amon carter museum of american art

I loved the Remington and Russell collections. Most of the bronzes are in storage or on loan during restoration, though.I would go back when renovations are complete.

This museum exemplifies what a great museum should emulate. It western art displayed is some of the best in the world. By the most renowned artists of all time. It's worth spending time at. It's a def must see!

I grew up near and was in Chicago alot through my early 40's. So when I moved here, I knew nothing about Ft. Worth's Museum district.If you are visiting, take a day, and go to all three. Open your mind. It is significant.Parking ? easy.Traveling Exhibitions ? world class.Architecture ? beautiful.Museum owned and borrowed pieces ? world class.The Amon Carter, The Kimball, and The Modern,,,,, all next to one another. About a city block's walk from one to the next.Fabulous restaurant district right next door.The whole thing is amazing.

It is a relatively small museum, you can see the entire collection in an hour, and it's free. Definitely worth the hour.

Amon Carter Museum has hosted many exhibits by artists who paint, sculpt and write about the old west. Paintings and exhibits revealing the life of the cowboys, ranchers and Native Americans are frequently sponsored and the museum itself has its own collection. Artists will love this and historians will be amazed.

The Amon Carter is not for everyone. As its name makes clear - this is a museum for American art. You won't find a Picasso or French impressionists here. But you will find an outstanding collection of real American art. A large collection of Remington and Russell works anchor the museum. Building on this are works from many other American artists including Eakins, Homer and O'Keefe. For anyone who thinks that "real art" comes from Europe, I dare you to come to the Amon Carter and not walk away thoroughly impressed.

There is much western art housed here in addition to a fabulous photography collection and many traveling art collections. The building is first class, the art is internationally acclaimed, and the staff are 'Fort Worth friendly'.

The Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth's museum district is the best place to go if you like Western art. Finest collection of Remington's and Russell's. And it's free!

Wonderful works include paintings and sculpture by Remington and Charles Russell, among others. No admission. Check out the gift shop for unusual items, too.

The permanent art was great. We were in Ft. Worth for the Rodeo, and the museum was in the process of changing exhibits, so much of it was closed off. You would thing they would time the changeover better. The museum is free, so you can't complain too much.

The Remington and Russel bronze sculptures were well worth visiting but the rest of the museum was mediocre.

Exciting well-known cowboy art by paintings and sculpture, mostly by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russel. Displayed well. Nice guards. Adequate light and space.

I would have given Amon Carter an average rating because I don't really connect with what I would call western art, meaning art depicting scenes of cowboys and Indians, etc. However, I visited the museum with several people who are fans, and they were able to help me appreciate the pieces through their appreciation. In light of that experience, I bumped up my rating.

This is a good museum--striking building, city view and free parking. The art is wonderful, particularly the western US artwork. Indeed, seeing the Russell exhibit led us to visit his home & studio in Montana this summer. Other parts of the collection are a pleasure to see, as well. We've been here several times & have been particularly impressed by the way the visiting exhibits help visitors see the strength of other US works of art.

Not crazy about the Philip Johnson building--it's got that sort of "holier than thou" quality of 1960s modernism. The art inside though is another matter entirely.The Amon Carter was founded with a bequest of western art, primarily Remingtons and Russells and things of that kind and committed to collecting the best examples of 19th and early 20th century American paintings to be found. And oh my goodness, did the plan work. The great strength is 19th century American landscape: images of the West, Luminists like Fitz Hugh Lane and Martin Johnson Heade, extraordinary trompe l'oeil still life paintings. There are amazing treats like Grant Wood's "Parson Weem's Fable" and a surprising range of works by the modernism Stuart Davis. I mean, just all kinds of things. Temporary exhibitions are interesting and various. There was a fine photography show and a fascinating one of modern woodcuts pulled entirely from the museum's collection. Then there was the extraordinary "Navigating the West," a show of the paintings of George Caleb Bingham focused on life on the great rivers, the Mississippi, the Missouri and the Ohio. The exhibition was full of Bingham's drawings and produced wonderful new scholarship on the artist's working process, And the pictures were just grand.They gotta get a bigger building though. I am pretty sure I see an expansion in this museum's future. For one thing, they have a few coffee urns but no real cafe. Johnson's building doesn't offer great flexibility in terms of how art can be shown and is problematic when it comes to truly contemporary art and new mediums. Do go--you will certainly enjoy it.