Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Western art lore

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art was established from the collection of Amon G. Carter and opened in 1961 in the Fort Worth Cultural District. The museum holds a major collection of works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, artists whose imagery helped shape popular ideas about the American West. Exhibits and interpretive materials at the museum are frequently cited in local histories discussing how Western art contributed to Fort Worth's identity as 'Cowtown.'