Since last winter went so swimmingly, let's try it again! TFS has very graciously opened her home in the west San Fernando Valley to me again. This time her daughter AS (and dog and cat) are there too. Two women + two dogs + two cats = not my usual solitary winter again. Huzzah! Place name links like Los Angeles, CA go to Wikipedia. Place name links like Los Angeles use a local tourism or government website.
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Amon Carter Museum of American Art |
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It's a hot muggy Sunday on our last weekend in Texas. A good day to be in air-conditioned surroundings. Like the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX . And, parking and admission are free! |
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Remington wanted some men for a "big cowboy picture." That picture launched his career when it received favourable critical attention at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1890. |
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Frederic Remington
The Broncho Buster, [large version], copyrighted 1895, altered 1909, cast #5, 1914 | |
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Severin Roesen
Still Life of Flowers and Fruit with a River Landscape in the Distance, 1867 | |
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| Texas Regionalism |
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| That's it for the lobby and front galleries. Now we go down the hall to the back of the building, then upstairs. |
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2nd Floor
Classical
The walls were painted a very studied steel-blue, very unusual in a gallery. | |
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(T) Archery of the Apaches, ca 1855
(B) Bivouac of the Author, after 1852 | |
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Seth Eastman
Ballplay of the Dakota on The St. Peter's River in Winter, 1848 |
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James Walker
(T) The Termination of Captain Philip Kearny's Famous Charge, Ixtachebuatl [sic], ca 1850
(B) The Commencement of Captain Philip Kearny's Famous Charge, Ixtachebuatl [sic], ca 1850 | |
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Carl Wimar
The Abduction of Boone's Daughter by the Indians, 1855-56 | |
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caption for image left | |
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| TFS really likes Louise Nevelson 's work. She was happy to see (and touch - tsk!) this one. | |
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Carroll Thayer Berry
(LT) Winslow Homer's Studio - Maine Coast, ca 1937
(LB) Study for Winslow Homer's Studio - Maine Coast, ca 1937
(R) Winslow Homer
Eight Bells, 1887
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John James Audubon
Yellow Billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus carolensis, Plant Popaw Porceliatriloba, 1827
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(L) SP VI, 1967
(R) SP VII, 1967 |
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Remington and Russell
This gallery is more like a study room. There are numerous examples of finished works, and recessed drawers with preparatory sketches.
Art & Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine
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I'd show you this exhibition, but photography wasn't allowed. We were hungry after though.
Another no-photography exhibit was James McNeill Whistler: Lithographs from the Steven L. Block Collection at the Speed Art Museum.
A third was an exhibit of oversized photographs of people riding urban transit in various large cities. Rather ironic that photos weren't allowed of this one. |
All Done!
The museum walls
are limestone, which
contain cavities from
the bodies of the
aquatic shelled
animals it once held. | |
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A very pleasant and informative museum. I know a lot more about the two main artists than I ever did.
Back we go into the heat. Out front there is a depressed grassy area that looks like a dry pond with a tree and a sculpture interrupting a wide walkway around the depression. |
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front courtyard with
Fort Worth skyline
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Is that? Could it be? | |
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| Yup, more
Henry Moore
(L) Upright Motive #7, 1955-56
(C) Glenkiln Cross, 1955-56
(R) Upright Motive #2, 1955-56
This time nothing is reclining. | | |
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