From the Amon Carter Museum: "Artist Jean Shin is the next contemporary artist to transform the Museum’s first floor sloping gallery with a new site-specific…
July 19 through June 30, 2025
Richard Hunt: From Paper to Metal
From the Amon Carter Museum of Art: "Drawn from the Museum’s holdings, Richard Hunt: From Paper to Metal highlights the artist’s prints produced at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop during…
October 12 through March 02, 2025
From the Amon Carter Museum of Art: "Dario Robleto: The Signal highlights the artist’s multiyear exploration of the Golden Record, a gold-plated phonograph recording containing…
May 12 through October 27, 2024
Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood
"In May 2024, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) mounts a multimedia examination of photographer and cinematographer Karl Struss’s storied career, focusing…
May 12 through August 25, 2024
From Amon Carter Museum of American Art: "Cowboy reexamines the popular mythologies surrounding the image and concept of the cowboy. Through the work of 28…
September 28 through March 23, 2024
From the Amon Carter Museum of American Art: "Spring 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Richard Avedon, renowned fashion and portrait photographer.…
March 12 through October 01, 2023
Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures
From the Amon Carter Museum of American Art: "This landmark exhibition presents the work of Christina Fernandez, whose photographs and installations explore migration, labor, gender,…
March 12 through July 09, 2023
Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation
From the Amon Carter Museum of American Art: "On view during the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation visualizes what…
March 12 through July 09, 2023
Morning Light: Photographs of David H. Gibson
From the Amon Carter Museum of American Art: "In a world entrenched in societal division and ecological turmoil, it can be refreshing to step back…
February 27 through May 21, 2023
Charles Truett Williams: The Art of the Scene
From Amon Carter Museum of American Art: "An avant-garde existentialist from rural Texas, Charles Truett Williams was a charismatic mix of beatnik and disciplined artist.…
March 13 through May 07, 2023
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography
From the Amon Carter Museum of American Art: "Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography highlights the dynamic ways that Indigenous artists have leveraged their lenses…
October 30 through January 22, 2023
Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision
From Amon Carter Museum: "Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision presents a commissioned, site-specific installation by the artist that uses digital editing and excavation of the Museum’s…
January 15 through January 14, 2023
The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury
From the Amon Carter: "Description: One of the first exhibitions to explore Louise Nevelson’s midcentury sculptures and works on paper in dialogue with their historical…
August 27 through January 07, 2023
Anila Quayyum Agha: A Beautiful Despair
From the Amon Carter Museum of American Art: "Introducing a dozen new ornate works by the multidisciplinary artist, Anila Quayyum Agha: A Beautiful Despair will open this…
September 25 through January 09, 2022
Imagined Realism: Scott and Stuart Gentling
From the Amon Carter Museum of American Art: "Experience the first retrospective of local Fort Worth artists Scott and Stuart Gentling. Imagined Realism: Scott and…
September 25 through January 09, 2022
Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography
"Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography offers the first-ever in-depth examination of the photographic phenomenon of cabinet cards. Cabinet cards were…
August 14 through November 01, 2020
Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce
An exhibition featuring work by Everett Spruce in Fort Worth. From the Museum: "The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) announces Texas Made…
August 18 through November 01, 2020
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain
From the Museum: "The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) will present the first comprehensive survey of the work of Vietnamese-American photographer An-My…
April 18 through August 08, 2020
The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion
Artist Mark Dion retraces the footsteps of several 19th-century explorers in Texas, collecting materials to form a site-specific exhibition you can see only at the…
February 07 through May 17, 2020
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
"The first exhibition chronicling the formative beginnings of Gordon Parks’s extensive career opens at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art September 14, on view…
September 14 through December 29, 2019
An installation by Dallas-based artist Gabriel Dawe commissioned for the Amon Carter Museum of American Art's atrium. For the installation, Dawe used more than 60 miles of colored thread…
August 16 through September 29, 2019
"With the Help of Friends celebrates fifteen dynamic photographs ranging from the 1930s to the present day that were selected and purchased over the recent years…
February 02 through June 02, 2019
Hedda Sterne: Printed Variations
"From luscious leafy tendrils to stark horizon lines, this exhibition of prints by Hedda Sterne celebrates the artist’s variety of formal interests. Although most often…
July 28 through January 27, 2019
Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas
An exhibition featuring works by Texas-based artists Celia Eberle, Kana Harada, Sharon Kopriva, Sherry Owens, and Linda Ridgway.
