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Amon Carter Museum of American Art

A Fort Worth Cultural District museum of American art with Remington and Russell Western works, landscapes and a deep photography collection.

3501 Camp Bowie Blvd · Fort Worth, TX

About Amon Carter Museum of American Art

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art opened in 1961 in a building designed by Philip Johnson on Camp Bowie Boulevard. Its collection holds more than 400 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, plus Hudson River School landscapes by Thomas Cole and Frederic Church and works by Georgia O'Keeffe. The photography holdings run to more than 350,000 works. Sketchpads and pencils are welcome in the galleries.

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