Ft Worth, Texas, USA - January 6, 2015: The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is located in the cultural district of Fort Worth, Texas. The museum devoted to American art and possesses one of the premier collections of American photography in the nation.
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Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Fort Worth


Texas oilman Amon Carter starting collecting the art of the American West in the 1930s. Since his death, his impressive array of paintings and sculpture by Frederic Remington and Charles M Russell has been supplemented with works by John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Winslow Homer and Alexander Calder.

A newly expanded upstairs gallery displays the museum’s extensive photography collection.


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