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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.
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.
1961 – Amon Carter Museum of American Art opened. [7] 1962 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition began. [7] Miss Texas Pageant (beauty contest) relocated to city. [8] 1964 – Fort Worth Civil Liberties Union formed. [24] 1968 – Fort Worth Museum of Science and History active. 1969 Alleged Lake Worth Monster spotted.
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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 is committing $10.75 million to support the new Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus under construction in ... The foundation sponsors and largely supports the Amon Carter Museum.
[3] The proposed museum was given space in a 9.5 acre (3.8 hectare) site in Fort Worth's Cultural District, which was already home to three other museums, including the Fort Worth Art Museum-Center (now the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) and the Amon Carter Museum, specializing in art of the American West. [4]: 212
The Right of the Road – A Hazardous Encounter on a Rocky Mountain Trail; 1900; Oil on canvas; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Amon G. Carter Collection; 1961.246 Remington was one of the first American artists to illustrate the true gait of the horse in motion (along with Thomas Eakins ), as validated by the famous ...