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url=http://www.ozarksunbound.com/crystal-bridges-in-bentonville-to-open-11-11-11-cf/12789author =Christopher Spencerarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629091659weblinkurl-status=dead}}| dissolved = | location = 600 Museum Way,Bentonville, Arkansas| type = American art| founder = Alice Walton| architect = Moshe Safdie| director = Rod Bigelow| publictransit = | car_park = free garage and surface lot on siteweblink}}}}(File:Crystal Bridges at night.jpg|thumb|Crystal Bridges at dusk)Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The museum, founded by Alice Walton and designed by Moshe Safdie, officially opened on 11 November 2011. It offers free public admission.

Overview and founding

Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, spearheaded the Walton Family Foundation's involvement in developing Crystal Bridges. The museum's glass-and-wood design by architect Moshe Safdie and engineer Buro Happold features a series of pavilions nestled around two creek-fed ponds and forest trails. The soil is flinty silt loam derived from chert and cherty limestone and is mapped as Noark-Bendavis complex.WEB,weblink SoilWeb: An Online Soil Survey Browser | California Soil Resource Lab, The {{convert|217000|sqft|m2}} complex includes galleries, meeting and classroom spaces, a library, a sculpture garden, a museum store designed by architect Marlon Blackwell, a restaurant and coffee bar, named Eleven after the day the museum opened, "11/11/11".WEB,weblink Eleven, Crystalbridges.org, 21 July 2016, 18 May 2021,weblink dead, Crystal Bridges also features a gathering space that can accommodate up to 300 people. Additionally, there are outdoor areas for concerts and public events, as well as extensive nature trails. It employs approximately 300 people, and is within walking distance of downtown Bentonville.NEWS,weblink The Northwest Arkansas Morning News, Top Ten Most Expensive Projects Worth $369.5 Million, 1 January 2006, {{dead link|date=July 2016}}The museum has amassed $488 million in assets as of August 2008, an amount that will increase as more pieces are continually added to the museum's collection.Making change at WalMart {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121051103weblink |date=21 November 2008 }} It is the first major art museum (over $200 million endowment) to open in the United States since 1974. Over $317 million of the project's cost has been donated by Alice Walton. In 2023, Forbes called Walton the richest woman in the United States, with assets worth $66.5 billion.WEB, Denham, Jemima, The Richest Woman In America 2023,weblink 2024-01-30, Forbes, en, In 2005, art historian John Wilmerding was hired for acquisition and advice on museum programming.NEWS, A Determined Heiress Plots An Art Collection, The New York Times author=Carol Vogel url=http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=122819&page=1author =Jan Cottingham work=Arkansas Business}} He stated that often when an artwork became available through a private sale, Walton would state 'Wait. It will come to auction where we can get it at a better price,' and she was usually correct.A BILLIONAIRE'S EYE FOR ART SHAPES HER SINGULAR MUSEUM >WORK=THE NEW YORK TIMES AUTHOR=CAROL VOGEL,weblink He also stated that the museum ranks at least in the top half dozen of American art museums. The museum's "quality and its range and depth already place it among one of the very best."(File:Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art hall interior side.jpg|thumb|The main pavilion of the museum features a curved ceiling made with laminated beam supports and bowed glass walls.)Headlines were generated after delays in construction and considerably higher costs for the museum than originally proposed to the city of Bentonville, Arkansas led to concerns about the favorable tax exemptions granted to the museum from the state in 2005 to secure its construction.NEWS,weblink Taxes lost on museum unclear Crystal Bridges exemptions will pay off, officials say, Evie Blad, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock), 8 March 2010, Total tax losses to the state of Arkansas and the city of Bentonville are estimated at $17 million based on the financial disclosures given by the museum in the 2008 court case with Fisk University. The total amount of tax loss is estimated to have become considerably higher since then, but may never be disclosed due to the museum's guarded financial practices, including its decision not to disclose the amount spent since 2008 to secure collections, major art pieces, and lesser known works.WEB,weblink Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art – Page 12 – Northwest Arkansas, UrbanPlanet.org, 21 July 2016, {{Better source|reason=a forum is not an appropriate reference|date=July 2016}} However, the museum's IRS Form 990-PF notes acquisitions of $43.6 million during 2008, $81.9 million during 2007, $97.3 million in 2006. Through 2008, the total art acquisitions were at least $222.8 million.Don Bacigalupi was appointed director of the museum in August 2009.NEWS,weblink Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas Names a New Director, The New York Times, 17 August 2009, Randy Kennedy, Previously, Robert G. Workman had served as director.Press release, "Robert G. Workman named Executive Director" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060212023936weblink |date=12 February 2006 }}, 2 February 2006 In early May 2011, the museum announced three endowments by the Walton Family Foundation totaling $800 million. These endowments were established for operating expenses, acquisitions and capital improvements. The operating endowment, totaling $350 million, is being used to contribute to the museum's base annual operating expenses expected to total between $16–20 million per year. The acquisition endowment, totaling $325 million, will be used to fund additions to the museum's permanent collection. The remaining $125 million will be used as a capital improvement endowment to fund future improvements to and maintenance of the museum.Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Announces Endowment Gifts from Walton Family Foundation retrieved 2 July 2011 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012191517weblink |date=12 October 2011 }} As of July 2023, the museum had listed assets of over $1.7 billion. WEB, Roberts, Andrea Suozzo, Ken Schwencke, Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei, Alec Glassford, Brandon, 2013-05-09, Crystal Bridges Museum Of American Art Inc, Full Filing - Nonprofit Explorer,weblink 2023-07-28, ProPublica, en,