October 14 through November 18, 2018
Collect This! How to build a fine art collection
"This panel discussion will be moderated by Executive Director Andrew Walker and will include Senior Conservator of Works on Paper, Jodie Utter; local gallerist and…
November 01 through November 01, 2018
Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath
An exhibition of photographs by American artist Dave Heath. Heath was known for his images that emote feelings of loss, pain, hope, and solitude. The show includes…
June 16 through September 16, 2018
An exhibition featuring two short videos by New York photographer-videographer Jan Staller. The pieces "reflect on a potent contradiction of contemporary material life."
February 24 through August 19, 2018
Ellen Carey: Dings, Pulls, and Shadows
An exhibition featuring works by experimental photographer Ellen Carey. The seven works in the show "explore the artist’s interest in color, light, and the photographic process…
January 17 through July 22, 2018
In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar
"This exhibition brings together four bodies of work by the Lebanese-American photographer Rania Matar that trace the development of female identity through portraiture. Depicting transitional…
December 20 through June 17, 2018
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
From the museum: "The Amon Carter is joining the Art+Feminism movement to help expand information on women in American art on Wikipedia. All are welcome. You…
May 24 through May 24, 2018
A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach
"A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach is the first exhibition to investigate the integral relationships between modernism, classicism and popular imagery…
February 17 through May 13, 2018
Artist James Surls will speak about his work, how he started as a sculptor, and the process and materials he uses while displaying images of his work…
March 29 through March 29, 2018
A sculptural installation by Texas artist Darryl Lauster. For this piece, Lauster utilizes fragmentary Carrara marble tablets that have been inscribed with language sourced from various monuments and…
March 25 through March 25, 2018
A show of works on paper that explore outdoor subjects. The exhibition features watercolors and prints by more than thirty artists, including Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington,…
September 23 through February 11, 2018
Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden
A show of works by North Texas photographer Dornith Doherty. The show features Doherty's photographs exploring the planet's botanical diversity.
August 12 through January 14, 2018
Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art
"Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art is the first major exhibition to explore the multifaceted meanings of such outdoor subjects in…
October 07 through January 07, 2018
An exhibition exploring the problematic use of the word "nature" when it is applied to snapshots, portraits, and Native American cultures.
July 15 through December 10, 2017
Fluid Expressions: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler
A show of lithographs, etchings, aquatints, screen prints, and woodcuts by artist Helen Frankenthaler.
March 18 through September 10, 2017
The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology
The Polaroid Project is a survey of how artists have employed Polaroid photography products over the years.
June 03 through September 03, 2017
Join the Amon Carter Museum this summer for a series of films screened on the museum's lawn!
July 13 through July 27, 2017
Avedon in Texas: Selections from In the American West
A show of portraits by Richard Avedon. The photos in the show are part of a series commissioned by the Amon Carter in which Avedon documented the…
February 25 through July 02, 2017
Invented Worlds of Valton Tyler
A show of works by Texas artist Valton Tyler. The show will feature prints, drawings, and large-scale paintings that appear as surrealist landscapes with invented imagery.
February 11 through April 30, 2017
A free event featuring sketchbook making workshops, extended gallery hours, drinks, and music.
April 08 through April 08, 2017
American Photographs, 1845 to Now
An exhibition of more than 70 photographs drawn from the Amon Carter’s permanent collection. The show covers 170 years of photography across America and highlights the important…
August 20 through February 12, 2017
An exhibition of lithographs by printmaker Sam Francis (1923–1994). In his work, Francis was inspired by his travels in France, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand, and by Abstract Expressionism, literature, science,…
August 03 through February 05, 2017
Border Cantos: Richard Misrach | Guillermo Galindo
An exhibition featuring monumental landscape photographs by Richard Misrach along with handmade musical instruments and a sound installation by Guillermo Galindo. The show explores the contested zone of the U.S.-Mexico…
September 24 through December 31, 2016
An exhibition of works exploring how identity is viewed in American culture. The show features, among other objects, drawings by Sedrick Huckaby, prints by Glenn Ligon, and…
April 30 through October 09, 2016
An event featuring live music, food trucks and art! Explore the museum's collection, see Gabriel Dawe's new installation and take a selfie at the museum!
September 17 through September 17, 2016
High Fashion in the American West
Mary Lynn Sloane lectures on the clothing styles depicted in Charles M. Russell’s watercolor When East Meets West (ca. 1907)
September 15 through September 15, 2016
Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis
An exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Norman Lewis. Lewis was an often overlooked contributor to the Abstract Expressionist movement. He created work that…
June 04 through August 21, 2016
Discarded: Photographs by Anthony Hernandez
An exhibition of works by Anthony Hernandez that document abandoned housing developments in California. The images "deliver a disconcerting poignancy that asks us to question…
March 05 through August 07, 2016
Esther Pearl Watson: Pasture Cows Crossing Indian Creek...
