Amon Carter Museum of Western Art records
name: label: Creator
content: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
label: Names
content: Carter, Amon Giles, 1879-1955
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- West (U.S.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.
label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1985 by the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art.
creator: label: Creator
content: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art opened to the public in 1961. The Amon G. Carter Foundation, established by newspaper publisher Amon G. Carter, built the structure. Carter, the publisher of the Forth Worth Star-Telegram, acquired many works of art by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell which are now part of the museum's permanent collection. In 2010 the museum changed its name to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- Texas
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.amoncart
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3420-3424 available for use only at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The microfilmed Amon Carter Museum of Western Art records include exhibition schedules (1961-1983); scrapbooks (1961-1984), containing newspaper clippings, magazine articles, news releases, printed material about exhibitions, lectures, symposiums and music and film series sponsored by the museum, and photographs of gallery installations and museum guests; and newsletters from the Education Department.