Fort Worth artists Scott and Stuart Gentling had artistic interests that spanned centuries and continents. In the first-ever comprehensive retrospective of the brothers’ work, Imagined Realism features more than 150 works and archival objects that showcase their visionary artistic careers.

Fort Worth artists Scott and Stuart Gentling paid tribute to their artistic predecessors in their watercolors, carefully reinventing historical poses and compositions of birds before inserting them in backdrops of unique Texas landscapes.

This exhibition of Richard Avedon’s evocative portraits of the people of the American West, commissioned by the Carter, uses the subjects’ faces, clothes, and postures to convey not only their hard living but the full embrace of human existence.

In Her Image traces the development of female identity through portraiture, from young girlhood to middle age. Matar uses her photographs to show how the forces that shape female identity transcend cultural and geographic boundaries.

Wild Spaces, Open Seasons brings together iconic works that explore outdoor subjects from the early 19th century to World War II, exploring American artists’ fascination with depicting a communion with nature that was receding in the face of industrialization.

Nature/Culture explores different facets of the dichotomy between nature and culture through photographs, reflecting on how nature counterpoints and enlivens our built environment and on what qualifies as “natural.”

This exhibition explores how the genre of western entertainments impacted American visual culture, from popular posters and calendars to fine art drawings, paintings, and sculpture.

This exhibition provides a groundbreaking new look at the varied directions pursued by modern artists through the majority of the 20th century, capturing the restless, spontaneous, and confident American spirit through a variety of progressive artistic styles.

Immerse yourself in a colorful botanical world full of giant insects, flowers, and plants created by Houston–based artist and Rice University professor Natasha Bowdoin. Inspired by the Carter’s collection and the artist’s abounding interest in literature, In the Night Garden asks us to pause and reimagine our relationship with the natural world.

Identity explores community, celebrity, and individual representation through portraiture, delving into the idea that identity in American culture is as much influenced by individual presentation as factors that are externally determined.