“Expanded Views” Rotating Installation
Expanded Views” are rotating installations, comprising either one or multiple contemporary works, that work to provide broader context for works in our permanent collection galleries.
These rotations are meant to imbue the reinstalled galleries with a sense of curatorial experimentation (at least when judged against the context of the Carter's own institutional history) and to create conversations across time and media.
Prosek's piece is part of an Expanded View in our nineteenth-century landscape gallery. This installation is intended to invite viewers to reflect on the landscape backdrops that often appear (or don’t appear) in artworks about nonhuman animals or in natural history illustrations. It’s a chance to ask viewers to think about how the conventions of landscape might operate in a different context than what we’re accustomed to look for.
Amon Carter Paper Forum Virtual Event: James Prosek in the Studio with Maggie Adler (February 3, 2021)
Carter Paper Forum members are invited to join us for a virtual studio visit with Connecticut-based artist, writer, and naturalist James Prosek. An acclaimed painter and author of 11 books, including Trout: An Illustrated History, Prosek creates works that explore themes of ecology and natural science, particularly the various ways that humans have sought to classify and categorize the natural world. Prosek will speak with curator Maggie Adler about their passion for the watercolors on view in Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, while sharing a glimpse into his own artistic process.
DECEMBER 2019 - DECEMBER 2020
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76107
