The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas was founded in 1961 through a bequest in the will of Amon G. Carter. It houses a large collection of American art, including paintings, sculptures, and photography, and has a research library and training facilities for educators. The museum’s collection began with works by Charles Marion Russell and Frederick Remington left by Carter.
The Amon Carter Museum, or more formally the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, is an art museum founded in Fort Worth, Texas in 1961. It was created through a bequest in the will of Texan publisher Amon G. Carter and is named in his honor. The Amon Carter Museum now houses a large collection of American paintings, illustrations, and sculptures, as well as one of the most prestigious collections of American photography in the country.
It contains more than 6,000 paintings, sculptures and drawings in numerous styles by American artists from throughout American history. The museum houses works by many notable American artists, such as painters Georgia O’Keefe and Thomas Cole and sculptor Paul Manship. It also has a collection of many other objects from the last two centuries, such as prints, lithographs and illustrated books.
The Amon Carter Museum also houses an extremely extensive photographic collection containing more than 40,000 photographic prints and several hundred thousand negatives and slides. These include thousands of images by Eliot Porter, one of the pioneers of color photography, as well as photos by other leading American photographers, such as Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz. The collection spans the history of American photography and contains photographs dating back to the 1840s.
The building itself was originally quite small, but has undergone several additions to its original construction as the museum’s collection has grown and is now several times its original size, covering more than 100,000 square feet (9,290 square meters). In addition to its exhibits, the Amon Carter Museum also contains a research library devoted to the history of American art and the history of the American West, a bookstore, and storage facilities for art not currently on display. There are also training facilities for educators to learn how to teach their students art and a resource library of teaching materials for schools, colleges and home schoolers.
The museum was originally conceived by Amon G. Carter. Carter was the owner of the popular Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper, which had the largest circulation of any newspaper in the southern United States for several decades in the first half of the 20th century, and an outspoken and widely known civic promoter and popularizer of his home state of Texas, especially Fort Worth. Upon his death in 1955, his will contained a provision for the construction of an art museum in Fort Worth that would house his art collection and be dedicated to American art more generally. The museum’s collection began with several hundred paintings and sculptures by Charles Marion Russell and Frederick Remington, two artists specializing in images of the American Old West, left to the museum by Carter himself.
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