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The main auditorium at Texas A&M School of Law is named after Amon Carter. It was a gift of the Amon G. Carter Foundation. The Southern Air Transport terminal at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport, now Atlantic Aviation, was dedicated to Amon Carter in 1933. The Fort Worth ISD's Amon Carter Riverside High School honors Carter.
Ruth Carter Stevenson (October 19, 1923 – January 6, 2013) was an American patron of the arts and founder of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, which opened in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 1961. [1] Stevenson was born to Amon G. Carter and Nenetta Carter in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1923. [2]
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The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) is located in Fort Worth, Texas, in the city's cultural district.The museum's permanent collection features paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by leading artists working in the United States and its North American territories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Botanical illustrators paint or draw plants and sometimes their natural environment as well, forming a lineage where art and science meet. Some prefer to paint isolated specimen flowers while others prefer arrangements. Many botanical artists through the centuries have been active in collecting and cataloguing new species and/or in breeding plants.
The Amon G. Carter Foundation donated the casting of Riding into the Sunset to Texas Tech University in 1950. Carter was the first chairman of the university's board of regents when it was founded in 1923. The sculpture is located in what is now called Amon G. Carter Plaza at the university's main entrance. [5]
South African botanical artist 1895-01-01 1985-05-03 South Africa: Daphne Osborne: Botanist 1930-03-07 2006-06-16 United Kingdom: Deborah M. Pearsall: American paleoethnobotany 1950 United States: Dianne Edwards: Palaeobotanist 1942 United Kingdom: Doris Löve: Swedish-Icelandic botanist (1918–2000) 1918-01-02 2000-02-25 Sweden: Dorothea Pertz
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth Idle Hours is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American Impressionist painter William Merritt Chase . Completed in 1894, it measures 90.2 by 64.8 centimeters, and is now housed at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art , Fort Worth . [ 1 ]