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(01/10/08 5:00am)
The test of a really good film should include its ability to handle a variety of moods and genres. "Juno," which seamlessly moves between serious and hilarious, drama and comedy, through witty dialogue and a sophisticated vocabulary, does just that. \nIt's hard not to like Juno MacGuff (played with gusto by Ellen Page). At only 16, she's a clever, opinionated, music-savvy, cute girl who is more certain of herself than she lets on -- probably because of the self-doubt that develops when she is unexpectedly knocked up by her friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). \nPregnant Juno is forced to grow up fast, but luckily her sarcastic father Mac (J.K. Simmons) and stepmother Bren (Allison Janney) support Juno when she decides to go through with the pregnancy and find adoptive parents for her unborn child. Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner round out the brilliant cast as Mark and Vanessa Loring, a couple interested in adopting Juno's offspring. Even Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight Schrute on the TV show "The Office," makes an eccentric but effective cameo. \nIn his film, director Jason Reitman allows his actors freedom to express their characters' emotions and spotlights the development of the relationships between the protagonist and supporting cast members. Juno is ambivalent toward Bleeker, has a mature relationship with her parents and forges a questionable bond with Mark over shared musical interests, guitar playing and horror flicks. Ultimately, it is the knowledge of her own limitations and her empathy for Vanessa that guide her resolve. \nThe film's music is one of its many strong suits. A huge fan of '70s punk rock, Juno not only listens to good tunes but plays in a band with Bleeker, who at one point utters the classic line, "When this pregnancy thing is over, we should get the band back together." The two sing an excellent duet toward the end of the film. \n"Juno" manages to avoid preaching and platitudes and offers no message or slant concerning teen pregnancy, which lends the film credibility. It chronicles a poised young girl's skirmish with adulthood and the realization of her individuality. Page, who has already garnered a Golden Globe nomination, is worth the admission alone.
(03/19/07 4:00am)
FORT WORTH, Texas – From a sculpture of a pigtailed girl with four eyes to a photograph of a self-conscious teenager on the beach, works in the “Pretty Baby” art exhibit demonstrate that childhood can be anything but simple.\nThe exhibit features the creations of more than a dozen artists from five countries – paintings, photographs and sculptures, and even 1970s home movies and a Claymation video. It runs through June 24 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, its only appearance.\nMuseum curator Andrea Karnes said she created the show after studying how artists’ images of children changed through the centuries. Since the Renaissance, youngsters had been portrayed as pure and idealized, but in the mid-20th century they began showing up in art in more realistic and sometimes controversial ways.\n“It’s not a show to represent sweet, innocent images of children; the pieces show the complexity of childhood,” Karnes said. “There are works that are tender, painful. Rarely do any artists represent innocence without irony.”\nThe title is from the 1978 film about child prostitution starring Brooke Shields, but only a few pieces in the exhibit are edgy, Karnes said. It features works from 1992 to 2007.\nRineke Dijkstra’s compilation, “Bathers,” photographs of an American teenager wearing a pink ruffled bikini and a Belgium girl in a more modest, one-piece bathing suit on different beaches, show that despite their cultural differences, the girls seem to share teen angst, Karnes said.\n“To me, Dijkstra has this uncanny way of using straightforward photography but revealing the exact moment almost between adolescence and adulthood,” Karnes said. “And even though they’re these sort of frontal classical poses, they reveal this mix of pride and vulnerability and a lot of the things we feel at this age.”\nPopular and influential Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara created an acrylic on canvas piece, “Thinker,” just for this show. Several more of Nara’s paintings of children, with enormous eyes and straight mouths similar to anime characters, also are featured.\nAnother room showcases Nara’s fiberglass sculptures of puppies on stilts – which is 5 feet high, 4 feet wide and 3 feet deep – and a food bowl on the floor below. Karnes said the artist, who as a child may have witnessed his puppy’s death, is trying to show that when the dogs are tall enough for drivers to see them, they will probably starve.\n“Like so many Japanese artists, he uses cute to an extreme ... and pushes it so that we actually see the flip side, the dark side,” Karnes said. “There’s always this irony within the language of cute in Japanese art.”
