LOCATION: The Amon Carter Museum is located at 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard, in the heart of Fort Worth's Cultural District.
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Website: http://www.cartermuseum.org/
INFORMATION / COLLECTIONS / EXHIBITIONS:
The Amon Carter Museum opened in January 1961 to house the large collection of western art of the Fort Worth publisher and philanthropist Amon G. Carter, Sr. (1879–1955).
The Museum rapidly expanded from Carter's original collection of 400 paintings, drawings, and works of sculpture by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. Today, the museum collection includes a wide range of nineteenth- and 20th century American paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture, as well as photographs from photography´s early days to the present.
The HIGHLIGHTS of the museum collection include:
· Nineteenth-century landscapes by Hudson River School painters
· Trompe-l'oeil still lifes
· American impressionism and modernism
· Paintings by Remington and Russell
· Early scenes of the West by John Mix Stanley and Albert Bierstadt
· New Mexico paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe
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