A long-term atrium exhibition of a mural-size painting by Texas artist Esther Pearl Watson capturing her childhood memories of Comanche, TX. The piece is titled…
May 19 through May 30, 2016
American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood
An exhibition highlighting the link between Thomas Hart Benton's art and Hollywood movie making. This show brings together nearly 100 works by Benton and juxtaposes them…
February 06 through May 01, 2016
A film series presented by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
February 14 through April 10, 2016
Julie Webb & Esther Pearl Watson
A conversation between Julie Webb & Esther Pearl Watson.
February 25 through February 25, 2016
An exhibition of photographs by Laura Wilson that introduce her vision of the American West as a harsh landscape filled with tough, rugged individuals. Wilson…
September 05 through February 14, 2016
A program where the public can learn, talk, and ask questions about a work of art in the museum's collection. This talk will focus on Robert…
January 23 through January 23, 2016
Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum
An exhibition of works from the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. Presenting about 100 pieces from the museum’s collection, this exhibition addresses…
October 10 through January 03, 2016
Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art
An exhibition of over 100 Native American masterworks from the collection of Charles and Valerie Diker. The show represents tribes across the North American continent,…
July 07 through September 13, 2015
Samuel F. B. Morse: Gallery of the Louvre
The exhibition of Gallery of the Louvre, a large-scale painting by Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), who is best known as the scientist who developed…
May 23 through August 23, 2015
A selection of hand-painted prints by famed scientist and artist John James Audubon (1785–1851)–some of his greatest depictions of North America’s four-legged animals in their…
January 15 through August 02, 2015
David McCullough: The Greater Journey
A talk by acclaimed author David McCullough about his book The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, held in conjunction with the Amon Carter’s exhibition Samuel…
July 18 through July 18, 2015
Fresh Perspectives: Works on Paper by Benito Huerta
July 08 through February 10, 2015
Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River
16 iconic river paintings and 50 preparatory drawings by George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879) depicting boatmen at work and play on the inland rivers, most notably…
October 02 through January 18, 2015
Lecture Series with Mark Thistlethwaite
TCU’s Dr. Mark Thistlethwaite delivers a series of lectures this fall that take as their theme the appearance, meaning, and importance of water (and water-related…
September 03 through December 03, 2014
Discover the Trinity River through the eyes of artist Terry Evans as she discusses her photographs in the exhibition Meet Me at the Trinity: Photographs…
November 08 through November 08, 2014
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
The first retrospective of Motley's paintings in two decades. He is not very well-known, perhaps because his most important works don't come to auction very…
June 14 through September 07, 2014
Underground: Photographs by Kathy Sherman Suder
Images by Fort Worth-based Kathy Sherman Suder, who spent six years photographing people riding the subways of London, New York, and Tokyo. Curated by John Rohrbach,…
March 14 through August 17, 2014
John Albok (1894–1982) was a tailor by profession and an artist by passion. He emigrated from his native Hungary to New York City in 1921…
September 21 through February 23, 2014
John Albok: A Compassionate Vision, lecture
A lecture on the exhibit with PDNB director Burt Finger.
February 09 through February 09, 2014
Color! American Photography Transformed
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art opens Color! American Photography Transformed, an examination of how color has changed the nature of photography. Color! includes…
October 05 through January 05, 2014
Core will discuss her use of color photography in relation to still-life painting in conjunction with the exhibition Color! American Photography Transformed. Reservations are required. Call…
December 05 through December 05, 2013
In conjunction with the exhibition Color!: American Photography Transformed, photographer Richard Misrach will discuss the shift in his career to color film, his changing use…
October 10 through October 10, 2013
Conserving The Caves: a lecture by Claire Barry
The Amon Carter presents Conserving The Caves, a free lecture. Claire Barry, director of conservation will discuss her work on Robert Seldon Duncanson’s painting The Caves…
September 26 through September 26, 2013
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey is an exhibition of nearly 50 artworks by Romare Bearden (1911-1988). The collages, watercolors and prints in the exhibition are based on Homer's…
May 18 through August 11, 2013
Cosindas tested a new instant color film for Polaroid before they marketed it. She took to the process and proved instrumental in revealing the artistic…
March 05 through May 26, 2013
Big, bigger, and biggest photographs reveal a decades-long movement to make dramatic enlargements that sharply influence viewer interaction and interpretation.
