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A Tight Fix—Bear Hunting, Early Winter [The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix] by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, 1856. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; photograh courtesy of Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Indeed, many of the works on display possess such narrative potency that they offer unexpected insight into American lives of the past, from the dramatic suspense of Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait’s A Tight Fix—Bear Hunting, Early Winter to such intriguing slice-of-life scenes as William Sidney Mount’s Eel Spearing at Setauket. But don’t assume that Wild Spaces, Open Seasons is limited to nineteenth-century genre paintings. The Amon Carter also promises modernist works by such artists as George Bellows, Stuart Davis, and Marsden Hartley.
Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art • Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas • October 7 to January 7, 2018 • cartermuseum.org