American Photographs brings together more than 70 photographs that span the history of the medium and reflect the diversity of photographic practices during America’s industrial development, highlighting the central role of photography in the United States.

While he is internationally celebrated for his colorful renderings of the natural world, Eliot Porter’s Birds highlights Porter's equal, career-long focus on photographing birds through more than thirty photographs and archival objects with the artist’s extensive writings. 

This exhibition features works created during Wayne’s oversight of the influential Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Her commitment to reviving fine art lithography led to her creation of fascinating, multilayered prints that show the many possibilities the medium holds for engaging audiences.

From Standing Rock protests to the Arizona and Texas borderlands, Epstein travels the country capturing images where public and private rights are often in conflict. Politics and citizenship, or environmental degradation and land rights, Epstein focuses on tough topics, helping us see overlapping, and often competing, histories and perspectives.

Border Cantos, a multidimensional collaboration between heralded photographer Richard Misrach and innovative artist-musician Guillermo Galindo, uses photography, musical instruments, and video to examine the border between the United States and Mexico through a revelatory, humanistic lens.

In this exhibition, specially made for the Carter’s Atrium, Esther Pearl Watson explores her own personal identity through motifs and narratives that incorporate her childhood memories and Texas folklore into a deeply expressive canvas.

From luscious leafy tendrils to stark horizon lines, this exhibition of prints by Hedda Sterne drawn from the Carter’s collection celebrates the artist’s exquisite variety of formal interests.

With the Help of Friends celebrates 15 dynamic photographs ranging from the 1930s to the present day that were selected and purchased over the recent years by the Carter with the assistance of its photography collection supporters.

This exhibition features Bearden’s landmark series of collages and watercolors based on Homer’s classic work of Western literature, The Odyssey, recasting the heroes and villains as Black people and transforming the poem into a poignantly universal story through picture.

This intimate exhibition of Gego’s dramatic black-and-red prints celebrates the vibrant diversity of line, from zigzags and curves to diagonals and scribbles, and explores her interest in the intersection between line and space.

During the renovation, this exhibition features highlights from the permanent collection, including paintings, photographs, and sculptures, by some of America’s most renowned artists.

This exhibition showcases approximately 120 masterworks from tribes across the North American continent, providing rare access to one of the most comprehensive and diverse collections of American Indian art in private hands.

American Vanguards highlights the works and efforts of the charismatic John Graham and his circle of New York artists, who, along with forging their own identities in the art world, played a critical role in defining and shaping American modernism.

Navigating the West, a dynamic exhibition featuring iconic river paintings and drawings, reveals for the first time how George Caleb Bingham created his art and artistic persona at a time when American painting, like the country, was dramatically shifting.

This exhibition features the work of one of the nation’s acclaimed landscape photographers, offering visitors the opportunity to think about Fort Worth’s Trinity River through photographs that depict the river and its culture, including its channeling and visitors.