The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth has just announced a massive and historical new gift, given in honor of the late Ruth Carter Stevenson (1923-2013) who was…
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JFK: The Fascination Continues with Opera, Performance Art, James Franco, and Money
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOf course there were exhibitions, lectures, and events on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, but yesterday marked the 52nd anniversary and the fascination still continues. Newspapers…
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Historic Modernist Home Demolished in Ft. Worth, Fingers Start Pointing
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonLast Friday, demolition began on the Ruth Carter Stevenson home, an award-winning house of mid-century design at 1200 Broad Avenue in Fort Worth. The demolition began just as preservationists started…
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Remembering Ruth: Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Amon Carter Museum, is Dead at 89
by Janet Tysonby Janet TysonAmon 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 but thinly cloaked it with…
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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 fierce Ft. Worth booster Amon…
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The Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth has gifted itself with Mary Cassatt’s Standing Woman, Holding a Fan (1878-79), a transitional work in distemper (chalk-and-glue paint used for architectural decoration)…