The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is located on 120 acres in the Ozark Woods.
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| We glimpsed The Way of Color (2009, by James Turrell), the first Skyscape to feature LED lights; Turrell’s Skyspaces are freestanding, concrete structures clad in stone that manipulate light coming through an ocular opening in the ceiling: changing colors (usually at dawn and dusk) in the structure change the view of the sky |
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| A model showing the front of the Bachman-Wilson House, which Crystal Bridges had moved from New Jersey when it was seriously threatened by a series of floods |
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| The Welcome Pavilion (2014, by students in the Design and Fabrication program at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas) explained how the house was dismantled piece by numbered-piece and meticuously reconstructed here in 2015 |
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| The front of the house faced a wooded valley and could not be easily photographed; note the carport on the right, a feature "invented" by Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| There was plenty of space in the "backyard" for a photo |
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| We returned to the immense Crystal Bridges Museum (2011, by Moshe Safdie), built around and over two ponds fed by natural springs; on the right is the Great Hall near the South Entrance |
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| A glass-enclosed bridge is part of the namesake of Crystal Bridges |
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| The Garden of Eden (2003, by Jim Dine) is created with garden tools |
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| Holy Grail (2016, mined from Zigras Mine, Blue Springs, AR) is considered to be America's single greatest quartz crystal |
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| Digital projection of La creación/The Creation mural (1921-1923, at the Simon Bolivar Amphitheatre, Mexico City, Mexico) |
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| Balle en Tehuantepec/Dance in Tehuantepec (1928) with couple performing the traditional zandunga dance (KSS) |
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| Tehuana (Aurea Procel) (1928) portrays a woman writer and doctor wearing traditional garment that frames her face with lace |
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| Digital projection of El mercado/The Market (1923-1924, at the Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City, Mexico) |
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| Vendedora de flores/Flower Seller (1926) is nursing her daughter |
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| Vendedora de flores/Flower Seller (1938); there were many, many flower seller paintings! |
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| Niña sentada sobre petate/ Child Sitting on a Bedroll (1927) |
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| Los hijos de mi compadre/ My Compadre's Children (1930) (KSS) |
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| Frida y Diego Rivera/Frieda and Diego Rivera (1930, by Frida Kahlo) |
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| La tercera internacional/The Third International (1933) depicts the founding of the Comintern (the international Communist movement) in 1919 (KSS) |
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| Costumes (Banana and Tobacco) and set of the ballet H P/ Horsepower (1932) that premiered at Philadelphia's Metropolitan Opera House, and closed after opening night |
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| Paisaje simbólico/Symbolic Landscape (1940); can you see the fists and face (lower left) of the enraged man who may be attacking the female form of the tree? (KSS) |
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| Desnudo con alcatraces/Nude with Calla Lilies (1944) with Nieves Orozco, an Otomí ballet dancer as the model |
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| Turquoise Reeds & Ozarks Fiori (2012, by Dale Chihuly) |
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| Lunch was from the museum's Eleven Restaurant: Bentonville Hot Chicken Sandwich with fries |
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| Peppadew Cheese Melt and fries; Peppadew is a South African brand of pickled Juanita peppers |
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| Oh, boy! Two persons at a time were given 60 seconds in a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room: My Heart is Dancing into the Universe (2018) |
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| Kent and Tamiko are reflected in a mirror in a room full of color-changing balls |
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| Second in the Screen Door Sequence: Atticus and Scout (2015, by Jamie Wyeth) |
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| The Cost of Removal (2017, by Titus Kaphar) After Andrew Jackson on Sam Patch (1833, by Ralph Earl), with strips of canvas covered with Jackson's writings on the costs of removing the indigenous Americans from their lands - leading to the Trail of Tears; the artist reflects on the impact one president could have on generations of people (KSS) |
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| Tobacco Sorters (1942-1944, by Thomas Hart Benton) |
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| Walking to Boras (2006, by Jim Dine) was created as a study for a bronze statue commissioned by the city of Borås, Sweden (KSS) |
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| Le sucrier et les bugies/Sugar Bowl and candles (1915, by Diego Rivera, Cubist style) |
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| Mimbres Man and Rabbit (1981, by Tsa-sah-wee-eh/Helenn Hardin) (KSS) |
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| Plexus No 27 (2014, by Gabriel Dawe) is created with miles of colored thread strung between hooks, reminding us to be open to multiple points of view |
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| Au Café (Synchromy) (1918, by Stanton Macdonald-Wright, the artist who co-founded the Synchromism art movement, based on color scales (KSS) |
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| The Bubble (1928, by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth) balances on the ball of one foot |
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| In Exaltation of Flowers (c 1910-1913, by Edward Steichen) depicts a) Coleus and Florence Meyer Poppy, b) Petunia, Begonia Rex and the Freer Bronze, and c) Clivia, Fuchsia and Hilium Henryi, in Art Nouveau style (KSS) |
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| It Is Very Queer, Isn't It? (1885, by James Henry Beard) includes the book, The Descent of Man (1871, by Charles Darwin), encouraging viewers and the chimpanzee, Mr Crowley, to ponder evolution(KSS) |
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| George Washington [The Constable-Hamilton Portrait] (1797, by Stuart Gilbert) |
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| George Washington Looked Into Another World (1987, by Howard Finster) (KSS) |
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| George Washington Looked Into Another World detail (KSS) |
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| Yield (2011, by Roxy Paine) is located at the Main Entrance and is a Roadside America attraction |
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| Another suggestion by Carol was to see the Mildred B Cooper Memorial Chapel (1988, by E Fay Jones and Maurice Jennings); Jones apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| The chapel appears to be an open-air structure, but it is built with steel and glass |
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