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Sid Richardson Museum – Fort Worth, Texas

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What happens when the heroes and villains of Western film trade places — when the Comanche become the storytellers, not the stereotypes?

The Sid Richardson Museum’s exhibition The Cinematic West: The Art That Made the Movies explores how artis...

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What happens when a painting leaps from the canvas onto the silver screen? That is the story at the heart of a recent lecture at the lecture Sid Richardson Museum, in which our director, Scott Winterrowd, traced the fascinating journey of Remington’s 1897 painting

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Long before the silver screen mythologized the American West, Charles M. Russell had already etched it into bronze and canvas. But in the twilight of his life, Russell wasn’t just painting cowboys. He was rubbing elbows with movie stars.

When Charlie and Nancy Russell began wintering in Southern California in 1920, they weren’t merely escaping the Montana cold. They we...

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From Cowboy to Costume Designer: Joe De Yong and the Art Behind Hollywood’s Westerns

Before Clint Eastwood donned his poncho or John Wayne rode into the sunset, there was a young cowboy from Oklahoma with a sketchpad and a dream.

Joe De Yong’s life reads like a Hollywood script: cowboy, artist, silent film actor, survivor, and ultimately the bridge between Western art ...

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