Crystal Bridges Museum Of American Art, Inside 2

What follows is the tiniest selection of paintings from Crystal Bridges. We left impressed with the museum but also with our need to learn more about American art.

Karen LaMonte, Dress Impression with Wrinkled
Cowl, 2007; not in the main collection but so
impressive

Edward Dalton Marchant, Samuel Beals Thomas, with his
Wife..., 1830; love the shades

John James Audubon, Wild Turkey Cock, Hen, and Young, 1826

James Wooldridge, Indians of Virginia, 1675

George Catlin, Indian Encampment, 1852

Samuel F. B. Morse, Marquis Lafatette, 1829;
yes, that Morse, of code fame; he was a portrait
artist before becoming an inventor; good career
move...

Richard Caton Woodville, War News from
Mexico, 1848; President U. S. Grant characterized
the "Mexican-American" war as "that most
shameless of wars," a power grab of the strong
against the weak; visit Los Pinos to see what
Mexico looked like in 1848

John Frederick Kensett, View of Mount Washington, 1852

Thomas Moran, View of the Catawissa in Autumn

Albert Bierstadt, Indian Encampment

Thomas Moran, Green River Valley, 1878

Frederic Remington, Cowpuncher's Lullaby,
1906; among the specimens of the biggies...
but no Charlie Russell as yet

Mary Cassatt, Summertime, 1894; lots of Cassatts here

John Singer Sargent, Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife,
1885; she's the tumble of gold on the right

Maxfield Parrish, The Lantern Bearers, 1908

Another Cassat, The Reader, 1877

Winslow Homer, Return of the Gleaner, 1877

Two Georgia O'Keefes

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Jim Dine, The Garden of Eden, 2003

Mark Tansey, Landscape, 1994

Felix Gonzalez Torres, a bunch of hard candy plowed into a
rectangle...

Tom Utich, Enassamishhinjijweian, 2009

Andrew Wyeth, Airborne, 1996

Duane Henson, Man on a Bench, 1977

A Warhol, of course

ill Barnett, Woman Reading, 1965

John Koch, Studio--End of the Day, 1961

Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, 1943

Crystal Bridges Museum Of American Art: Inside, 1

It's a month later, at least, and the passage of time will diminish my post on Crystal Bridges. Perhaps I'll come back later and edit-in some more material. The museum's collection is already noteworthy, and it is only in its infancy. With the financial backing it has received, one can hope for much more. Our tour began with a special exhibition on dance in American painting and then proceeded to the more general collection.

George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1846

William Holbrook Beard, The Bear Dance, 1870; an old
favorite of ours, a banner of which hung over our house in
Montana; the bears liked it

John Singer Sargent, Capri Girls Dancing on the Roof

Mary Cassatt, Bacchante, 1872

Arthur Frank Matthews, Youth, 1917

Robert Henri, Salome Dancer

Frank Myers, The Charleston, 1926

Thomas Hart Benton, Burlesque, 1930

Everett Shinn, The Green Ballet, 1943

Anne Estelle Rice, The Egyptian Dancers, 1910

Diego Rivera, study for the ballet H. P. (Horsepower)

Arthur Bowen Davies, Dances

David Shore, Terpishore and Euterpe

Crystal Bridges Museum Of American Art: Outside

Our stint in DC ended. Rachel and Will returned to find Daphne, Peter, and Bianca alive and well, and still in captivity, and other things in order, except perhaps the somewhat depleted supply of wine and spirits. We moved our act back to Knoxville, to reclaim Le Sport and to spend a few more days with Marie and Norm and Stacey and the boys. The usual threatening weather (December now) forced us on to Fayetteville and old-time friends Tawana and Wes. They were our upstairs neighbors in married student housing at Florida State in the late 60s. We have stayed in touch all these years, watched each others' children grow up, and visited whenever we could. They figure in quite a few previous episodes of this blog. Anyhow, we had been wanting to see Bentonville's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Tawana was happy to oblige.

Crystal Bridges is a purpose-built museum, quite new, the complex designed to complement its natural setting. The buildings and exterior are worth a post by themselves.

Google Earth view

Has a sister in Bilbao

Overview

Restaurant

Assorted buildings; the complex has everything you'd want in
a contemporary museum, library, research center, auditorium,
special exhibits areas, etc.

Bridge over Crystal Creek

Panning around the assortment of buildings ranged around the
pond

One of the exterior highlights is a Frank Lloyd Wright
USONIAN house moved to Crystal Bridges from its original
setting in New Jersey; here, a helpful model

Thus

No fotos inside

But the guided tour was great

Helpful info

About this point, Tawana astutely noted the similiarity between
the buildings' roofs and

The local delicacy, armadillo...art indeed imitates nature

Beautiful place, and that's just the outside