(03/31/05 4:13am)
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A former high-ranking Boy Scouts of America official who ran a task force that worked to protect children from sexual abuse pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal child pornography charge.\nDouglas Sovereign Smith Jr., 61, was accused of receiving images over the Internet of children engaging in sex acts. He pleaded guilty to a charge of possession and distribution of child pornography.\nSmith entered his plea without making a deal with prosecutors. "He's willing to accept responsibility. ... Obviously, he wanted to get this behind him," Assistant U.S. Attorney Bret Helmer said.\nSmith's only comments in court were one-word answers to the judge's questions.\n"He is contrite," said Jack Strickland, Smith's attorney. "He has accepted responsibility."\nSmith, who lives in Colleyville, near Fort Worth, faces five to 20 years in prison without parole and up to a $250,000 fine. He remains free until sentencing July 12.\nSmith, who worked for the Boy Scouts 39 years, was a national program director and led the Youth Protection Task Force that worked to shield youth from sexual abuse. But he did not work directly with children, Boy Scouts officials said.\nHe was put on leave last month, immediately after the organization learned of the allegations, and then chose to retire.\nGregg Shields, national spokesman for the Boy Scouts, based in the Dallas suburb of Irving, said Tuesday that the organization was "shocked and dismayed."\n"This is the action of one individual. It certainly doesn't represent our values or mission," Shields said.\nLaw enforcement officials indicated that the pictures did not show boys who were with the Boy Scouts organization, Shields said.\nAuthorities found 520 images of child pornography, including video clips, on Smith's home computer but none on his work computer, Helmer said. There was no evidence Smith had inappropriate contact with children, he said.\nHe received pictures and sent them to other people but did not sell them, Helmer said. Officials don't believe he sent the images to other Boy Scout officials.\nShields said Smith took over the task force two years ago. The task force had been launched in the mid-1980s and soon became widely admired as a model program that provided a Web site, videos, literature and other resources to adults and boys in the scouts, churches and schools.\nThe Boy Scouts have had other problems with their personnel, including volunteers. A California court case in the early 1990s revealed about 2,000 cases of sexual abuse of scouts and other boys that Boy Scouts officials in Irving had documented privately for two decades without telling law enforcement officials.\nSmith's indictment was a result of an investigation launched last year by Operation Kinderschutz, a joint program started in 1997 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and German authorities that investigates child pornography distributed over the Internet.\nAuthorities said they found e-mails containing child porn from Smith on the computer of a German man.
(01/15/04 5:25am)
FORT WORTH, Texas - He drew with expression and detail, using soft red chalk to portray a nude woman reclining and pen and ink to bring to life religious and mythological scenes.\nFrancois Boucher, the 18th-century draftsman who became the premiere painter for France's King Louis XV, drew some 10,000 pictures during his career. Many were sketched for his students in preparation for a painting or to refine his work.\nFort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum showcases 80 of his drawings in "Genius of the French Rococo: The Drawings of Francois Boucher (1703-1770)." The exhibit, which includes many pieces never seen in the United States, opens Sunday and runs through April 18.\nCelebrating the 300th anniversary of Boucher's birth, it is the first major exhibit of his graphic work on loan from major museums and private collections in this country and Europe.\nBecause the Kimbell owns four Boucher paintings, museum curators decided to hold a simultaneous exhibit, "Boucher's Mythological Paintings: The Last Great Series Reunited." It includes two paintings on loan from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.\nBoucher painted those six works -- most of them measuring about 9 feet-by-6 1/2 feet -- for the Hotel Bergeret de Frouville in Paris about a year before he died on May 30, 1770. The paintings have not been together for decades and have never been displayed with his drawings.\n"He really epitomized the French Rococo in all of its grand, spectacular beauty and refinement," said Timothy Potts, director for the Kimbell. "In its day, it was the most refined, intelligent and sophisticated art in Europe."\nBoucher was born in Paris and learned from painters there, then studied in Rome in the late 1720s. He later returned to France, where he drew designs for engravers, tapestries, the theater and book illustrations.\nHe taught at a drawing academy, and being considered the best artist of his time, became the painter for King Louis XV, in 1765. In that period, drawings were not widely considered art. But that changed as Boucher's reputation grew, and people began collecting his work.\n"There were probably people in the studio salivating to get another Boucher," said Nancy Edwards, the Kimbell's curator of European art.\nSome of his celebrated drawings of nudes include "Study of the Figure of Apollo," "Recumbent Female Nude" and "Study of a Young Nude Woman Reclining, With Both Arms Out to the Right." All were done in chalk, capturing the contours of the human form.\nOther notable works drawn with chalk include "Sketch of Two Cupids in the Air," "Study of a Despondent Woman in Drapery" and "Head of a River God in Profile."\n"His drawings have maintained their status and symbol throughout the changes in the 20th century," Potts said. "The drawings have that immediacy. They do look like they were made yesterday."\nBoucher also drew pastoral images -- young barefoot women lounging in the grass, or dancing, scenes of people fishing -- and expressive landscapes. His "Landscape With a Mill-Pond" was done with black and white chalks with pastels over graphite on blue paper.\nHe also met the demand of the day by drawing complex scenes requiring compositional designs. Stunning pen-and-ink pieces in this category include "Allegory of the Education of Louis XV" and "A Lady Being Dressed by Her Maid."\n"The composition shows his range in terms of subject matter," Edwards said. "We think of mythological figures and half-clothed women, but he did other subjects."\nThe Kimbell is the second and final venue for the exhibit of Boucher's drawings, first showcased at the Frick Collection in New York.\nBecause the work cannot be exposed to too much light, it remains in storage much of the time.\n"Even if you went to museums in Europe, you wouldn't get to see all of these drawings," Potts said.
