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==Culture==
==Culture==
Gospel singer [[Anna Carter Gordon Davis]], second wife of [[Governor]] [[Jimmie Davis]] of [[Louisiana]], died in Fort Worth in 2004 at the age of eighty-seven, where she had spent her last years. She was a long-term member of the Chuck Wagon Gang, founded in Lubbock, Texas, by her father, David Parker "Dad" Carter.
Gospel singer [[Anna Carter Gordon Davis]], second wife of [[Governor]] [[Jimmie Davis]] of [[Louisiana]], died in Fort Worth in 2004 at the age of eighty-seven, where she had spent her last years. She was a long-term member of the Chuck Wagon Gang, founded in Lubbock, Texas, by her father, David Parker "Dad" Carter.
[[Buck Taylor]], who played Newly O'Brien in [[CBS]]' ''Gunsmoke'' from 1967 until the series ended in 1975, has since 2003 been a rancher and artist in the Fort Worth area.
[[Buck Taylor]], who played Newly O'Brien in [[CBS]]' ''Gunsmoke'' from 1967 until the series ended in 1975, has since 2003 been a rancher and artist in the Fort Worth area.
===Art Museums===
Fort Worth is well-known for its cultural activities, mainly its three notable art museums.
The Kimbell Art Museum is the best known of the city's art museums (though its youngest, it opened in 1972), due to its small (only around 350 pieces) but high-quality collection (its centerpiece is '''The Torment of Saint Anthony''', attributed to [[Michelangelo]] at age 12) and its decision not to purchase pieces of either modern art or American art (leaving those to its neighbors, the Amon Carter and the Modern Art museums).
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art houses the nation's finest collection of paintings, sculpture, and photography of Western subjects. Based on the late Amon G. Carter's collection of original works by [[Charles M. Russell]] (1865-1926) and [[Frederic Remington]] (1861-1909). The museum also has a theater, bookstore, and research library that stress history as well as art.<ref>Patricia Junker et al., ''An American Collection: Works from the Amon Carter Museum'' (2001). 288 pp.</ref>
The least known of the three, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, is actually the city's oldest, dating back to 1892 but did not have a permanent facility until 2002. It features post World-War II art in the modern and contemporary styles.
==Sports==
==Sports==