Amon Carter Museum
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is a museum of American painting, sculpture, and photography in Fort Worth , Texas . It was donated by Amon G. Carter to house his collection of paintings and sculptures by "Western" artists Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell . The museum opened in 1961 in a building designed by the architect Philip Johnson .
The first museum director, Mitchell A. Wilder, broadened the focus of the collection considerably. After interpreting American art history as the story of artists working on their respective “ frontier ” at different times , he expanded the collection in various directions, from the first American landscape painters in the 1830s to modern art of the 20th century. The museum continues to actively collect American art to this day. In 2001 the museum was expanded to include an extension, also designed by Philip Johnson .
The collection includes masterpieces by Alexander Calder , Thomas Cole , Stuart Davis , Winslow Homer , Georgia O'Keeffe , John Singer Sargent , Charles Demuth , Martin Johnson Heade and Alfred Stieglitz . Thomas Eakins ' famous painting Swimming (owned by the museum since 1990) is also on display .
The Amon Carter Museum also has one of the best collections of American photography, consisting of more than 30,000 exhibition prints from around 400 photographers. The photography collection contains works and bequests from important American photographers such as Laura Gilpin , Eliot Porter and Karl Struss .
Like the neighboring art museums Kimbell Art Museum and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the museum is located in the "Cultural District" of Fort Worth.
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Coordinates: 32 ° 44 ′ 51.8 " N , 97 ° 22 ′ 7" W.