Artspace critic Dave Hickey once identified the Fort Worth Circle 
as "Texas' first indigenous group of consciously cosmopolitan and 
irrefutably modern artists." Their work, he wrote, "represents the 
fruit of a special time in the culture of the western United States."

    This book chronicles the Circle's distinctive output during the 
1940s, the decade of their genesis and greatest innovation. These 
"genuine citizens of the world," as Hickey called them, possessed 
an unconventional vision that radically sidestepped the traditional 
art of post-Depression Texas. Drawing from their own fertile 
imaginations, the members of the Circle responded to modern art 
by creating a unique aesthetic based on contemporary surrealism 
and abstraction.
 
    Published by the Amon Carter Museum to coincide with an 
exhibition by the same title, Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth 
Circle Artists in the 1940s is a "must have" for any library of 
American modernism and the art of Texas.

    The catalogue also includes succinct biographies, accompanied 
by photographs, of each of the eleven artists of the Fort Worth Circle; 
a bibliography; exhibition checklist; and brief foreword.

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JANE MYERS is Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the 
Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. She is the author and 
coauthor of several publications, including An American Collection: 
Works from the Amon Carter Museum. SCOTT GRANT BARKER, 
a longtime resident of Fort Worth, is a cultural historian who has 
made the Fort Worth Circle the focus of his research for years. His 
knowledge of the Circle's work and their place in the art history of 
Texas is unparalleled.


Distributed for the Amon Carter Museum