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Remembering Ruth: Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Amon Carter Museum, is Dead at 89

Remembering Ruth: Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Amon Carter Museum, is Dead at 89

By Janet Tyson on January 11, 2013

Amon G. Carter was a man of iron will, blunt charm and big ideas. Her father’s daughter, Ruth Carter Stevenson, inherited his intractibility and vision [...]

Posted in Blog, Reading Room, Uncategorized | Tagged amon carter museum, fort worth, John Singer Sargent, Philip Johnson, ruth carter stevenson, Thomas Eakins | 4 Responses

Ruth Carter Stevenson, Art Patron and Amon Carter Museum Founder, 1923-2013

Ruth Carter Stevenson, Art Patron and Amon Carter Museum Founder, 1923-2013

By Bill Davenport on January 10, 2013

Ruth Carter Stevenson, Philanthropist and President of the Board of Trustees of the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, daughter of oilman, newpaper publisher and [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged amon carter museum, fort worth star-telegram, Philip Johnson, ruth carter stevenson | Leave a response

Philip Johnson’s Thanksgiving Square Chapel

Philip Johnson’s Thanksgiving Square Chapel

By Betsy Lewis on September 8, 2011

With each bright new building added to the Dallas skyline, the city grows more and more impressive, but we Dallasites also risk overlooking those architectural [...]

Posted in Blog, Don't Look. Okay Look., Uncategorized | Tagged Carrara marble, Chapel of Thanksgiving, Gabriel Loire, Glory Window, Philip Johnson, Ring of Thanks, Texas red granite, Thanksgiving Square | 2 Responses

U.S. Post Office, 1933, Wyatt Hedrick, 251 W. Lancaster, Downtown. It ain't called Cowtown for nothing. Cattle helped to grow the early Fort Worth economy and are still an important part of the local culture. So, it's only natural to find cattle imagery everywhere, including the city's main post office where limestone-carved longhorn and Hereford cattle heads decorate the capitals of the building's classical columns. Designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, one of Fort Worth's most prominent and active architects, the post office interior is exquisitely ornamented.

Texas Art Travel: Fort Worth

By Christina Patoski on July 21, 2011

If great cities are measured by their cultural institutions, Fort Worth is extraordinary. Its Cultural District is compact, pedestrian-friendly and internationally famous for the five [...]

Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged 1889 Land Title Block building, 1936 Texas Centennial, amon carter museum, Bass Performance Hall, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Brand 10 Art Space, Charles M. Russell, David Schwarz, Fort Worth Botanic Garden., Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, fort worth cultural district, fort worth modern, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Fort Worth Public Library and Art Gallery Association, Fort Worth Travel, Fort Worth Water Gardens, Frederic Remington, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture LLC, kimbell art museum, Legorreta + Legorreta, Louis Kahn, Marshall Sanguinet, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Moudy Gallery, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Philip Johnson, Renzo Piano, Sid Richardson, Sid Richardson Museum, Sundance Square, Tadao Ando, TCU, Texas Christian University, The Torment of St. Anthony, Will Rogers, Will Rogers Memorial Center | 1 Response

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