The Amon Carter Museum reopened on Saturday, August 18 at 10 a.m., following its closure this summer to undergo repairs to the building’s fire suppression system.
“We turned adversity into opportunity by using the time to refocus on the museum’s mission and to renew our promise to connect visitors to the American experience through great works of art,” said Director Ron Tyler. “The galleries have been reinstalled with this promise in mind. We have an excellent schedule of exhibitions and public programs this fall, and everyone can come to the Carter to see all of the exhibitions here without having to pay an admission fee.”
“The Amon Carter Museum is the community’s museum, a place where everyone is welcome, where people can come to be inspired and energized,” Tyler said. “Art should have a place in everyone’s life, and the Carter—with its friendly atmosphere and world-class collection—is the perfect place to make that happen.”
Exhibitions Now on View
Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster
Through October 14, 2007
This special exhibition represents the first in-depth examination of one of America’s greatest and most influential artistic achievements. From 1927 to 1933, Charles Demuth created a series of paintings depicting industrial sites in his hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Today, the works symbolize a culminating moment in American modernism.
A Sense of Place: Precisionism in America
Through October 14, 2007
A selection of works on paper from the Carter’s collection depict Precisionism, the style employed by Charles Demuth in his paintings in the special exhibition Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster.
With New Eyes: Exploration and the American West
Through December 2, 2007
Explore the contributions of the photographers who participated in the U.S. government’s four surveys of the West that began in 1867, two years before the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Together, these artists helped define the West we know today.
100 Years of Autochrome
Through July 27, 2008
Photographs and other materials from the Carter’s collection celebrate the centennial anniversary of the autochrome, the first commercially viable color photographic process.
Masterworks of American Photography
Through January 13, 2008
The Carter holds one of the country’s largest and most important collections of photographs. This exhibition features works from the earliest years of the medium up to the present day, grouped in categories of portraiture, still life, documentary and street photography, and landscape.
The Carter’s renowned collection of American paintings and sculpture, including the world’s most important collection of works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, are on permanent display.
Opening in September
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
September 15, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Contemporary artist Frank Gohlke (b. 1942), one of this country’s leading photographers, helped redefine landscape art away from majestic vistas of untouched grandeur to scenes that capture humanity’s wonderfully complex and oftentimes poignant relationship with the natural world. Experience his photographs at the Amon Carter Museum.
