births
October 19, 1923
Ruth Carter Stevenson, American art collector, founded the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (died 2013)
Ruth Carter Stevenson
Ruth Carter Stevenson was an American patron of the arts and founder of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, which opened in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 1961.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is located in Fort Worth, Texas, in the city's cultural district. The museum's permanent collection features paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by leading artists working in the United States and its North American territories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The greatest concentration of works falls into the period from the 1820s through the 1940s. Photographs, prints, and other works on paper produced up to the present day are also an area of strength in the museum's holdings.