![Remembering Ruth: Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Amon Carter Museum, is Dead at 89](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130117033141im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ruth-carter-stevenson1-150x150.jpg)
Remembering Ruth: Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Amon Carter Museum, is Dead at 89
Amon G. Carter was a man of iron will, blunt charm and big ideas. Her father’s daughter, Ruth Carter Stevenson, inherited his intractibility and vision but thinly cloaked it with her own brand of old-school femininity. Her death on January 6 almost completely severs Fort Worth’s last links with the larger-than-life figures who made it [...]
![Ruth Carter Stevenson, Art Patron and Amon Carter Museum Founder, 1923-2013](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130117033141im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ruth-carter-stevenson-150x150.jpg)
Ruth Carter Stevenson, Art Patron and Amon Carter Museum Founder, 1923-2013
Ruth Carter Stevenson, Philanthropist and President of the Board of Trustees of the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, daughter of oilman, newpaper publisher and fierce Ft. Worth booster Amon G. Carter Sr. (1879–1955), died at her home in Ft. Worth on January 6. She was 89. Stevenson was solely responsible for seeing that her [...]
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Carter Bags Elusive Cassatt for its 50th Birthday Present
The Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth has gifted itself with Mary Cassatt’s Standing Woman, Holding a Fan (1878-79), a transitional work in distemper (chalk-and-glue paint used for architectural decoration) by the only American woman who counts as a French Impressionist. The acquisition honors the museum’s 50th anniversary and Ruth Carter Stevenson, daughter of Amon [...]