Crystal Bridges

Sherry and I made a two-day (weekend) visit to NW Arkansas, in late October 2016.  We enjoyed beautiful, mild, autumn weather.

Our first destination was Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.   Financed by Sam Walton's daughter Alice.   Located in Bentonville.  Admission is free to the museum and grounds.

We spent about 3 hours strolling through the four galleries.  The galleries were organized to provide a progression from early nineteenth century portrait and landscape painting, through the twentieth century with its modern art and mixed media pieces.

Each gallery featured a timeline of social and cultural events, which provided context for the exhibited artwork.

There were several startling exhibits - mixed media that were amazing lifelike.  Sherry and I were both stunned by this suspended fellow on the right.





The last gallery highlighted the period 1940 to today, which matches our lives.  This huge wall mural was called Moses and the Burning Bush.








In the second gallery, we noticed two landscapes of Yosemite, a national park which Sherry and I toured last year.

These landscapes were done in mid-1800s.  I don't recall the artists.


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