Decision 2008 (Update April 29)

Every time another candidate starts to close the gap, Dash for the Timber races further ahead. There are only a few weeks left in this “election.” 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:

Sixteen Votes
Frederic Remington
A Dash for the Timber

It represents the romance and legend associated with Texas. After all, Fort Worth is “where the West begins…” for the world!
Mary L. (Cindy) Montgomery, 55
Arlington, Texas

I enjoy the combination of skill, color, story, composition, action, and complex characterization in a distinctly Western setting. It has European echoes, but is decisively American.
Linda Jenkins, 63
Fort Worth, Texas

To me, this is what this museum is…great western Americana of the early and mid-1800s. I know the Carter is so much, much more, but thank the Good Lord that Mr. Carter wanted to preserve and share this great work.
Jesse Pierrard, 58
Fort Worth, Texas

Because it just pops out at you.
Austin Anderson, 12
White Settlement, Texas

This picture has so many individual pieces and everyone is intriguing to me. I love the center horse whose eyes follow you wherever you move in the room. I love the soldiers looking back while others are looking forward. This painting is the epitome of classic western art. I take several moments each time I am in the museum to look at it again.
Cliff Holden, 50
Fort Worth, Texas

Nine Votes
Thomas Cole
The Hunter’s Return

William J. McCloskey
Wrapped Oranges

Ever since the ACM purchased this luminous still life, it has jumped off the wall every time I have passed. I have sought out other McCloskey wrapped fruit paintings, and none compare to this masterpiece. It is a gem.
Robert Bass
Fort Worth, Texas

I love how real this painting looks. To me, this painting is “alive!”
Anita Grimes, 37
Aledo, Texas

This painting awakens all of my senses. Visual, of course, but I can hear the crackling of the paper around the orange, feel the bumpy exterior of the oranges underneath the crisp paper, smell the wonderful orange smell, and of course imagine what they would taste like once the paper and peel are gone.
Kim V, 40
Fort Worth, Texas

Grant Wood
Parson Weems’ Fable
This painting is easy to connect to literature. Themes in the painting (cherry shaped curtains, vivid colors, etc.) can be used to teach themes in literature.
Diane Kue, 29
Fort Worth, Texas

Five Votes Each
Georgia O’Keeffe
White Birch

John Singer Sargent
Alice Vanderbilt Shepard

John Quincy Adams Ward
The Freedman

Four Votes Each
Albert Bierstadt
Sunrise, Yosemite Valley
I believe that Bierstadt conveys the beauty, grandeur, and opportunity of the West in this painting. It touches upon some themes central to the West such as exploration, Manifest Destiny, and conserving nature. Additionally, I really like Hudson River School, and while this may be a touch out of time period, it is my favorite Bierstadt.
Allan Mauldin, 45
Anniston, Alabama

Alexander Calder
[Untitled]

Thomas Eakins
Swimming

Martin Johnson Heade
Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay

Fitz Henry Lane
Boston Harbor

Thomas Moran
Cliffs of Green River

Three Votes Each
Thomas Cole
The Garden of Eden
Because it is so green and realistic.
Mary Kate Dockery, 12
Southaven, Mississippi

Marsden Hartley
Provincetown Abstraction

Frederic Remington
The Cowboy

Frederic Remington
Ridden Down

Two Votes Each
Alexander Calder
Studies for Amon Carter Museum Plaza

Alexander Stirling Calder
An American Stoic

Stuart Davis
Blips and Ifs

Stuart Davis
Chinatown

Charles Demuth
Chimney and Water Tower

Daniel Chester French
Benediction

Marsden Hartley
American Indian Symbols

David Johnson
Eagle Cliff, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire

Georgia O’Keeffe
Black Patio Door

Georgia O’Keeffe
Dark Mesa and Pink Sky

William T. Ranney
Marion Crossing the Pee Dee

Frederic Remington
The Old Stage Coach of the Plains

Frederic 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
I think that mountain views are the most spectacular images of nature.
Brian Anderson, 12
Bellflower, California

Frederic Edwin Church
New England Landscape

Arthur Dove
The Lobster

John Haberle
Can You Break a Five?
The painting is very realistic. So much so that you can almost expect to feel the actual items—if you were to touch them.
Amy, 38
Fort Worth, Texas

William M. Harnett
Attention Company

William M. Harnett
Ease

Martin Johnson Heade
Two Hummingbirds above a White Orchid

Winslow Homer
Crossing the Pasture

Louise Nevelson
Lunar Landscape Wall

Georgia O’Keeffe
Series I – No. 1

Julian Onderdonk
A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas

John Frederick Peto
A Closet Door

Frederic Remington
Coming Through the Rye

Frederic Remington
The Fall of the Cowboy

Frederic Remington
Through the Smoke Sprang the Daring Soldier

Frederic Remington
The Rattlesnake