Amon Carter Museum - Fort Worth TX -Cultural District American Art Museum

Located at 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. Fort Worth, Texas in the Fort Worth Cultural District, the Amon Carter Museum offers visitors an amazing selection of American art. With exhibits ranging from the first landscape painters of the 1830s to modern artists of the twentieth century, their collection includes masterworks by such luminaries as Alexander Calder, Thomas Cole, Stuart Davis, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Singer Sargent, and Alfred Stieglitz.

The museum also houses founder Amon G. Carter's collection of works by the two greatest artists of the American West, Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. The museum's photography collection ranks among the finest in the country.

The museum offers the following collections:

Illustrated Books. Long regarded as one of the nation's principal research facilities, the museum has continued to acquire illustrated books to further enrich the visual and historical context of related works of art from the museum's collection. Today, their rare illustrated book collections contain many of the finest examples of the literature of American art and Americana published during the past two centuries.

Paintings, premier examples of American painting from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Masterworks by Frederic Church, Martin Johnson Heade, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and William Merritt Chase share gallery space with monumental works by such artists as Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Photographs, over 30,000 photographic prints, making the museum one of the country's major repositories of American photography. The holdings span the history of the photographic medium, from one of the earliest daguerreotypes made in this country to inkjet prints being made today. Selected works from the photography collection are always on view.

Sculpture. Beyond its collection of over 100 sculptures by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, the Amon Carter Museum's holdings of American sculpture include landmark works by such luminaries as Henry Kirke Brown, Daniel Chester French, Paul Manship, Elie Nadelman, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Works on Paper, The works on paper collection includes over 600 watercolors and drawings covering a wide range of subjects - from views of the West by early-nineteenth-century artist-explorers to twentieth-century abstractions - and more than 5,700 prints, from lithographs of the Mexican War to complete sets of prints by George Bellows and Stuart Davis.

Remington and Russell. Their superb and fascinating collection of works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell form the center of a much larger permanent collection of American art, which includes one of the strongest and finest collections of photography in the country. The Carter's Remington-Russell holdings are unique, for nowhere else can a visitor see and compare so many masterpieces by these two artists. With their fascinating details and hypnotic aura of romance, these works provide an unparalleled journey into the Old West.

A Membership to the museum is offered on a yearly basis. You can enjoy a variety of benefits and privileges as a member of the Amon Carter Museum while helping to preserve an important part of their American heritage for future generations. Membership contributions support museum exhibitions, collections, conservation, public programs, and education outreach. In return, all members receive a 15 percent discount in the Museum Store, invitations to members-only events, access to the Members Lounge, and more.

The museum offers various online teaching aids. Carter's online teaching resources has images, information on artworks and artists, discussion questions, and classroom activities for all grade levels tied to state and national standards. Taking students to nineteenth-century Texas, Antarctica, the American West, and more without leaving their classroom! There is also an onsite library open to the general public. The library's research collections, numbering over 100,000 items, offer a range of materials covering the early nineteenth century through the present day. The collections emphasize the museum's art collecting and exhibition program, with particular strengths in the art of the American West and the history of North American western expansion, making this library one of the nation's premier centers for the advanced study of American art, photography, and history.

The Carter has accessible parking and a barrier-free entrance on Lancaster Avenue. Wheelchairs and assistive listening devices are available for use while at the museum. Hand-held still and video photography is permitted in the permanent collection as indicated by gallery signage. Photographs can be taken for personal, non-commercial use only. Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday: Noon-5 p.m., Closed Mondays and major holidays. Admission to the permanent collection is free. Phone: 817.738.1933