Amon Carter Museum of American Art
A renowned collection of American art housed in Philip Johnson’s masterpiece in the heart of Fort Worth’s Cultural District.
Designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art houses a preeminent collection of American art including painting, sculpture, and works on paper. The collection spans early nineteenth-century expeditionary art to mid-twentieth century modernism and includes masterworks by artists such as Stuart Davis, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Georgia O’Keeffe, and John Singer Sargent. The museum is one of the nation’s major repositories of American photography and holds the archives of luminaries such as Nell Dorr, Laura Gilpin and Eliot Porter. The Amon Carter is also home to nearly 400 works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, the two greatest artists of the American West. Admission is always free.
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1. Exterior Day
2. Interior Day
3. Exterior Sunset
4. Party on the Porch
5. Party on the Porch, Night
6. George Bellows (1882-1925), Bathing Beach, 1921, Lithograph, chine colle, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
7. Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Sunrise, Yosemite Valley, ca. 1870, Oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
8. Willard LeRoy Metcalf (1858-1925), Pond Lilies, 1905, Oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
9. Fredric S. Remington (1861-1909), Coming Through the Rye, 1902, Bronze, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
10. John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Alice Vanderbilt Shepard, 1888, oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
11. George Bellows (1882–1925), The Fisherman, 1917, oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
12. Charles Demuth (1883–1935), Chimney and Water Tower, 1931, oil on composition board, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
13. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), Red Cannas, 1927, oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
14. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), Ranchos Church, New Mexico, 1930–31, oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
15. William J. McCloskey (1859–1941), Wrapped Oranges, 1889, oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Acquisition in memory of Katrine Deakins, Trustee, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 1961–1985
16. Lewis Hine (1874–1940), Steamfitter, 1921, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
17. Hiram Powers (1805–1873), Bust of the "Greek Slave", after 1845–46, marble, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase with funds from the Ruth Carter Stevenson Acquisitions Endowment
18. Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), Benediction, 1922, bronze, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase with funds provided by the Council of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
19. Frederic S. Remington (1861–1909), The Fall of the Cowboy, 1895, oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Amon G. Carter Collection
20. Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Maternal Caress, 1890–1891, drypoint, aquatint, and soft-ground etching, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase with funds provided by Ruth Carter Stevenson
