Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Art museum in Fort Worth, United States
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is a museum in Fort Worth, Texas, designed by architect Philip Johnson and opened in 1961. Its light gray concrete facade has a flat roof overhanging tall dark arched windows, with five flaring concrete columns between the window bays. A recessed glass entrance sits behind a low concrete landing with metal handrails, and the name appears in small dark metal lettering on the left of the wall.
Amon G. Carter Sr., publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, spent the last ten years of his life preparing the legal and financial groundwork for a museum to hold his Remington and Russell collection; it opened in 1961 as the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art in a building by Philip Johnson. Its first director, Mitchell A. Wilder, widened the scope from western subjects to American art from the 1830s onward. A Philip Johnson-designed addition followed in 2001.
The name honors a local newspaper publisher who wanted to share his personal collection with the public. Today visitors come here to see works showing cowboys, western landscapes, and everyday scenes from different centuries.
Admission is free, making the place a popular destination for families and students. A research library in the building can be used for study after advance registration.
The building was designed by Philip Johnson and opened in 1961; a 2001 addition was also his work. Its concrete facade, with five flaring columns and a row of tall dark arched windows, faces a low planted slope. The museum's core is over 400 works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell.
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