Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy
Exhibition

In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff photographed vaqueros in northern Mexico as they went about their daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cow herders learned to work cattle from a horse's back. Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy, the exhibition based on Wittliff's work, was created by the Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos and presented in partnership with the Humanities Texas traveling exhibitions program. For more information, contact, Irving Arts Center at 972.252.7558.

December 3, 2011–February 26, 2012
Irving Arts Center
3333 North MacArthur Boulevard
Irving, TX 75062

Map

Map of event location
Photograph by Bill Wittliff, 1971.