His-
torical Association was announced on March x 2 by President Lorene Rog-
ers of the University of Texas at Austin. The chair, to be known as the
Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas, was endowed by C. B.
Smith, Sr., a TSHA member and former student of Professor Webb. The
chair will become effective on September i.
Robert D. King, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
at UT-Austin, said that an advisory committee of two members from the
academic community and two from the outside will be set up to make
recommendations concerning operation of the Webb Chair, the first en-
dowed chair in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. King felt
that since Webb's influence spread well beyond academic circles, such a
broad committee was appropriate.
Webb, who died in 1963, taught in the University of Texas history de-
partment for forty-five years, was president of the American Historical
Association, and through his books expressed ideas that have been the focus
of two international symposia attracting some of the world's foremost
thinkers.
John Fischer, senior editor of Harper's Magazine, has written that "To
the joy of his editors, Walter Prescott Webb was an unfashionable kind of
historian. Some of his colleagues, indeed, regarded him as a scandal to the
profession, because he shamelessly practiced three heresies:
-"He believed that history was a branch of literature. ...
-"He believed that a historian's objectivity need not bar him from
holding, and expressing, strong convictions. ..
-"He wasn't afraid to tackle big subjects. .. ."
In the Association Webb is best remembered as the father of the Junior
Historian movement, which J. Frank Dobie once described as his greatest
endeavor, and the Handbook of Texas, a monumental endeavor which has
drawn international attention to the TSHA.427
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