Museum to show landscapes

The Amon Carter Museum will host an exhibit by 19th century American landscape painter Sanford Robinson Gifford March 6 through May 16.
The exhibition, Hudson River School Visions, will feature 70 paintings that Gifford sketched during his treks to America, Europe and the Middle East.
According to the museum, the public has never seen many of these works, and the Amon Carter Museum will be the only venue beyond the East Coast where these paintings can be viewed.
While Gifford’s rivals competed for publicity with monumental exhibition paintings, he attracted the attention of fellow painters and devoted patrons creating colorful landscapes on a small scale.
Gifford was one of 50 prominent New York artists, literati and businessmen who in 1869 drafted the original resolution for a municipal art institution, which would later become the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Admission for the exhibit is $4 for college students (I.D. required) as well as adults over 62.
Museum members and children under 18 will be admitted free while admission for adults 19-61 will be $6.
Free admission is offered on Thursdays from 5 to 8 p.m.
The museum is closed Mondays and major holidays and open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
A fully illustrated catalogue published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press accompanies the exhibition.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and the Na-tional Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., organized the exhibit.