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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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

For the first time in our gallery, the Sid Richardson Museum has on display Western Scene by Charlie Russell, included in the current exhibition Western Treasures. Scholars consider this painting to be the artist’s first formal commission. Still in transition from cowboy to artist, Russell lacked the usual canvas and oils and instead opted for a pine board and house paints as his materials. Charles M. Russell, Western Scene (The Shelton Saloon Painting), c. 1885, Oil on wood panel, 17 1/2 inches x 69 inches Patroned by James R. Shelton, the proprietor of the Shelton Saloon, Western Scene [...]