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The works gathered for Suite 850 came from local museums and private collections. A photograph from 1963 featured in the current exhibit shows a bronze sculpture by Picasso titled "Angry Owl" being transported by one of the organizers, Ruth Carter Stevenson, from the home of a collector to the hotel suite. The sculpture is shown in the front seat of her car, fastened in with a seatbelt. Stevenson, who died earlier this year at the age of 89, was the daughter of legendary Texas newspaper publisher and philanthropist Amon G. Carter, whose will established the Amon Carter Museum. On the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, she's the one who got a call from the Kennedys telling her how much they'd enjoyed the art. The Kennedys had 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, where they arrived so late they didn't notice the significant artwork in their suite until the morning. Zajac's piece, "Small Bound Goat" from 1962, was displayed on a shelf near the Henry Moore sculpture "Three Points" in the suite. Zajac's piece, at the time part of Stevenson's private collection, is now in the Amon Carter Museum. Zajac, awarded the American Academy's prestigious Rome Prize fellowship in 1954, was living in Rome when Kennedy was assassinated and remembers the shock that spread through the city upon hearing the news. Zajac spent about 20 years living in Italy before returning to teach at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Now retired from teaching, he still lives and works in Santa Cruz. ___ Online: Dallas Museum of Art: http://www.dma.org/ Amon Carter Museum of American Art:
http://www.cartermuseum.org/
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