5/9/11

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth TX

High on a hill, overlooking the nearby Kimbell and Modern Art Museums to the east, sits the Phillip Johnson designed Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Note how Johnson pays homage to Louis Kahn by reinterpreting the Kimbell's five barrel vaults in the arched portico that shelters a front wall of glass windows two stories high.  This curtained glass wall separated “the art from the city, the cool from the warm, the peaceful from the active, the still from the windy,” wrote Johnson.
Two additions over the years were not enough to house the growing collection, and in 1998, Philip Johnson was again asked to spearhead a new design, increasing the original space by six times. He called the Amon Carter Museum “the building of my career” because it represents a complete and singular example of his work.



Established after his death in 1955 to house Mr. Carter's vast collection of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell paintings and sculptures, the Museum's first director expanded its mission to include a wider scope of American Art in 1961. A rich collection now includes works from the first landscape painters of the 1830s to modern artists of the twentieth century, as well as one of the most prominent photography collections in the country.











I cannot tell a lie; I think you'll enjoy the Amon Carter Museum!

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