(08/28/03 6:19am)
WACO, Texas -- Former Baylor basketball player Carlton Dotson was indicted Wednesday on a charge of murdering his former teammate and roommate Patrick Dennehy, and prosecutors began the process of extraditing him to Texas.\nThe grand jury heard evidence for about 90 minutes before handing up an indictment against Dotson, who has been jailed in his home state of Maryland since his July 21 arrest.\nThe indictment, which contained a single murder count, alleges Dotson shot Dennehy on or about June 12. Dennehy's body was found in a field southeast of town July 25.\nHe had been shot twice in the head, according to an autopsy report.\nDistrict Attorney John Segrest and other law enforcement officials have refused to discuss motive, which is not mentioned in the one-page indictment. The maximum penalty for the murder count is life in prison.\nSegrest's office on Wednesday began the paperwork to formalize a request to Gov. Rick Perry's office to seek Dotson's extradition. If Dotson continues to contest extradition, a judge in Maryland will schedule a hearing.\n"How long it will take to secure his presence here is anybody's guess," Segrest said.\nThe grand jury met twice, Segrest said. Dotson's estranged wife Melissa Kethley testified Aug. 13, and McLennan County sheriff's investigator Clay Perry and Waco police detective Bob Fuller testified Wednesday.\nKethley's mother, Pam Bayuk, said the family had been expecting the indictment.\n"We just didn't know why it took so long," Bayuk said Wednesday.\nKethley has said she last saw her husband when he drove Dennehy's vehicle to visit her in Sulphur Springs the night of June 12 -- the same day Dennehy was last seen on campus.\nThe couple ate dinner and Dotson said he wanted to reconcile, Bayuk said. He then became paranoid and told Kethley not to use her cell phone or tell anyone he was there, Bayuk said.\nEarly that evening, friends reported seeing Dennehy and Dotson at a fast-food restaurant in Waco, about 140 miles from Sulphur Springs. One of his friends has said he talked to Dennehy on the phone June 14, but investigators believe he has the wrong date.\nDennehy's disappearance and the naming of Dotson as a "person of interest" in the case rocked Baylor and prompted intense scrutiny of its basketball program.\nBasketball coach Dave Bliss and athletic director Tom Stanton resigned Aug. 8. School investigators said they discovered that two players were receiving improper financial aid and staff members did not properly report failed drug tests.\nIn late July and early August, Bliss told players to lie to investigators and imply that Dennehy was dealing drugs, according to conversations secretly recorded by an assistant coach. After the tapes were made public Aug. 15, Bliss said he had heard stories about Dennehy but was wrong in trying to falsely portray him as a drug dealer.\nA campus memorial service was planned for Dennehy on Thursday night.
