Past Exhibitions
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Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce
August 15–November 1, 2020Experience the Texas landscape like you’ve never seen it before. Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce revitalizes Spruce’s legacy and returns it to its place in the history of American art.
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Culture Shock: American Artists from Europe, 1913–1953
March 14–September 6, 2020See American art through international eyes. From experimental abstractions to politically charged themes, this exhibition brings together nearly forty prints and drawings created by artists who immigrated to America from Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.
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The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion
February 8–July 5, 2020Part explorer, part historian, and part naturalist, artist Mark Dion retraces the footsteps of several 19th-century Texas explorers, collecting materials to form an exhibition that enhances our understanding of the past and brings it to life in the present day.
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Eliot Porter’s Birds
December 21, 2019–July 5, 2020While he is internationally celebrated for his colorful renderings of the natural world, Eliot Porter’s Birds highlights Porter's equal, career-long focus on photographing birds through more than thirty photographs and archival objects with the artist’s extensive writings.
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Looking In: Photography from the Outside
December 21, 2019–July 5, 2020Looking In: Photography from the Outside examines the way artists have photographed groups they are not part of through an in-depth look at series by six important 20th-century artists who navigated their role as “outsider” differently.
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Tracing the Past: Scott and Stuart Gentling’s Birds of Texas
December 7, 2019–March 8, 2020Fort Worth artists Scott and Stuart Gentling paid tribute to their artistic predecessors in their watercolors, carefully reinventing historical poses and compositions of birds before inserting them in backdrops of unique Texas landscapes.
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Puente Nuevo by Justin Favela
September 10, 2019–November 15, 2020Commissioned for the reopening of the Carter, Puente Nuevo is an immersive experience of large-scale artwork made from the materials used to construct piñatas.
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Set in Motion: Camille Utterback and Art That Moves
September 3–December 8, 2019This exhibition pairs an interactive installation by new-media artist Camille Utterback with a century of art by women depicting motion from the Carter’s collection.
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Seeing in Detail: Scott and Stuart Gentling's Birds of Texas
September 3–December 1, 2019When you view Scott and Stuart Gentling’s watercolors of Texas birds, you’ll want to get close. The level of detail is extraordinary—hundreds of brushstrokes make up each feather, and there are hundreds of feathers!
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Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950
August 31–December 29, 2019From his fashion photographs to his thoughtful depictions of American life, Parks used the camera as his tool for proclaiming the value of an American community built on freedom and equality.
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With the Help of Friends
February 2–June 2, 2019With the Help of Friends celebrates 15 dynamic photographs ranging from the 1930s to the present day that were selected and purchased over the recent years by the Carter with the assistance of its photography collection supporters.
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From Remington to O’Keeffe: The Carter’s Greatest Hits
October 6, 2018–March 22, 2019During the renovation, this exhibition features highlights from the permanent collection, including paintings, photographs, and sculptures, by some of America’s most renowned artists.
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Hedda Sterne: Printed Variations
July 28, 2018–January 27, 2019From luscious leafy tendrils to stark horizon lines, this exhibition of prints by Hedda Sterne drawn from the Carter’s collection celebrates the artist’s exquisite variety of formal interests.
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In Our Own Words: Native Impressions
June 30–October 7, 2018In Our Own Words features a portfolio of vibrantly colored printed portraits by Daniel Heyman and Lucy Ganje, who collaborated in portraying present-day members of North Dakota Indian nations.
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The Theatrical Wild West
June 29–October 7, 2018This exhibition explores how the genre of western entertainments impacted American visual culture, from popular posters and calendars to fine art drawings, paintings, and sculpture.