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
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 [...]
Philip Johnson’s Thanksgiving Square Chapel
With each bright new building added to the Dallas skyline, the city grows more and more impressive, but we Dallasites also risk overlooking those architectural treasures that have grown familiar over time, like a tiny Philip Johnson project in the heart of downtown. Johnson designed an entire park – Thanksgiving Square (technically triangular) – under [...]
Texas Art Travel: Fort Worth
If great cities are measured by their cultural institutions, Fort Worth is extraordinary. Its Cultural District is compact, pedestrian-friendly and internationally famous for the five renowned museums lined up right next to each other. Designed by a stellar roster of blue chip architects, including Pritzker Prize winners Philip Johnson and Tadao Ando, each building has [...]