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Amon Giles Carter Sr. (born Giles Amon Carter; December 11, 1879 – June 23, 1955) was the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a nationally known civic booster for Fort Worth, Texas. [1] A legacy in his will was used to create Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum, [2] which was founded by his daughter, Ruth Carter Stevenson ...
The Swimming Hole. The Swimming Hole (also known as Swimming and The Old Swimming Hole) is an 1884–85 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), Goodrich catalog #190, in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. Executed in oil on canvas, it depicts six men swimming naked in a lake, and ...
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art ( ACMAA) 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.
Wear played a part in the effort to search for the son of Star-Telegram Publisher Amon G. Carter, Lt. Amon Carter Jr., who was held captive as a prisoner of war from 1943-1945.
March 10, 1939: Amon Carter and others ride horses at the head of the parade to open the 43rd Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth. Behind the men on the horses is a marching band.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s 2024 schedule features new takes on the permanent collection, large installations by Texas and national artists, and a reinterpretation of the American ...
Amon G. Carter Stadium is an open-air football stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the home stadium of the TCU Horned Frogs football team. It is named after Amon G. Carter, a prominent Fort Worth businessman, newspaper publisher, and city booster. Amon G. Carter stadium has several popular nicknames ...
March 10, 1939: Amon Carter and others ride horses at the head of the parade to open the 43rd Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth. Behind the men on the horses is a marching band.