Beginning in July, selections from the Sid Richardson collection will be on view as that institution is closed for expansion.

More than 500 artworks from the Amon Carter Museum’s renowned permanent collection of American art will be on view this summer in 12 installations featuring all media—painting, sculpture, photography, prints, drawings, watercolors, and important books and maps from the museum’s library and archives.

A diverse schedule of free adult and family public programs related to the museum’s collections will be presented this summer. Free tours are offered Tuesday through Sunday at 2 p.m. During the summer, the Carter will also offer free tours on Saturdays at 3 p.m. that focus on photographers such as Ansel Adams, Irving Penn and Alfred Stieglitz, whose works are on view in the photography galleries. Visitors can also see examples of early photographic processes on the Carter’s Photography Art Cart in the galleries every Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Beginning in July, selections from the Sid Richardson collection will be on view as that institution is closed for expansion. The Carter’s Special Exhibitions Gallery is closed for the summer in preparation for In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon, September 17, 2000 – January 8, 2006.

Amon Carter Museum Summer 2005 Exhibition Schedule

Permanent Collection Paintings and Sculpture
Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, second floor
See some of the nation’s finest masterpieces of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American painting and sculpture on the Carter’s second floor.

Remington and Russell
Main Gallery and Atrium Gallery, first floor
Paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, the two greatest artists of the American West, are on view in the Carter’s first-floor galleries.

Becoming Texas Today
Through June 26
Artists and Texas Galleries, second floor
This exhibition offers photographers’ reflections on three key cultures that helped build and define today’s Texas, from the open range in the early twentieth century, to the oil economy in the 1940s, to the urbanization of the twenty-first century. See how these images provide a fascinating look at changes in the state during the past 100 years. Photographers include Erwin E. Smith, Russell Lee, and Skeet McAuley.

The Collodion Era in Photography
Through July 31
Focus on Photographs Gallery, second floor
Introduced in 1851, the wet-collodion process revolutionized the young art of photography and rapidly supplanted the daguerreotype. Learn about the process and see examples of ambrotypes, tintypes, and photographs produced during the collodion era, as well as examples of contemporary works by photographers who use the process today.

Into the Night
August 13, 2005 – February 5, 2006
Photography Galleries, second floor
A remarkable group of landscapes, portraits and abstractions explores the beauty and mysteries layered within nocturnal images in the Carter’s Focus on Photographs Gallery.

Kipton Kumler: A Portfolio of Plants
Through July 31
Photography Galleries, second floor
A small installation of ten meticulously crafted platinum-palladium prints reveals photographer Kipton Kumler’s transformation of plants, through close-up photography, into graphic images of form and light.

An Artistic Legacy: Photographers’ Archives at the Carter
Through August 14
Photography Galleries, second floor
Explore the depth of the Carter’s photographers’ archives in this installation of works by Carlotta Corpron, Nell Dorr, Laura Gilpin, Eliot Porter, Erwin E. Smith, and Karl Struss.

Masterworks of American Photography
Current installation through September 18, 2005
Photography Galleries, second floor
Visit the Carter again and again to view this changing exhibition of more than fifty selections from the museum’s renowned collection of over 30,000 exhibition-quality photographs. Highlights in this installation include works by Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Hine, Clara Sipprell, Timothy O’Sullivan, Ansel Adams and Irving Penn.

The Art of Twentieth-Century American Illustrators from the Collections
May 28–December 18, 2005
Works on Paper Gallery, second floor
Compare and contrast works from the Carter’s extensive collection of twentieth-century illustrated books with prints by the same artists/illustrators from the museum’s collection of works on paper.

Nineteenth-Century Texana
July 16–December 8, 2005
Artists and Texas Galleries, second floor
Chart your way through more than twenty historic maps from the Amon Carter Museum library and archive holdings that highlight representations of Texas during the period of exploration and settlement.

The Spirit of 291
August 13, 2005–February 5, 2006
Photography Galleries, second floor
Join the Carter in celebrating the centennial of the founding of Alfred Stieglitz’s Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession with a small exhibition of works that offers a unique opportunity to experience the flavor of the legendary gallery that became known simply as 291. In operation from November 1905 until June 1917 for only 12 years, 291 was home to innovative exhibitions devoted to European and American vanguard art. This installation pays homage to the young American artists, such as Paul Strand, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Georgia O’Keeffe, whose careers flourished under Stieglitz’s watchful eye and careful nurturing.

Special Exhibition Schedule 2005 – 2006

In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon
September 17, 2005–January 8, 2006
In 1979, the Amon Carter Museum commissioned renowned photographer Richard Avedon (1923–2004) to create a portrait of the American West. The resulting 1985 exhibition, In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon, was widely regarded as a landmark in photographic history and a definitive expression of the power of photographic art. In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of this history-making project, the Carter presents a special exhibition of 78 of the 124 original photographs. Complete press release available at http://www.cartermuseum.org/pr/newdocs/avedon.html.

In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon, A Twentieth Anniversary was organized by the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Generous funding for the exhibition is provided by the Katrine M. Deakins and Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trusts, Bank of America.

Patterns of Progress: Bird’s-Eye Views of Texas
February 18–May 28, 2006
Soar above the cities and towns of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas to catch a bird’s-eye view of their patchworks of streets, buildings, railroads, and rivers. More than 70 highly detailed and oversized prints in this special exhibition will offer a fascinating chronicle of one of the greatest periods of urban growth in Texas history. From Abilene, Alvord, and Austin to Waco and Wichita Falls, see what many of your favorite towns looked like more than 100 years ago.

Beginning summer 2005, an electronic publication entitled Texas Bird’s-Eye Views will present approximately 60 of these views on the Carter’s Web site, where Web visitors can “zoom in” and find precise details. This project is made possible by a generous grant from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation representing BNSF Railway Company.

Regarding the Land: Robert Glenn Ketchum and the Legacy of Eliot Porter
September 16, 2006 – January 7, 2007
Experience the breathtaking beauty of landscape photography through the lenses of two of the artform’s most important artists: Eliot Porter (1901–1990) and Robert Glenn Ketchum (b. 1947). Porter’s groundbreaking efforts led to widespread acceptance of color photography as an artistic medium and set a new expressive standard for depicting nature. Ketchum, also devoted to color landscape photography, was inspired by Porter’s work and by his understanding that photographs provide a vivid vehicle for building popular appreciation for places of natural beauty and ecological importance that are environmentally threatened. This exhibition of approximately 80 works will shed light on the two artists’ interwoven efforts to photographically define the land. The third section of the exhibition will feature many of Ketchum’s highly innovative works that explore artistic possibilities Porter never could have imagined, including prints that are up to six feet in length, as well as large-scale silk embroidery derived from his photography created in collaboration with the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute in China.