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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.
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] It is one of many paintings by Chase that depicted his wife and children at ease. [2]
In 1927, O'Keeffe made a painting of a close-up of the wide red petals of the canna lily. Painted in oil, it is 36 + 1 ⁄ 8 by 30 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (91.8 cm × 76.5 cm). Once among private collections, it is now owned by Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. [21]
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.
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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]
[He was] the most famous American artist of his time." [21] Paintings and prints by George Bellows are in the collections of many major and regional American art museums, including the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, Texas, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and ...
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