(07/31/03 2:23am)
WACO, Texas -- Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy died of gunshot wounds to the head and was killed in the field where his body was found, according to a preliminary autopsy report released Wednesday.\nDennehy's official cause of death is homicide, the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas said in its report.\nThe report does not specify how many times Dennehy was shot, whether he suffered any other wounds or when he died. The complete autopsy is expected to take several more weeks.\nThe one-page preliminary report was released Wednesday to Belinda Summers, a justice of the peace in McLennan County, where the remains of the 21-year-old athlete were found Friday in a grassy field about four miles from campus. Dennehy had been missing about six weeks.\nInvestigators had searched earlier in the week at nearby gravel pits, a site police say was provided to them by Carlton Dotson, Dennehy's roommate and former teammate, who is charged with murder.\nDotson was arrested July 21 after telling FBI agents he shot Dennehy when Dennehy tried to shoot him, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.\nAfter his arrest, Dotson told The Associated Press that he "didn't confess to anything." Dotson, 21, remains jailed without bail in his home state of Maryland pending extradition to Texas.\nDotson's attorney, Grady Irvin, did not immediately return a call seeking comment Wednesday.\nDennehy was last seen on campus June 12; his family reported him missing June 19. The next week, his vehicle was found abandoned in Virginia Beach, Va.\nA funeral service tentatively is scheduled for mid-August in San Jose, Calif., near where he grew up. The service had been expected next week, but Pastor Dick Bernal of the Jubilee Christian Center said he had been told that forensic work would continue through Thursday or Friday.\nA campus memorial service is planned for September at Baylor University, a Baptist school with 14,000 students.\nDotson transferred to Baylor last year from Paris Junior College in east Texas. Dennehy, because of NCAA eligibility rules, had to sit out a year after transferring from New Mexico, where he was kicked off the team for losing his temper.\nA committee of three Baylor Law School professors will investigate allegations an assistant coach told Dennehy his education and living expenses would be paid if he gave up his scholarship for a year. Baylor tuition and fees cost more than $17,000 a year.\nThe committee also will examine whether Dennehy received $1,200 to $1,800 from an assistant coach toward a loan for his Chevrolet Tahoe.\nBaylor athletics department spokesman Heath Nielsen said Tuesday that the university stands by basketball coach Dave Bliss' statements denying any knowledge of NCAA violations.\nDennehy's roommate, Chris Turk, who does not attend Baylor, said Dennehy "hinted" that one or more coaches helped him buy his vehicle. Turk said Dennehy told him that a coach paid for his vehicle repairs.
(07/28/03 1:45am)
WACO, Texas - Investigators collected evidence Sunday in a field where they found a decomposed body, not far from where they were searching for missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy.\nThere was still no identification of the remains found Friday, and officials said the process could take several days.\nThe body was found north of an area of gravel pits where authorities searched last week after the arrest of Carlton Dotson, Dennehy's former teammate and roommate.\nDotson was charged with Dennehy's murder last week. He is jailed without bail in Maryland, awaiting extradition to Texas.\nOn Sunday, an investigator moved around the site placing small yellow flags at the spots of possible pieces of evidence. Baylor police were also at the scene.\nDennehy's family reported him missing June 19, about a week after he was last seen on the Baylor campus in Waco. His vehicle was found abandoned in Virginia Beach, Va., on June 25.\nMcLennan County Sheriff Larry Lynch said the body was taken to a forensic lab for an autopsy and positive identification. Authorities said the body was too decomposed to immediately determine if it was Dennehy.\nDennehy's family decided not to return to Waco from Carson City, Nev., if the body is determined to be Dennehy's, said Jessica De La Rosa, Dennehy's girlfriend.\n"If that body is his, which we understand it probably is, it's not his anymore," De La Rosa said Sunday. "Technically, there's nothing we can do out there."\nDotson was arrested Monday after he called 911, saying he needed help because he was hearing voices, Maryland police said. Waco police said Dotson told FBI agents in Maryland that he shot Dennehy after the player tried to shoot him. But after his arrest, Dotson told The Associated Press that he "didn't confess to anything"
(07/24/03 1:58am)
