Futurity_Preview_Nov.. - National Cutting Horse Association

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