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| Established | January 1961[1] |
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| Location | 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard Fort Worth, Texas 76107-2695 (United States) |
| Coordinates | 32°44′53″N 97°22′08″W / 32.748°N 97.369°W |
| Executive director | Andrew J. Walker |
| Architect | Philip Johnson |
| Website | Amon Carter Museum of American Art |
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 greatest concentration of works falls into the period from the 1820s through the 1940s. Photographs, prints, and other works on paper produced up to the present day are also an area of strength in the museum's holdings.
The collection was built on portrayals of the Old West by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, artworks depicting nineteenth-century expansionism and settlement of the North American continent, and masterworks that are emblematic of major turning points in American art history. The "full spectrum" of American photography is documented by 45,000 exhibition-quality prints, dating from the earliest years of the medium to the present.[2] A rotating selection of works from the permanent collection is on view year-round during regular museum hours, and several thousand of these works can be studied online using the Collection tab on the Carter's official website. Museum admission for all exhibits, including special exhibits, is free.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art opened in 1961 as the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. The museum's original collection of more than 300 works of art by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell was assembled by Fort Worth newspaper publisher and philanthropist Amon G. Carter Sr. (1879–1955).[3] Carter spent the last ten years of his life laying the legal, financial, and philosophical groundwork for the museum's creation.[4]
- ^ Amon Carter Museum: About, ARTINFO, 2008, archived from the original on 2009-01-13, retrieved 2008-07-28
- ^ Roark, Carol; et al. (1993). Catalogue of the Amon Carter Museum Photography Collection. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum. pp. Introduction xi. ISBN 0-88360-063-3.
- ^ Stewart, Rick (2001). The Grand Frontier: Remington and Russell in the Amon Carter Museum. Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum. p. 3. ISBN 0-88360-095-1.
- ^ Junker, Patricia; et al. (2001). An American Collection: Works from the Amon Carter Museum. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Amon Carter Museum. pp. 12–14. ISBN 1-55595-198-8.