March 05 through April 21, 2013
John Rohrbach and Marie Cosindas in conversation
On Thursday, April 18th from 6 to 7 p.m. John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs, will conduct a conversation with pioneering photographer Marie Cosindas. Reservations…
April 18 through April 18, 2013
Larry Sultan’s Homeland: American Story
In 2006, artist Larry Sultan (1946–2009) began a project called Homeland near where he lived in Marin County, California. Sultan’s internationally renowned career was built…
October 16 through January 13, 2013
To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. opened to the public in 1921 as America’s first museum of modern art. To See as Artists See is…
October 06 through January 06, 2013
American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and Their Circle, 1927–1942
The enigmatic and charismatic painter, theoretician and mystic John Graham (1886–1961) and his circle of New York artists, which included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky and…
June 09 through August 19, 2012
Romance Maker: The Watercolors of Charles M. Russell
100 of the finest and best-preserved watercolors by Western artist Charles M. Russell (1864–1926).
February 23 through May 13, 2012
John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury
The last 20 years of American modernist John Marin’s career, from 1933 until his death in 1953. With more than 60 paintings, this is the…
November 05 through January 08, 2012
The Allure of Paper: Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection
In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the Amon Carter presents 100 rarely seen light-sensitive watercolors from it's vaults. Curated by the Carter's Shirley Reece-Hughes, the…
July 09 through October 09, 2011
The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision
Nineteenth-century landscape paintings from the New-York Historical Society in New York are exhibited in the exhibition The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision…
February 26 through June 19, 2011
Keeping It Current: Contemporary Artists Working in Classical Style
Join the conversation in a free panel discussion at the Amon Carter Museum with classically trained contemporary artists whose work is inspired by nineteenth-century Hudson…
May 12 through May 12, 2011
American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White
The Amon Carter Museum offers new insight into the genre of documentary photography during the 1930s in the new exhibition American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White.…
October 02 through January 02, 2011
Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America
The Amon Carter Museum unveils Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to bring together South…
June 26 through September 05, 2010
Masterworks of American Photography: Popular Culture
Immerse yourself in pop culture at the Amon Carter.
January 16 through July 18, 2010
American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art includes some the finest works by leading avant-garde American artists of the early…
February 27 through May 30, 2010
Freedom Now: Tamarind Lithography Workshop
"Freedom Now" is an exhibition of prints from the 1960s that brings the international call for social and political justice to the table. Fight the…
November 24 through May 17, 2010
Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian
The Amon Carter Museum displays a selection of photographs from this recent acquisition. Edward S. Curtis is known for his documentation of American Indian cultures…
December 12 through May 16, 2010
Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820
Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820–1970 showcases approximately 120 prints and illustrated books from the museum’s permanent collection.
September 19 through January 10, 2010
Masterworks of American Photography: Moments in Time
Masterworks of American Photography: Moments in Time presents images from the Carter’s permanent collection that "reflect the diversity and richness of an American visual tradition…
June 19 through January 03, 2010
Circle of Friends: Portraits of Artists
"With the advent of American modernism, artists began making portraits of one another with increasing regularity. Photographers made portraits to document the members of their…
August 16 through November 29, 2009
The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection
The works of more than 50 African-American artists from the late 1800s to the present will be on view as a part of the exhibit…
June 06 through August 23, 2009
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Check out nearly 200 photographs by Barbara Crane, organized by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and guest curated by Kenneth C. Burkhart.
February 14 through May 10, 2009
Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller
Miller was the first American artist to journey into the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Check out more than 85 paintings and drawings from his…
September 20 through January 11, 2009
Nell Dorr: From Everlasting to Everlasting
Dorr's portraits of women and their children are beautifully empathetic and heartfelt. Also on view through Nov. 6 are a group of prints by Louise…
May 17 through October 26, 2008
Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism brings together 38 paintings from Hartley's New Mexico years.
June 14 through August 24, 2008
For serious photography wonks: a show on the first commercially viable color photographic process.
August 18 through July 27, 2008
Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s
Dave Hickey will be at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth on Saturday, March 29 at 11 am for a lecture about how Ft.…
February 16 through May 11, 2008
With New Eyes: Exploration and the American West
Featuring photos from the U.S. government
August 18 through February 03, 2008
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
In Frank Gohlke
September 15 through January 06, 2008
A Sense of Place: Precisionism in America
August 18 through October 14, 2007
Sweet Medicine: Photographing American Indian History
January 01 through July 15, 2007
William H. Johnson: World on Paper
World on Paper examines the artist's printmaking skills and was organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Also read our review by Stefanie Ball-Piwetz.
February 03 through April 08, 2007
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