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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 ...