WACO, Texas -- Despite a day of fruitless searching for missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, police expect to find his body based on information from his former teammate, who is charged with his murder.\nInvestigators, some on horseback, searched river banks and a gravel pit Tuesday for Dennehy's body. Police Sgt. Ryan Holt said authorities would keep searching, but wouldn't say where.\n"There is always the hope, very sincere hope, that we find Mr. Dennehy, mostly for his family and then for the criminal case," Holt said.\nRain delayed a resumption of the search Wednesday, police Sgt. Ryan Holt said. He said he did not know if the search would resume later in the day, and he did not give any possible locations.\nDennehy's stepfather, Brian Brabazon, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that police have said Dotson gave investigators three locations to search for the body.\nFormer roommate Carlton Dotson, 21, was charged Monday night with murder after he confessed to FBI agents that he shot Dennehy in the head "because Patrick had tried to shoot him," according to an arrest warrant released Tuesday.\n"Mr. Dotson provided specific information about the murder of Mr. Dennehy that would lead us to believe he committed the murder," Holt said, declining to release more details.\nAs he left the Kent County courthouse Monday, Dotson told a reporter: "I didn't confess to anything."\nDennehy, 21, was last seen on campus June 12; his family reported him missing June 19. The next day, Waco police said Delaware police told them an informant said Dotson told someone he shot Dennehy in the head after the two argued.\nDotson was ordered held without bail Tuesday, and his attorneys signaled they would fight extradition to Texas.\nDotson was seen "during the late evening" June 12 in Sulphur Springs, the hometown of his estranged wife, driving Dennehy's Chevrolet Tahoe, and told someone he planned to go to Maryland, the warrant said.\nDennehy's Tahoe was found abandoned, without license plates, in a Virginia Beach, Va., mall parking lot June 25.\nOn Sunday, Dotson contacted authorities near his hometown in Maryland, said he was hearing voices and later, after being taken to a hospital, asked to speak with FBI agents about Dennehy's disappearance, authorities said.\nDotson attorney Grady Irvin said Tuesday afternoon that he hadn't spoken to his client since his arrest.\n"I don't think he's in a mental state right now to be speaking to anyone in any lucid fashion," Irvin said.\n"A guy goes in for a psychological evaluation and it turns into a police interrogation," he said. "How that happens, I don't know."\nIrvin said he would examine the arrest warrant and see if any comments that Dotson made in recent weeks were included.\n"If it is, there is a significant likelihood that his competency to make those statements are in question," he said.\nDotson was ordered held without bond Tuesday in Maryland. An extradition hearing for Dotson was scheduled for Aug. 19 in Chestertown, Md., said Teresa Shelton, a law clerk in Kent County District Court.\nDotson and Dennehy were on the basketball team at the Baptist university last season. Dotson recently lost his scholarship and was not planning to return to Baylor in the fall.\nDotson's estranged wife, Melissa Kethley, said she's known that Dotson needed psychological help for a long time.\n"He needs help, the boy needs help," a tearful Kethley said in a telephone interview.\n"Maybe, if he did do this, it's a blessing in disguise, and he can get the help he needs," she said.\nKethley said Dotson, a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in high school, seemed to become more interested in religion recently. She said he had been calling her nearly every day during the last few weeks and that he even called her Monday as he talked with the FBI.\n"He said he had so many things to talk to me about, but it would have to be for later," she said.\nBaylor coach Dave Bliss said the team and university were shaken by the events.\n"We keep hoping this isn't true," Bliss said in a statement Tuesday. "It seems unreal, especially that a 21-year-old who always wore that big smile and couldn't wait for the season to begin might be gone"
(07/03/03 1:00am)
WACO, Texas - Before he disappeared last month, Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy and his roommate were so worried about threats to their safety that they armed themselves for protection, a longtime friend said Wednesday.\nDaniel Okopnyi said he urged the Baylor forward to come stay with him in Fort Worth so he could avoid trouble, but Dennehy at first refused, saying he had to protect roommate Carlton Dotson.\n"He said, 'I've got Dotty's back,'" Okopnyi told ABC-TV's "Good Morning America."\nDennehy changed his mind about going to Fort Worth a few days later, saying June 14 he would come and bring Dotson along, Okopnyi said. Okopnyi said Dotson had a shotgun they were using for protection, but they were "trying to trade it in for two handguns," he said.\nThat was the last contact anyone has publicly reported with Dennehy. A woman told a newspaper she saw Dennehy and Dotson in Dennehy's vehicle in Waco on June 12. The vehicle was found last week on the East Coast.\nAccording to a search warrant affidavit citing a police informant, Dotson told a cousin he shot Dennehy as the two argued while firing guns.\nBut authorities called Dotson, a Hurlock, Md., resident who played basketball at Baylor last season, simply a "person of interest."\n"He's just a citizen. It's a missing person's case," said Hurlock police Capt. Chris Flynn.\nAuthorities said Tuesday they have no single suspect and still hope Dennehy is alive.\n"There's still a glimmer of hope Mr. Dennehy will show up and say, 'Hey, this is where I've been the whole time,'" Waco police spokesman Steve Anderson said.