Collaboration with other museums and institutions

File:Benjamin rand.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand (1874) by Thomas EakinsThomas Eakins In 2006, the museum partnered with the National Gallery of Art in an attempt to purchase Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic from Thomas Jefferson University. Under the terms of the agreement, the two museums agreed to pay a record $68 million, but the university gave Philadelphia 45 days to match the offer. The Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts agreed to collectively match the offer and the painting remained in Philadelphia. The purchase forced both museums to sell some of their best Eakins pieces including Cowboy Singing and The Cello Player.{{Citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/arts/design/24gros.html?ref=thomas_eakins|title=Philadelphia Raises Enough Money to Retain a Masterpiece by Eakins|access-date=20 September 2010|author= Vogel, Carol|date=24 April 2008|work=The New York Times}} In April 2007, Crystal Bridges acquired another Eakins belonging to Thomas Jefferson University entitled Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand for an estimated $20 million.{{Citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/arts/design/12pain.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=philadelphia%20school%20sells%20second%20eakins&st=cse|title=Philadelphia School Sells a Second Eakins |access-date=24 September 2010|author= Vogel, Carol|date=12 April 2007|work=The New York Times}}Walton held talks with Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia in spring of 2007. The college was exploring selling part of the Maier Museum of Art's collection, but voted instead to sell select items from the collection at Christie's.{{Citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/arts/design/02gallery.html?scp=21&sq=crystal%20bridges%20museum%20collection&st=cse|title=A Southern College to Sell Prized Paintings|access-date=25 September 2010|author= Vogel, Carol|date=2 October 2007|work=The New York Times}}In 2006, Fisk University agreed to sell a 50% stake in a 101-piece Stieglitz collection to Crystal Bridges for $30 million. The collection was donated to the university by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1949. This agreement became tied up in a legal battle between Fisk University and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in New Mexico,WEB,weblink CultureGrrl | Fisk Continues Legal Quest to Share Collection, for $30 Million, with Crystal Bridges, Artsjournal.com, 2010-04-05, 2016-07-30, but the museum withdrew its lawsuit. The Tennessee Attorney General attempted unsuccessfully to stop the sale. In October 2010, a judge ruled that a 50% stake in the collection could be sold to Crystal Bridges if modifications to the contract were made so that Fisk University could not lose its interest in the collection, nor could the joint venture holding ownership of the collection between Fisk University and Crystal Bridges be based in Delaware (or outside Tennessee Courts). The modified agreement would allow the works to stay at Fisk University until 2013 and then begin a two-year rotation with Crystal Bridges.{{Citation|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/fisk-university-in-new-bid-to-gain-approval-to-sell-art/|title=Fisk University in New Bid to Gain Approval to Sell Art|access-date=12 October 2010|author=Kennedy, Randy|date=11 October 2010|work=The New York Times}} In April 2012, the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision to allow the sale to move forward. A few months later on August 2, the Davidson County Chancery Court approval a Final Agreed Order that established joint ownership between Fisk University and Crystal Bridges through the newly established Stieglitz Art Collection, LLC. The operating agreement required Fisk University to set aside $3.9 million of the $30 million sale proceeds to be used to establish a fund for the care and maintenance of the collection at the Carl Van Vechten Gallery at Fisk University.{{Citation|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/legal-battle-over-fisk-university-art-collection-ends/|title=Legal Battle Over Fisk University Art Collection Ends|access-date=5 August 2012|author=Pogrebin, Robin|date=3 August 2012|work=The New York Times}}WEB,weblink CultureGrrl | News Flash: Court Order to Send Fisk's Stieglitz Collection to Crystal Bridges in Fall 2013, Artsjournal.com, 2012-08-02, 2016-07-30, The court dispute cost Fisk University $5.8 million in legal fees.{{Citation|url=http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120804/NEWS04/308040056/Fisk-seals-deal-share-art?nclick_check=1|title=Fisk finalizes deal to sell half-stake of Alfred Stieglitz collection in end to long fight, half-stake sold to Arkansas museum|access-date=5 August 2012|author= Allyn, Bobby|date=4 August 2012|publisher=The Tennessean}}Since 2012, Crystal Bridges has participated in a four-year collaboration with the musée du Louvre in Paris, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. The resulting exhibitions are called American Encounters and feature works from the collections of all four partners. Each year, for the length of the collaboration, the museums develop the exhibition around a theme, such as portraiture. American Encounters has been seen in Paris, Bentonville, and Atlanta.

