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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.
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.
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1972: acquired by Amon Carter Museum in memory of Richard Fargo Brown: Source/Photographer: Self-photographed, User:FA2010, October 2009: Permission (Reusing this file) The painting is in the Public Domain due to age. The photograph has been dedicated to the Public Domain by the photographer. Other versions
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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]
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]
In 1958, the Archives of American Art started an oral history program with base support from the Ford Foundation and continued with support from New York State Council on the Arts, Pew Charitable Trust, the Mark Rothko Foundation, and the Pasadena Art Alliance. Today the Archives houses nearly 2,000 oral history interviews relating to American ...