Amon Carter Museum of American Art – Virtual Tour

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art features paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by leading artists working in the United States.

The museum’s painting collection focuses on the period from the 1820s through the 1940s. The collection is mainly focused on portrayals of the Old West and the exploration and settlement in American history.

The museum’s collection of photographs, prints, and other works on paper cover the period up to the present day.

The American photography collection consists of 45,000 exhibition-quality prints, dating from the earliest years of the medium to the present.

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art opened in 1961 as the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art.

The museum’s library holds 150,000 items in its art reference library, which is non-circulating and organized around the study of American art, photography, and culture from Colonial times to the present.

His First Lesson by Frederic Remington, 1903

Highlights of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

“Parson Weems’ Fable” by Grant Wood
“The Smoke Signal” by Frederic Remington
“A Dash for the Timber” by Frederic Remington
“Oregon City on the Willamette River” by John Mix Stanley
Childe Hassam, Flags on the Waldorf, 1916
John Singer Sargent, Edwin Booth, 1890
John Singer Sargent, Alice Vanderbilt Shepard, 1888
John Mix Stanley, The Young Chief Uncas, 1869
Henry Roderick Newman, Anemones, 1876
John Mix Stanley, Oregon City on the Willamette River, 1852
Winslow Homer, Crossing the Pasture, 1871–72
Fitz Henry Lane, Boston Harbor, 1856
Henry Kirke Brown, The Choosing of the Arrow, 1848 – 1849
Frederic Remington, An Indian Trapper, 1889
Charles Deas, Indian Group, 1845
Frederic Remington, A Dash for the Timber, 1889
Charles M. Russell, In Without Knocking, 1909

In Without Knocking by Charles M. Russel, 1909

Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Museum: Amon Carter Museum of American Art
City: Fort Worth
Country: United States
State: Texas
Established: 1961
Type: Art Museum
Location: 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX, United States

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