Decision 2008: Final Results
The results are in and A Dash for the Timber has won by a landslide. Thank you to the almost two hundred people who participated in our little project. I hope to see you at one (or all) of the Visitors’ Voice programs this summer. These fun, interactive tours will be based on your votes and responses.
The Winner with Eighteen Votes
Frederic S. Remington
A Dash for the Timber
Eleven Votes
Grant Wood
Parson Weems’ Fable
Pulling back the curtain refers to another of my favorite paintings by Peele (I think).
Dana Harper, 33
Fort Worth, Texas
I saw this painting years ago in a grade school text. The painting captured my young imagination each time I returned to the text’s page. So when I came upon the actual painting in the Carter’s gallery, I was struck with a multitude of memories and a greater appreciation.
Fred Puckett, 37
Fort Worth, Texas
Ten Votes
Thomas Cole
The Hunter’s Return
Very colorful and very detailed
Georgina Shockley, 44
Austin, Texas
Nine Votes
William J. McCloskey
Wrapped Oranges
Five Votes Each
Albert Bierstadt
Sunrise, Yosemite Valley
Alexander Calder
[Untitled]
Martin Johnson Heade
Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay
Thomas Moran
Cliffs of Green River
Georgia O’Keeffe
White Birch
John Singer Sargent
Alice Vanderbilt Shepard
John Quincy Adams Ward
The Freedman
Four Votes Each
Thomas Eakins
Swimming
William M. Harnett
Ease
The 3-D effect without 3-D glasses, the “just this moment” feel of the painting.
Doug Black, 49
Coleman, Texas
Subject matter tells its own story
Robin Black, 49
Coleman, Texas
Fitz Henry Lane
Boston Harbor
Three Votes Each
Thomas Cole
The Garden of Eden
Stuart Davis
Blips and Ifs
Daniel Chester French
Benediction
Sanford Robinson Gifford
The View from Eagle Rock, New Jersey
Marsden Hartley
Provincetown Abstraction
Thomas Hovenden
Chloe and Sam
Frederic S. Remington
The Cowboy
Frederic S. Remington
The Old Stage Coach of the Plains
Frederic S. Remington
Ridden Down
Two Votes Each
Alexander Calder
Studies for Amon Carter Museum Plaza
Alexander Stirling Calder
An American Stoic
Stuart Davis
Chinatown
Charles Demuth
Chimney and Water Tower
Marsden Hartley
American Indian Symbols
David Johnson
Eagle Cliff, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire
Louise Nevelson
Lunar Landscape Wall
I would never have chosen this had it not been for my son’s marked attraction to it. At first, I could see only its black color and collection of random shapes; now, I think about it and look at it and think how the negation of what the individual objects were releases them to something altogether new.
Katharine Smith, 50
Houston, Texas
Georgia O’Keeffe
Black Patio Door
Georgia O’Keeffe
Dark Mesa and Pink Sky
William T. Ranney
Marion Crossing the Pee Dee
Frederic S. Remington
The Right of the Road
Ben Shahn
World’s Greatest Comics
One Vote Each
Saul Baizerman
Cantata
Paul Bartlett
Bear Cub Grooming
George Caleb Bingham
View of Pike’s Peak
Henry Kirke Brown
Filatrice (The Spinner)
Frederic Edwin Church
New England Landscape
Arthur Dove
The Lobster
John Haberle
Can You Break a Five?
William M. Harnett
Attention Company
Martin Johnson Heade
Two Hummingbirds above a White Orchid
Winslow Homer
Crossing the Pasture
Georgia O’Keeffe
Series I – No. 1
Julian Onderdonk
A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas
John Frederick Peto
A Closet Door
Alexander Phimister Proctor
Indian Warrior
Frederic S. Remington
The Broncho Buster_
Frederic S. Remington
Cavalry in an Arizona Sand-Storm
I just like it
Clover L. Hewell, 32
Weatherford, Texas
Frederic S. Remington
Coming Through the Rye
Frederic S. Remington
The Fall of the Cowboy
Frederic S. Remington
Through the Smoke Sprang the Daring Soldier
Frederic S. Remington
The Rattlesnake
Frederic S. Remington
The Grass Fire
Severin Roesen
Still Life of Flowers and Fruit with a River Landscape in the Distance
Charles M. Russell
A Bronc Twister
Charles M. Russell
Counting Coup
Charles M. Russell
In Without Knocking
Charles M. Russell
The Buffalo Hunt, [No.39]
Charles M. Russell
Wild Horse Hunters
I like the subject matter and the entire drama of roping the wild horses. The colors, vivid, realistic, and yet dreamy give you a sense like you are there covered in dust and smelling like the great outdoors.
David Hewell, 36
Weatherford, Texas
Morton Livingston Schamberg
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