If art lovers downtown this weekend for the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival and Fort Worth Art Fair need a respite (and air conditioning), mosey over to the Sid Richardson Museum, where the rare combination of a fun and intellectual exhibit Remington and Russell in Black and White is on display until April 21.
Scott Winterrowd, the Sid Richardson Museum’s director, has to work within the confines of the museum’s mission of displaying Western art, primarily by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, collected by the museum’s namesake, the late Sid Richardson.
Unlike the Amon Carter of Museum of American Art, which has transformed itself from a similar collection of Remingtons and Russells collected by its namesake and former Star-Telegram publisher into a museum telling the ongoing history of American art, the Richardson has stuck to its mission…