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Amon Carter Adds Important Still Life to Its Collection

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The Amon Carter Museum of American Art has added an important painting to its collection.  Peaches and Grapes in a Chinese Export Basket (1813) by Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825) was recently purchased in memory of the museum’s founder Ruth Carter Stevenson (1913–2013). The painting will be on view beginning July 29 in the main gallery. Considered the first American still-life … Continue reading Amon Carter Adds Important Still Life to Its Collection

An Appetite for Food Art Now at the Amon Carter

Raphaelle Peale [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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There's an amazing show featuring the best still life paintings spanning more than a century currently at the Amon Carter in Fort Worth. It's not just still-life paintings in the exhibition Art and Appetite, it was also a reason to bring in some blockbusters like Edward Hoppers Nighthawks and Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want, but … Continue reading An Appetite for Food Art Now at the Amon Carter

Amon Carter Acquires Major, Little Seen, Duncanson Painting

Robert Seldon Duncanson
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A major painting by 19th-century landscape artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872), the first African-American artist to achieve international acclaim, has been purchased by Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Painted in 1869, the work titled The Caves was originally owned by Cincinnati Abolitionist Richard Sutton Rust (1815–1906), and it remained in his family … Continue reading Amon Carter Acquires Major, Little Seen, Duncanson Painting

Texas Regionalism Coming to the Amon Carter Museum

Texas Regionalism Amon Carter: Otis Dozier (1904–1987) Untitled, 1932 Watercolor © Denni Davis Washburn, William R. Miegel Jr., and Elizabeth Marie Miegel Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas Purchase with funds provided by the Paper Guild of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
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The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth will present an installation of Texas paintings that curators say captures a pivotal moment in the state’s cultural history. In the 1930s, a group of young artists—including Jerry Bywaters, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Thomas Stell, Harry Carnohan and Coreen Spellman, among others—gained national recognition for … Continue reading Texas Regionalism Coming to the Amon Carter Museum

The Country Home of Mega-Collector Duncan Phillips

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It was through the current exhibit (on view through January 6) at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art that I learned more about the Phillips Collection and Duncan Phillips himself. An astute collector, Phillips didn't have the wealth to match Andrew Carnegie or Andrew Mellon, but never-the-less assembled one of the country's great collections. … Continue reading The Country Home of Mega-Collector Duncan Phillips

Of Youth and Genius: Sargent at the Amon Carter

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“The Youthful Genius” - four paintings by John Singer Sargent from the Clark Art Institute, current exhibited at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, is mini-scaled show mixed with monumentality and intimacy. All painted by Sargent when he was aboard, between the age of 22 and 27, the artworks are extraordinary for painters of any age; yet … Continue reading Of Youth and Genius: Sargent at the Amon Carter

Fort Worth Shows Highlight Charles M. Russell as Watercolorist

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Two Fort Worth Museums will be displaying watercolors by Charles M. Russell in the coming months. Romance Maker: The Watercolors of Charles M. Russell opens at the Amon Carter and Charles M. Russell: Watercolorist opens at the Sid Richardson Museum, both on February 11. Russell created approximately 3,000 works of art in his lifetime—paintings, watercolors, drawings … Continue reading Fort Worth Shows Highlight Charles M. Russell as Watercolorist