From all of us at the Sid Richardson Museum, we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! May your bounty be plenty...for any unexpected guests. Charles Russell, Man's Weapons Are Useless When Nature Goes Armed, 1916, Oil on canvas, 30 x 48 1/8 inches
In celebration of our exhibition Western Treasures and the opening of the new Sundance Square Plaza, the Sid Richardson Museum held a reception for our downtown neighbors. The evening was filled with live music, friendly conversation, and remarkable works of art. Tom Price, Mayor Betsy Price, and Ed Bass Terrell Lamb, Dee Steer, Pete Geren, and Vickie Dickerson David Shwarz and Walter Burr Andrew Walker, Charlotte Robinson, and John Robinson During the event, our guests received behind-the-scenes insight as Mr. Bass expounded on the design for the exhibition. In addition to the [...]
Rachel Moss is an education major at TCU in her senior year. This fall, Rachel volunteered as an intern at the Sid Richardson Museum in the education department under the supervision of Kat Yount, Director of School and Family Programs. We sat down with Rachel to hear about her internship experience at SRM. Describe your internship project. RM: During the past two months, I have been working on two different projects. The first is a storytelling binder for the museum docents. I collected stories from the museum's library, TCU's library, books of Native American legends, and online sources and compiled [...]
Who doesn’t enjoy a good story? Stories have power; they delight, enchant, touch, teach, recall, inspire, motivate, and challenge. Stories give life to past experience and help us understand a time now gone. It is through stories that we can help visitors relate to the works of Remington and Russell and the art of the American West. Our docents are natural storytellers. To help nurture that skill, we brought in professional storyteller Ann Marie Newman. Ann Marie has performed and taught at several storytelling festivals and workshops in the DFW area. Since 2006, she has been the Dallas Museum of [...]
To celebrate the spirit of the American West and the new Sundance Square Plaza, last weekend the Sid Richardson Museum hosted Cowboy Squared, a free family event. Children of all ages stopped by the museum’s studio to design their very own cowboy bandana. To personalize the bandana, the kids learned how to make their own brand, from the Rocking R to the Lazy M. And of course a cowboy would not be complete without his or her very own cowboy hat! Afterwards, families corralled into the galleries to enjoy a scavenger hunt through the new exhibit, Western Treasures.
Western Treasures reunites significant paintings by Charles M. Russell, Frederic Remington, and their contemporaries with rarely seen paintings from the Museum’s permanent collection, combined with six bronze sculptures by Remington and Russell on loan from private collectors. The exhibition provides an opportunity to celebrate the strength of the collection and gain an appreciation of the early work of Russell, with emphasis on his affinity with the American Indian. Charles Russell, Seeking New Hunting Grounds (Breaking Camp; Indian Women and Children On The Trail), ca. 1891, Oil on canvas, 23 3/4 inches x 35 7/8 inches Seeking New Hunting [...]
Working at a museum located in historic Sundance Square, it is important for our docents to have a better understanding of Fort Worth history when relating to our visitors. Earlier this week, we took our docents on a visit to Fort Worth’s Oakwood Cemetery located on the Northside. Because the old city cemetery was full, in 1879 John Peter Smith gave 20 acres to Fort Worth to create this cemetery in which to bury his recently deceased step son. The space was later enlarged to 100 acres, which actually encompasses 3 cemeteries: Oakwood, Calvary, and Trinity. Oakwood Cemetery is the resting [...]
Earlier this month, the museum hosted its first Tea & Talk. Did you know that the average museum visitor spends 12-15 seconds per painting? And that's being generous. Rather than get caught up in the museum shuffle, Tea and Talk allows visitors the opportunity to slow down and take time to really see the art. Together we take an in-depth look at a selection of works and engage in conversation about our observations. The experience can be eye-opening, as each perspective shines light on new details and ideas. The more one looks at a painting, the more one will find. [...]
In partnership with Fort Worth Public Library’s Worth Reading Program, we hosted Storytelling at the Sid Richardson Museum. During this family fun event, participants enjoyed hearing stories related to paintings in the collection as told by our docents. In the process, the children learned how paintings like Remington and Russell’s inspire other art forms like writing, drawing, and storytelling. With their very own storytelling kit, each participant had the opportunity to continue the tradition and create their own stories based on works from the museum’s collection. Every painting is worth a thousand words! To learn more about the Fort Worth [...]
As part of the new exhibition, Western Treasures, the Sid Richardson Museum presents some paintings that have been hiding in the vault for a while, including one work that has never been on public display in our museum. To get these works exhibition-ready, we requested the assistance of Lowy Frame and Restoration Co. in New York. The museum worked with Lowy’s Wayne Reynolds, Master Gilder and Frame Conservator, to hand-select the frame design for each painting. Ornate French frame During the period when Sid Richardson began collecting the works of Remington and Russell, Western art collectors preferred ornate, [...]
