Exhibitions | Amon Carter Museum

Current and Future Exhibitions

Miss the exhibition in Fort Worth? Traveling to other parts of the country? Exhibitions organized by the Amon Carter Museum often travel to other institutions throughout the United States. Touring information appears on the individual exhibition pages below.

May 25, 2010–December 5, 2010

Leon Polk Smith: The Tamarind Lithography Workshop

Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996) was a leading practitioner of the geometric, hard-edge abstraction popular in the mid-twentieth century. This exhibition of fifteen prints from the Carter’s permanent collection embraces both Smith’s American Indian heritage and the modernist abstraction of artists like Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944).

May 29, 2010–November 7, 2010

Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light

This exhibition of forty landmark and lesser-known works by the renowned artist-photographer is drawn from the Carter’s holdings and a private collection.

June 26, 2010–September 5, 2010

Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s

Featuring approximately eighty seldom-seen paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings, and films, this exhibition juxtaposes the work from artists of the Americas, providing a fresh and innovative look at this dynamic and cosmopolitan period of modernism.

August 14, 2010–January 23, 2011

Masterworks of American Photography: Popular Culture

This fall’s Masterworks of American Photography exhibition explores the role of photography as a medium of documentation. Photographs document all manner of events, both public and private, as well as people, places, and phenomena large and small.

October 2, 2010–January 2, 2011

American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White

This special exhibition demonstrates how documentary photography transformed modern art in America through an examination of the work of photographers Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans.