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A group of prominent citizens turned to museums and private collections to assemble 12 paintings and four sculptures, including Thomas Eakins' oil painting "Swimming," Pablo Picasso's bronze "Angry Owl" and Vincent van Gogh's oil painting "Road with Peasant Shouldering a Spade." "What they did was really amazing. They put together really a series of masterpieces," Meslay said.
The Kennedys left Washington on Nov. 21 for a two-day, five-city tour of Texas. They went to San Antonio and Houston before ending the day in Fort Worth. Barker said the Kennedys arrived so late that they didn't notice the significant artwork until the morning.
Meslay said the works are not only a snapshot of art tastes in 1963, but also a display of the cultural riches that were in Fort Worth at the time. For instance, he said, Eakins' "Swimmers" from 1885, held currently by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, is "one of the most important American paintings of the 19th century."
The exhibit, "Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy" will open at the Dallas Museum of Art on May 26, 2013 and run through Sept. 15, 2013. The exhibit then will move to the Amon Carter from Oct. 12, 2013 through Jan. 12, 2014.
At least 14 of the 16 works will be on display, as well as photographs, videos and archival materials including images of the suite before the couple's arrival. Andrew Walker, director of the Amon Carter, said the exhibit will be an opportunity to recover an extraordinary moment that was overshadowed by the assassination. He said with so much of the anniversary's focus on the president's death, this exhibit will offer a "kind of respite moment."
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