Amon Giles Carter Sr. was the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a nationally known civic booster for Fort Worth, Texas. A legacy in his will was used to create Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum, which was founded by his daughter, Ruth Carter Stevenson, in January 1961.
Amon G. Carter
This Cadillac owned by Amon G. Carter, Sr., is displayed at the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.
Amon G. Carter Plaza, the main entry to Texas Tech University
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA) 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.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Amon Carter Museum of American Art Library Reading Room
Frederic Remington (1861–1909), An Indian Trapper, 1889
Portrait photograph of Charles Marion Russell, c. 1900