Exhibitions | Amon Carter Museum

Current and Future Exhibitions

Miss the exhibition in Fort Worth? Traveling to other parts of the country? Exhibitions organized by the Amon Carter Museum often travel to other institutions throughout the United States. Touring information appears on the individual exhibition pages below.

June 19, 2009–January 3, 2010

Masterworks of American Photography: Moments in Time

Journey through photography’s history in this sampling of works from the Carter’s renowned permanent collection. This presentation of Masterworks explores the medium’s unique relationship to time.

July 9, 2009–November 29, 2009

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 artistic communities, but in so doing they also created works that embody their artistic and personal ambitions.

September 19, 2009–January 10, 2010

Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820–1970

Experience the intrigue and fascination of the early American West in a special exhibition of nineteenth and twentieth century prints and illustrated books from the Carter’s permanent collection. Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820–1970 features works by American artists who depicted the grand landscapes, wild animals, and rugged individuals of the West.

November 24, 2009–May 17, 2010

Freedom Now: Tamarind Lithography Workshop

This exhibition of prints from the 1960s explores the international call for social and political justice and examines how a handful of artists addressed these themes through irony, satire, allegory, and stark realism.

December 12, 2009–May 16, 2010

Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian

In 1900, Edward S. Curtis undertook the momentous task of documenting American Indian cultures across the United States. Over the next thirty years, he took over 40,000 photographs and collected information about more than eighty tribes, ranging from the Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest. The Amon Carter Museum will display a selection of works from this compelling new acquisition.

February 27, 2010–May 30, 2010

American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Savor the opportunity to view the finest watercolors, pastels, and drawings by leading avant-garde American artists of the early 20th century. This February, these rarely seen artworks, from America’s oldest public art museum, will travel to the Carter in the exhibition American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Artists represented include Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Andrew Wyeth.