Harry Ransom Center

Around Austin-Above an image looking out from the Harry Ransom Center's (HRC) ground floor . The public ground floor of HRC houses: one of the remaining copies of the 500-year-old "Gutenberg Bible," head sculpture's of notable writers-see selected images below and rotating exhibits. The next exhibit "The Worlds of Gertrude Stein" opens August 15th 2026. See https://www.hrc.utexas.edu for details. HRC is "an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities." (Source Wikipedia.org).

"James Joyce" by Sava Botzaris 1938. Joyce (1982-1941) ranks high amongst novelists with epic "Ulysses" (1922).

"George Bernard Shaw" by Clare Winsten (1944) Shaw (1856-1950) an Irish playwright famous for "Man and Superman" (1902), "Pygmalion" (1913), and "Saint Joan" (1923).

"Dylan Thomas" by Hugh Oloff De Wet. Thomas (1914-1953) was a Welsh poet with among many notable works the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion."