Sid Richardson Museum, Western art museum in downtown Fort Worth, United States.
The Sid Richardson Museum occupies a two-story red brick replica of an 1895 building in Sundance Square, downtown Fort Worth. Its flat-roofed facade has a central glazed double door flanked by large display windows in dark metal frames and stone surrounds, with "SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM" lettered in a band above them. Four white-framed sash windows sit on the upper floor beneath a lighter stone cornice.
Oil entrepreneur Sid Williams Richardson began assembling this art collection in 1942, purchasing works from Newhouse Galleries in New York City. The collection was built until 1959 and now forms the core of the museum.
The museum's name honours Sid Williams Richardson (1891–1959), the oilman and philanthropist whose personal collection of Western art it holds. He bought the paintings mainly through Newhouse Galleries in New York between 1942 and 1959. Besides Remington and Russell, the walls carry works by Oscar E. Berninghaus, Charles F. Browne, Edwin W. Deming, William Gilbert Gaul, Peter Hurd, Frank Tenney Johnson, William R. Leigh, Peter Moran and Charles Schreyvogel.
The museum sits in Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth, convenient for downtown visitors and workers. Admission is always free. Tours are offered to visitors, school and community groups, and a virtual tour is available on the museum's website. The 2020 renovation turned the retail space into an introductory gallery.
The museum opened in 1982 in a replica of an 1895 building, not a restored one; the brick facade carries the name "SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM" above the ground-floor windows. In 2020 the retail space was converted into an introductory gallery to the collection.
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