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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]
Catherine de' Medici was a patron of the arts made a significant contribution to the French Renaissance. Catherine was inspired by the example of her father-in-law, King Francis I of France (reigned 1515–1547), who had hosted the leading artists of Europe at his court.
In California, she finished her doctoral thesis on the art patronage of Maria de' Medici (1978) after which she taught at colleges and universities in the Los Angeles area. She was an adjunct assistant professor at Occidental College in 1979, 1981 and 1982, and she was a field faculty advisor at Goddard College from 1975 to 1979.
The Fort Worth Art Dealers Association’s Spring Gallery Night takes place once again at venues across the county on March 30, with the above venue showing as well as Gallery 440 (440 S. Main St ...
The Woman's Club of Fort Worth occupies a 2.2-acre (0.89 ha) site on Pennsylvania Avenue in Fort Worth's Near Southside, and includes structures in the Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, and Craftsman styles. All structures in the complex are painted "antique Spanish white" to unify the disparate architectural styles.
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Arts Fort Worth works with city council members and staff to determine suitable locations for public art projects keeping diversity, equity and inclusion in mind. The East Rosedale Monument ...
From the ancient world onward, patronage of the arts was important in art history.It is known in greatest detail in reference to medieval and Renaissance Europe, though patronage can also be traced in feudal Japan, the traditional Southeast Asian kingdoms, and elsewhere—art patronage tended to arise wherever a royal or imperial system and an aristocracy dominated a society and controlled a ...