Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's premiere is set for 11 - 11 - 11

I am very excited about this. Alice Walton is The Richest Woman on Earth and she is The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened To The Arkansas Art World!!! She is putting Arkansas on The Map. Pretty soon Bentonville, Arkansas will be up there with Vienna, Austria and Paris, France.


http://www.crystalbridges.org/


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Colonial

Portraiture was the main subject for American art during the colonial period. Portraits helped colonists document and maintain family and business relationships as well as demonstrating their wealth and taste. The paintings were often based on British and European art, and thus became a way for North American colonists to link themselves visually to the culture of their homelands. After the Revolutionary War, artists made many portraits of founding fathers such as George Washington, to celebrate their achievements but also to provide models for American citizenship.

A few artists in the colonial period began exploring the richness of North American nature, as well as the continent's indigenous peoples.

Charles Willson Peale
George Washington
ca. 1780-1782

John Singleton Copley
Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr. (Frances Deering Wentworth)
1765

Gerardus Duyckinck I (attributed to)
Richa Franks
ca. 1735

Charles Bird King
Ottoe Half Chief, Husband of Eagle of Delight
ca. 1822

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Contemporary

Jenny Holzer
Venice Installation: Gallery D (Second Antechamber)
1990

Contemporary American art continues the open-ended experimental complexity of late 20th century art, an era in which stylistic pluralism became normative. Works that are representative, abstract, and conceptual, created in traditional media of painting, drawing, sculpture, but also collage, photography, mixed media, and new digital technologies coexist in a climate that simultaneously looks back to tradition and the history of art, forward to the new, while often championing social causes. As a distinct movement, contemporary art has established its own hierarchical concerns and networks, and continues to thrive within the context of contemporary global culture.

Walton Ford
The Island
2009

Kerry James Marshall
Our Town
1995

Andy Warhol
Dolly Parton
1985

Claes Oldenburg
Alphabet/Good Humor
1975

Nick Cave
Soundsuit