Sid Richardson Museum: Fort Worth, Texas

Where: Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
(top picture: Indians Hunting Buffalo by Charles M. Russell)

It is a very small museum in Fort Worth, Texas. I visited there last fall when I was around the area for business. The museum has good collections of 2 American artists, Frederic Sackrider Remington and Charles Marion Russel. Both of them were active around the beginning of 20th century, painting pictures of Old West---native Americans, hunting, horses and cowboys. Many of the pictures take academic, realistic style, these themes could easily turn be cheesy paintings-- but Russel and Remington succeeded to pull them up to higher level of art. I  was particularly found of Remington's "Night" series, which are his later works. They take more impressionistic style. The pictures here are all Remington, from the postcards I bought there. The color of the photos are a lot more beautiful in real ones....