Decision 2008 Tally (as of March 24, 2008)

Make your voice heard at the Carter. Take a moment to cast a vote for your favorite painting and sculpture in the museum’s collection, and then check back to see how your favorite fares in the polls:

Nine Votes
Frederic Remington
A Dash for the Timber

Seven Votes
Thomas Cole
The Hunter’s Return

Five Votes
Georgia O’Keeffe
White Birch

Grant Wood
Parson Weems’ Fable
What’s not to love? Grant Wood’s use of color and form, his treatment of space and scale, and of course the Gilbert Stuart head on the child’s body and the fringe of cherries on the drapery. But above all, the humorous deconstruction of one of America’s great national myths
Katie Solender, 53
Dallas, Texas

Four Votes
Alexander Calder
[Untitled]
Its a mobile
Molly, 4
Aledo, Texas

I love the movement, the change in the shadows on the walls, the sense of fun. I always smile when I see it.
Melissa Thompson, 51
Fort Worth, Texas

John Singer Sargent
Alice Vanderbilt Shepard
I think Singer Sargent is one of the best portrait painters ever, and amongst the top 5 painters who originate from the U.S.
Bernard Victor, 74
London, England

John Quincy Adams Ward
The Freedman

Three Votes
Thomas Eakins
Swimming

Fitz Henry Lane
Boston Harbor

Thomas Moran
Cliffs of Green River

Two Votes
Albert Bierstadt
Sunrise, Yosemite Valley
The artist’s use of light and majestic scenery speaks to all that needs saving in the American West!
Luke F., 19
Portland, Oregon

Stuart Davis
Blips and Ifs
I am drawn to this particular painting because it hints at a very sarcastic approach and response from Davis to his relentless critics. His bold colors and bold approach attract me to this painting.
Aubrey, 19
Charlotte, North Carolina

Daniel Chester French
Benediction

Martin Johnson Heade
Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay
The contrast between the dark and light is powerful given what the country was going through around the time this was painted. The symbolism of the lightening bolt dividing the canvas and the ships still weathering the storm suggests the aftermath of the Civil War and the hard times some of the people were going through.
Katherine, 28
Arlington, Texas

William J. McCloskey
Wrapped Oranges

Georgia O’Keeffe
Black Patio Door
My favorite painting at the Carter is a truly Western painting: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Black Patio Door from 1955. It’s one of many ‘patio door’ paintings O’Keeffe made in northern New Mexico, and one of the most abstract. (No surprise there: O’Keeffe was America’s first great abstract painter.)
Tyler Green
Washington, D.C.

Frederic Remington
The Cowboy

Frederic Remington
Ridden Down
Depicts the bravery and love his horse in the face of destruction.
James C. Heatwole, 70
Denton, Texas

One Vote
Saul Baizerman
Cantata

Paul Bartlett
Bear Cub Grooming

Alexander Calder
Studies for Amon Carter Museum Plaza

Alexander Stirling Calder
An American Stoic
The simplicity and beauty of the lines-I just love looking at it.
Joan Wells, 61
Fort Worth, Texas

Thomas Cole
The Garden of Eden

Charles Demuth
Chimney and Water Tower
When I think of American painting, I think of grandiose landscapes illustrating manifest destiny and quite frankly it bores me.
J.A. Casey, 21
Detroit, Michigan

William M. Harnett
Ease

Marsden Hartley
Provincetown Abstraction

Martin Johnson Heade
Two Hummingbirds above a White Orchid

David Johnson
Eagle Cliff, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire

Georgia O’Keeffe
Dark Mesa and Pink Sky

Georgia O’Keeffe
Series I – No. 1

William T. Ranney
Marion Crossing the Pee Dee

Frederic Remington
Coming Through the Rye
It lives-breathes movement
Steve Ziegler
Dallas, Texas

Frederic Remington
Through the Smoke Sprang the Daring Soldier

Frederic Remington
The Right of the Road

Frederic Remington
The Rattlesnake

Frederic Remington
The Grass Fire

Severin Roesen
Still Life of Flowers and Fruit with a River Landscape in the Distance

Charles M. Russell
Counting Coup

Ben Shahn
World’s Greatest Comics

Morton Livingston Schamberg
Figure

Neither Paintings nor Sculpture, but Still Favorites
Carlotta Corpron
Bisymmetric Design
I love this photo not only for the way it looks, but also for its history. The abstraction and composition are intriguing, but it just amazes me that Corpron made these in Denton (of all places!) with Moholoy-Nagy (of all people!) way back in the 1940s. I called Denton home for several years and love the Bauhaus aesthetic, so I feel a real connection to this work.
Jana Hill, 33
Fort Worth, Texas

Arthur Dove
Team of Horses
Because it brilliantly communicates energy, force, and motion through repetition of a few simple forms.
Scott Winterrowd, 37
Dallas, Texas

Robert Glenn Ketchum
Cosmic Trees
The colors are amazing and I’ve always loved nature photography.
Katherine Moloney, 55
Fort Worth, Texas

— Nora P., March 24, 2008, 10:30 a.m.