Amon Carter Museum of American Art

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is a museum of American painting, sculpture and photography in Fort Worth, Texas. It was donated by Amon G. Carter to take his collection of paintings and sculptures of the " Western " artist Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. In a building of the architect Philip Johnson, the museum was opened in 1961.

Even the first museum director Mitchell A. Wilder broadened the focus of the collection significantly. According to his interpretation of American art history as the history of artists working at different times on their " frontier", he expanded the collection in different directions by the first American landscape painters of the 1830s to modern art of the 20th century. The museum collects American art is still active today. In 2001 the museum was expanded by an extension which was also designed by Philip Johnson.

The collection includes masterpieces by artists such as Alexander Calder, Thomas Cole, Stuart Davis, Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Singer Sargent, Charles Demuth, Martin Johnson Heade and Alfred Stieglitz. Also shown is Thomas Eakins' famous painting Swimming (since 1990 owned by the museum ).

The Amon Carter Museum also has one of the best collections of American photography, consisting of more than 30,000 exhibition prints from about 400 photographers. The photography collection includes works and papers of important American photographers like Laura Gilpin, Eliot Porter and Karl Struss.

The museum is located as the neighboring Art Museums Kimbell Art Museum and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in the " Cultural District " of Fort Worth.