Happy Holidays
Seasons Greetings from the Sid Richardson Museum. May your holidays be merry and bright! Charles M. Russell, When White Men Turn Red, c. 1922, Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 1/4 inches
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The Gift of Giving
In keeping with Sid W. Richardson’s vision of helping the people of his native state, the Sid Richardson Museum and Foundation embarked on a project for 2013 in which we donated over 3,000 books to 479 libraries in Texas. We’ve enjoyed reading the flood of thank you letters in return. The institutions selected service populations of 50,000 or less. Many of these libraries are very small and often have only one staff member. For some, this was the first they had heard of the Sid Richardson Museum, so we are happy to be able to share our collection and resources [...]
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Preserving Spirits of the Past
While he is better known as a painter, Charles M. Russell was as skillful with clay as he was with paint. As a young boy, he showed natural talent for modeling the heroes and animals of his dreams. Family lore has it that his first clay sculpture was a bear, modeled from clay the four-year-old scraped from his shoes. Critics praised the accuracy of Russell’s observation and animated naturalism of his subjects in both paint and bronze, but many contemporaries considered him more gifted as a sculptor. While Russell’s bronzes lack the refined unity seen in works by his academically [...]
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Imagination Celebration
Every year, thousands of young students visit the Sid Richardson Museum to tour our collection and experience hands-on learning activities in our studio. Many of our school group field trips are made possible through Imagination Celebration Fort Worth. To learn more about this organization, we talked with Executive Director Lauri Bevan. What is Imagination Celebration Fort Worth? LB: Imagination Celebration of Fort Worth (ICFW) started as part of an initiative by the Kennedy Center to celebrate the arts in communities in a festival format. We incorporated in 1989 to provide arts and cultural programming for K-12 students in Fort Worth. [...]
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The Power of Field Trips
Field trips are a great way to enrich a child’s education outside the classroom. Recently, a group of education researchers conducted the first large-scale randomized-control study designed to measure what students learn from school tours of an art museum. They discovered that students who visit art museums possess more knowledge about art, have stronger critical-thinking skills, exhibit increased historical empathy, display higher levels of tolerance, and have a greater taste for art and culture. The benefits are quite notable! Every week, the Sid Richardson Museum hosts hundreds of students from FWISD and outlying school districts. Docents guide the children through the [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving
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
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Western Treasures Revealed
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 [...]
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Education Intern
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 [...]
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Learning Through Story
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 [...]
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Cowboy Squared
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.