Ruth Carter Stevenson

Ruth Carter Stevenson (October 19, 1923 – January 6, 2013) was an American art collector. She was the founder of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Biography Stevenson was born on October 19, 1923, in Fort Worth, Texas, to publisher Amon G. Carter and Nenetta Carter. She was the second daughter of Carter, the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and her brother was publisher Amon G. Carter Jr. She graduated from the Madeira School and then earned a chemistry degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York in 1945.

Her father specified in his will that a museum specializing in Western American art to be created after his death in 1955,

Stevenson was also the first woman to be appointed to the board of directors of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,

Ruth Carter Stevenson died at her home in Fort Worth, on January 6, 2013, aged 89.