From Remington to O’Keeffe: The Carter’s Greatest Hits

October 6, 2018–March 22, 2019

First floor and mezzanine

Since its opening in January 1961, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art has acquired one of the world’s finest collections of American paintings, photographs, sculpture, and works on paper. Key selections from the collection—from epic landscape and western paintings, elegant still lifes, and singular representations of war and exploration, to unparalleled modernist sculptures and abstractions—are featured in an exciting presentation that reveals the singularity of the Amon Carter collection.

Exhibition Highlights

George Bellows

The Fisherman, 1917

Oil on canvas

2016.9

An oil painting of a man standing on rocks while fishing in a treacherous sea.

Frederic Remington

The Broncho Buster, 1909

Bronze

1961.4

Grant Wood

Parson Weems' Fable, 1939

Oil on canvas

1970.43

A painting of a White man pulling back a red curtain to reveal an outdoor scene of a small George Washington holding a hatchet near a damaged cherry tree and a taller man next to him gesturing angrily toward the damaged tree.

Thomas Eakins

Swimming, 1885

Oil on canvas

1990.19.1

An oil painting of a group of nude young men diving off of rocks into a calm body of water.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Diana, ca. 1894

Cement and plaster

1981.67

Frederic Remington

A Dash for the Timber, 1889

Oil on canvas

1961.381

An oil painting of a group of men on horseback riding directly toward the viewer, shooting guns over their shoulders at people in pursuit.

To rejuvenate the presentation of our collection, we are in the process of renovating our galleries. Updates to the flooring, lighting, and wall configurations will provide a richer experience of the collection and will better serve our visitors. During the renovation, From Remington to O’Keeffe: The Carter’s Greatest Hits, on view in the front galleries, features highlights from the permanent collection, including paintings, photographs, and sculptures, by some of America’s most renowned artists. George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, William Henry Jackson, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens are a few of the artists represented. Key examples from their careers alongside works by other preeminent artists reveal the vast expanse of American creativity dating from the 1820s to the 1960s.