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Betsy Daves Bass

Betsy Bass lives and works in Dallas, Texas. She is active with the Texas Sculpture Association, Dallas Visual Art Center, and the Texas Visual Arts Association.

Ms. Bass works with metals and mixed media. She has shown her work in many juried and organizational membership exhibitions. Recent Texas exhibitions include the Signature Gallery in Dallas, the Ellen Noel Art Museum in Odessa, the Water Tower Theater in Addison, and the 500 X in Dallas.

Her Texas Sculpture Garden piece is a collaboration with Tim Nentrup, owner of Displays Unlimited in Fort Worth. Mr. Nentrup built the 'window' and Ms. Bass provided the bronze birds.

Tim Nentrup works in Arlinton, Texas. His company, Displays Unlimited, is a full-service art handling and display company. Prior to opening his own company in 1996, Mr. Nentrup worked for the Dallas Museum of Art in the exhibition preparatory department.


		*Bird Window*

		2000 commission

		bronze, oak

		6801 Gaylord - Interior Texas Sculpture Garden

	From Betsy Bass: "The conception of the first sculpture called, The Birds, was spawned from a window display at a ladies retail apparel store. The French window frame just lent itself to be the home of birds. The Hall commission in Texas Sculpture Park, titled, Bird Window, is larger than the first one and has over eighty birds perched on it." From Tim Nentrup: "It makes me happy to see all those pretty little birds on my window."