Explore the West Without Leaving the South!

Looking for something different to do this summer? Then visit the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. Located just 40 miles northwest of Atlanta and roughly 60 miles south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Booth Western Art Museum provides visitors the opportunity to explore the west without leaving the South. The core of the Museum's permanent collection focuses on Western artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Artists represented in the collection include Howard Terpning, Donna Howell-Sickles, Roy Anderson, Thom Ross, Maynard Dixon, Andy Warhol, Carrie Ballantyne, Carrie Fell, Steve Penley, Kim Wiggins, Carrie Fell and many more.

The Booth Western Art Museum collection also includes a Western illustration gallery and a gallery of Western movie posters. In addition to the Western art, the Booth Western Art Museum has contemporary Civil War art and the Carolyn & James Millar Presidential Gallery containing an original signed letter from every President.

Throughout the year, the Booth Western Art Museum hosts a number of exhibitions. Over the past year, exhibitions have included photographs by Jay Dusard, Steve Fitch, and Gene Peach; Native American baskets from the Lauren Rodgers Museum of Art; Native American rugs from the Teecs Nos Pos Trading Post in Arizona; art of the Taos and Santa Fe art colonies collected by Billy Schenck as well as Billy Schenck's own artwork; and ponies from the Trail of Painted Ponies. The Museum has also host exhibtions by other artist from around the Southeast who work in the field of Western art.

The Booth Western Art Museum is a great place to bring the family. Children and adults alike can learn about Western art and American history in a fun environment. If you bring the kids, be sure to visit Sagebrush Ranch. This interactive gallery lets children learn about art and history through a number of hands on activities. They can ride in a rocking stage coach, play at a child size chuck wagon, play checkers in the farm house, read a book in the bunk house, and dress up like a cowgirl or cowboy and then draw themselves while looking in a mirror. They can also learn about light, color, and composition in artwork.