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Twentieth-Century Paintings and Sculpture in the new Amon Carter Museum.(Fort Worth, Texas)

The Magazine Antiques

| November 01, 2001 | JUNKER, PATRICIA | COPYRIGHT 2001 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In 1975 The Magazine ANTIQUES devoted an issue to Texas institutions of regional history and art, affording the still young Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth a chance to show the highlights of its collection to a national readership. [*] The selection of objects in that article focused on historical paintings with western themes, especially works by Frederic Remington (1861-1909) and Charles M. Russell (1864- 1926). Acquired by the museum's benefactor, Amon G. Carter Sr. (1879-1955), these works had prompted the founding of the museum. When the museum opened in 1961, in a classically inspired pavilion designed by Philip Johnson (1906--), Mr. Carter's collection became the ...

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