Ruth carter stevenson biography of albert

Ruth Carter Stevenson, a Fort Worth patron of the arts and philanthropist, died on Sunday after a lengthy illness.

Mrs. Stevenson, 89, extended the legacy of her father, the late Amon G.

Carter, through her work at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Amon G. Carter Foundation.

She was born Oct. 19, 1923 in Fort Worth, the same year her father took over as publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, according to the Amon G.

Carter Foundation website. Mrs. Stevenson attended the Madeira School in McLean, Va., and Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y.

After graduation, she married J. Lee Johnson III of Fort Worth, although the marriage ended in divorce in 1980.

Her second husband, John Stevenson, died in 1997, according to the Amon G. Carter Foundation website.

Following her father’s wishes before his death in 1955, she organized a museum based on his collection of Western American Art, now the