Fort Worth is an appropriate setting for this private collection of art celebrating the American West, with pieces that capture the emotion, movement, and landscape of the frontier. The gallery, which was renovated in 2006, affords space and appropriate lighting for up to 39 pieces at a time. (The late Sid Richardson's collection includes more than 100 paintings.)
Admirers of art depicting the Old West should tack a visit to the Sid Richardson, now reopened after a yearlong renovation by noted architect David Schwarz, onto a visit at the more important Amon Carter Museum. This small but focused collection, which belonged to a Fort Worth oilman, comprises 60 paintings by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, two late-19th- and early-20th-century...