\nSearch dogs found no sign of Dennehy when the FBI helped Waco police search about 50 acres of private land north of town last week, Anderson said.\nNo charges have been filed, Anderson said. He said a Waco investigator interviewed Dotson on Friday, but he didn't know whether police had spoken to him since the affidavit was made public Monday.\nDotson told The Washington Post on Tuesday he has hired an attorney.\n"I want everyone associated with this to know my prayers are with them," Dotson told the newspaper.\nAt Hurlock, a rural community on Maryland's eastern shore, Dotson's aunt, Pat Waters, said he returned to town for the summer and was at her house Sunday, but they didn't discuss Dennehy. She didn't know where he was Tuesday.\nWaters said Dotson is "probably scared. He's not a person that talks a lot."\nGrady Irvin Jr., Dotson's lawyer, told the newspaper the next step is to "spend time with authorities to see if we can be of assistance." Irvin, a St. Petersburg, Fla., attorney who represents athletes, said Wednesday that he would release a statement later in the day.\nOkopnyi said Dennehy was worried about threats to Dotson by two of their teammates.\n"He was afraid for him. They were good friends," he said.\nOkopnyi said Dennehy "sounded extremely paranoid," which was unusual.\nDennehy's mother and stepfather told ABC their son and Dotson were friends, and Dotson seemed sincere and forthright.\nThey said Dennehy had no history with guns, though they knew he had told a coach he was worried about his safety.\n"We never raised our kids to touch guns or even be around guns. We never kept guns in our house," Valorie Brabazon said Wednesday. Not even toy guns, added her husband, Brian Brabazon.\nThe family reported Dennehy, a 6-foot-10-inch junior, missing June 19. His sport utility vehicle was found last week in a mall parking lot in Virginia Beach, Va.\nThe search warrant sought in the affidavit was for Dennehy's room and the contents of his computer. It doesn't say if anyone else was present when Dennehy and Dotson allegedly were firing guns. According to the affidavit, Dotson said he got rid of the guns while driving home to Maryland.\nA man who owns a Waco-area farm searched by police last week told The Dallas Morning News that Dennehy and Dotson were seen shooting guns there June 10, two days before Dennehy disappeared.\nThe property owner, who was not identified, said the two often visited the farm 20 miles northeast of Waco for sport shooting and fishing. The property owner's wife was the person who told the newspaper she saw the pair June 12.\nThe two had met the property owner and his wife in March while responding to an advertisement for pit bulls, the newspaper reported.\nDennehy sat out last season at Baylor because of NCAA transfer rules, his only year there after coming from the University of New Mexico, where he was cut after losing his temper during practice.
(10/03/02 6:33am)
FORT WORTH, Texas - Winslow Homer's watercolor, "The Woodcutter," Fitz Hugh Lane's "Sunset at Gloucester Harbor" and Georgia O'Keeffe's "Open Clam Shell" and "Closed Clam Shell" can not be viewed at any museum in New York City or Paris. \nThey're in Texas - where they usually aren't on public display at all. \nBut those and nearly 60 other pieces borrowed from private, public and corporate collections across the state are on display through Nov. 17 at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. \n"Celebrating America: Masterworks From Texas Collections" features paintings, sculptures, watercolors and photographs by celebrated artists from 1771 to 1969. \n"The caliber of the works is comparable to works in the great collections," said Jane Myers, the museum's chief curator. "And there's a surprise element in that many of the works in private collections weren't widely published or ever published before." \nShe said the museum wanted to showcase works considered masterpieces that also fit with Carter's permanent collection on display. \nMyers said the private collectors - including those who own works by Homer, Lane and O'Keeffe - were gracious in loaning their pieces. Some art owners don't want their names released because of security concerns about the expensive pieces, she said. \nThrough the Carter exhibit, John Singleton Copley's early 1770s oil portraits of Jabez and Sarah Brown Bowen, a wealthy and influential New England couple, have been reunited for the first time in 20 years.\nMyers said she also was surprised that some corporations had such extensive art collections. The Carter exhibit features Helen Corson's 1881 oil painting, "Uncle Ned and His Pupil," loaned by Wells Fargo. \nSBC Communications loaned the early 1900s photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, "The Steerage," showing wealthy ship passengers looking below at immigrants who were being returned to Europe. SBC also loaned O. Winston Link's 1956 photograph of a drive-in theater, "Hot Shot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia." \nBurlington Northern Santa Fe loaned the 1934 pastel drawing "Bullhead" by Winold Reiss, who was commissioned by the Great Northern Railroad Co. to record the Blackfoot Indians of Montana. \nThe exhibit also features works from museums at the University of Texas at Austin and Southwest Texas State University and in Fort Worth, San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso and Albany.