Futurity_Preview_Nov.. - National Cutting Horse Association
Futurity_Preview_Nov.. - National Cutting Horse Association
Futurity_Preview_Nov.. - National Cutting Horse Association
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Western Bloodstock <strong>Horse</strong> Sales<br />
When it comes to buying and selling cutting horses, nothing<br />
compares to the sales conducted by Western Bloodstock Partners.<br />
During <strong>Futurity</strong> 50, you can experience six spectacular<br />
days of sales featuring cutting horses from the sport’s finest<br />
bloodlines. Millions of dollars will be exchanged among<br />
buyers and consignors from around the world.<br />
And everybody’s first stop on Super Stallion Saturday,<br />
December 10 will be the Watt Arena for the Breakfast of<br />
Champions and the 10th annual Parade of Champions, where<br />
you can take a close look at the sport’s greatest active sires.<br />
As part of the 50th <strong>Futurity</strong> celebrations, Western Bloodstock<br />
has invited all 20 living Open <strong>Futurity</strong> Champion horses<br />
to take part in the Super Stallion Saturday festivities.<br />
Daily sales will be held, Monday, December 5 through Saturday,<br />
December 10. Check westernbloodstock.com for the<br />
latest consignments and details.<br />
Get cultured in the cultural district<br />
Fort Worth’s cultural district is home to five major museums,<br />
all located blocks from the coliseum. Feed your artsy side by<br />
visiting any or all of these museums, and see what’s in store<br />
when you get there.<br />
Amon Carter Museum<br />
Will Barnet: Relationships, Intimate and Abstract, 1935-1965.<br />
An American pioneering printmaker, painter, and educator,<br />
Will Barnet is known for his works depicting humans and animals<br />
in casual life as well as fantasy worlds. This year would<br />
have marked Barnet’s 100th birthday, and this exhibit features<br />
nearly 50 of his works that show the evolution of his art<br />
from realism to abstraction.<br />
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Masterworks of American Photography: Landscape<br />
This exhibit brings together an assortment of the Amon<br />
Carter Museum’s magnificent landscape photographs, from<br />
daguerreotypes to ink-jet prints. Landscape photography has<br />
long been a focal point of American art and of the Amon<br />
Carter Museum.<br />
Feature Photography Exhibition: Work<br />
Photographers throughout history have captured people in<br />
their essence doing their jobs. This modest survey exhibition,<br />
drawn from the museum’s extensive collection, showcases<br />
photographers’ recognition of work from how people are<br />
often defined by their jobs to their documentation of labor’s<br />
troubles and successes.<br />
John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury<br />
John Marin is one of America’s foremost modernists, and he<br />
was one of the first American artists to make abstract paintings.<br />
This special exhibition of more than 50 oil and watercolor<br />
paintings from his 20-year career, from 1933 to 1953,<br />
will be on view at the Amon Carter.<br />
Modern Art Museum<br />
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series<br />
Based on the aerial landscape, the large-scale abstract compositions<br />
of Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park series are the<br />
artist’s most famous work. The Modern Art Museum of Fort<br />
Worth is featuring more than 75 paintings, prints and drawings<br />
spanning two decades.<br />
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History<br />
Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary, Paintings and Works on Paper<br />
This retrospective display represents a vital link in Texas history,<br />
as Hogue remains the preeminent figure from the 1930s<br />
and 1940s to consistently capture the look, feel, and psychological<br />
character of the Southwest landscape. Fort Worth is<br />
the third and final stop on the exhibition’s limited-engagement<br />
tour.<br />
<strong>National</strong> Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame<br />
The Cowgirl Who Became a Justice - Sandra Day O’Connor:<br />
A 30th Anniversary Celebration<br />
Prior to Sandra Day O’Connor, no other female in the United<br />
States had been given as heavy and as public a yoke to carry<br />
in representing women, the West and, in turn, the best interests<br />
of the nation. The <strong>National</strong> Cowgirl Museum and Hall of<br />
Fame proudly celebrates 2002 Hall of Fame Honoree Sandra<br />
Day O’Connor on the 30th anniversary of her appointment to<br />
the United States Supreme Court.