The Momentary

In early 2020, Crystal Bridges opened a satellite facility called The Momentary focused on visual and performing arts, culinary experiences, festivals, and artists-in-residence.WEB,weblink Introducing the Momentary, 2017-01-31, Walton Family Foundation, en, 2020-01-25,

Permanent collection

The museum's permanent collection features American art from the Colonial era to the contemporary period. All of the featured artists are United States citizens, though some spent most of their art careers in Europe. Notable works include a Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington as well as paintings by George Bellows, Jasper Cropsey, Asher Durand, Thomas Eakins, Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Charles Bird King, John La Farge, Stuart Davis, Romare Bearden, Norman Rockwell, Mary McCleary, Agnes Pelton, and Walton Ford. Also included are works by Chuck Close, Jasper Johns, Alfred Maurer, Jackson Pollock, Tom Wesselmann and Andrew Wyeth.{{citation|title=Alice's Wonderland: A Walmart heiress build a museum in the Ozarks |last=Mead|first=Rebecca|magazine=The New Yorker|date=27 June 2011}} Two works, Richard Caton Woodville's War News from Mexico and Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait's The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix were included in American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, a traveling exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.WEB,weblink American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 – MetPublications – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 31 July 2016, WEB,weblink Now at the Met: Crystal Bridges-Owned Painting Sold in 1994 by the National Academy, 12 October 2009, 31 July 2016, The Woodville painting was deaccessioned by the National Academy of Design, and was purchased in 1994 by Detroit collector Richard Manoogian. The piece was later purchased in 2004 by Crystal Bridges.WEB,weblink CultureGrrl | Now at the Met: Crystal Bridges-Owned Painting Sold in 1994 by the National Academy, Artsjournal.com, 2009-10-12, 2016-07-30, In May 2005, the museum purchased a coveted Asher B. Durand landscape entitled Kindred Spirits from the New York Public Library for more than $35 million in a sealed auction.{{Citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/14/arts/design/14muse.html?scp=8&sq=crystal%20Bridges%20collection&st=cse|title=A Determined Heiress Plots an Art Collection|access-date=25 September 2010|author= Vogel, Carol|date=14 May 2005|work=The New York Times}} In September 2012, the museum announced the acquisition of a major 1960 painting by Mark Rothko entitled No. 210/No. 211 (Orange). The abstract expressionist painting had been in a private Swiss collection since the 1960s and had only been shown in public twice.{{Citation|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444450004578002673878897636?mod=googlenews_wsj|title=A Rothko Fills a Museum's Breach|access-date=27 September 2012|author= Dobrzynski, Judith H.|date=22 September 2012|work=The Wall Street Journal}}Sculpture also figures prominently in the collection, on view in interior galleries and along outdoor sculpture trails. Sculptors represented in the permanent collection include Vanessa German, Paul Manship, Roxy Paine, Mark di Suvero, and James Turrell.In January 2014 Crystal Bridges acquired the Bachman–Wilson House by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The New Jersey house was dismantled and relocated to Bentonville.WEB, Frank Lloyd Wright,weblink cyrstalbridges.org, 23 July 2014, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140719133924weblink">weblink 19 July 2014, WEB, Bachman Wilson House,weblink tarantinostudio.com, 23 July 2014, Select auction results by date for items in the collection (including buyer's premium) are:

• Green River, Wyoming by Thomas Moran, purchased 5 December 2002 for $2.9245 millionWEB,weblink Thomas Moran (1837–1926) &124; Green River, Wyoming &124; Christie's, Christies.com, 2002-12-05, 2016-07-30,
• George Washington by Charles Willson Peale, purchased 18 May 2004 for $6.1675 millionWEB,weblink Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) &124; George Washington &124; Christie's, Christies.com, 2004-05-18, 2016-07-30,
• Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife by John Singer Sargent, purchased 19 May 2004 for $8.8 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807070547weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Orca Bates by Jamie Wyeth, purchased 19 May 2004 for $360,000.WEB,weblink Search &124; Sotheby's, Sothebys.com, 2016-07-30, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807051808weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Portrait of Anne Page by Dennis Miller Bunker, purchased 1 December 2004 for $3.592 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807050228weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• A French Music Hall by Everett Shinn, purchased 1 December 2004 for $7.848 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807101104weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• The Indian and the Lily by George de Forest Brush, purchased 1 December 2004 for $4.824 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807044714weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• The Studio by George Bellows, purchased 1 December 2004 for $2.472 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807135639weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Spring by Winslow Homer, purchased 1 December 2004 for $2.024 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807172319weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Ottoe Half Chief, Husband of Eagle of Delight by Charles Bird King, purchased 1 December 2004 for $1.352 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807082343weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Wai-Kee-Chai, Sanky Chief, Crouching Eagle by Charles Bird King, purchased 1 December 2004 for $792,000WEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160806235719weblink">weblink 6 August 2016,
• Portrait of Carolus Duran by John Singer Sargent, purchased 2 December 2004 for $724,300WEB,weblink John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) &124; Portrait of Carolus Duran &124; Christie's, Christies.com, 2004-12-02, 2016-07-30,
• Sick Puppy by Norman Rockwell, purchased 2 December 2004 for $511,500WEB,weblink Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) &124; Sick Puppy &124; Christie's, Christies.com, 2004-12-02, 2016-07-30, {{Citation|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/200507110038|title=Galleries – Discount shopping and fine art? Suzi Parker on the latest offer from Wal-Mart|access-date=6 December 2010|author= Parker, Suzi|date=11 July 2010|publisher=newstatesman.com}}
• George Washington (The Constable-Hamilton Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart, purchased 30 November 2005 for $8.136 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807090947weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr. by John Singleton Copley, purchased 30 November 2005 for $3.376 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807141216weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Marquis de Lafayette by Samuel F. B. Morse, purchased 30 November 2005 for $1.36 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807120349weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Winter Scene in Brooklyn by Francis Guy, purchased 30 November 2005 for $1.024 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807030025weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Rose Garden by Maria Oakey Dewing, purchased 24 May 2006 for $2.032 millionWEB, Carter B. Horsley,weblink Art/Auctions: American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture auction at Sotheby's May 24, 2006, Thecityreview.com, 2016-07-30,
• The Lantern Bearers by Maxfield Parrish, purchased 25 May 2006 for $4.272 millionWEB,weblink Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) -The Lantern Bearers, Christie?s, 30 July 2016,
• Dr. William Smith by Gilbert Stuart, purchased 23 May 2007 for $1.888 millionWEB,weblink american art – sotheby's n08322lot3j7qfen, 30 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807153213weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Still Life with Stretcher, Mirror, Bowl of Fruit by Roy Lichtenstein, purchased 20 June 2007 for £4.052 million (US$8.055 million – based on 20 June 2007 exchange rates)WEB,weblink Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) -Still Life with Stretcher, Mirror, Bowl of Fruit, Christie?s, 30 July 2016,
• Homage to the Square: Joy by Josef Albers, purchased 14 November 2007 for $1.497 millionWEB,weblink Catalogue – Sotheby's, 30 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807111411weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• View of Mount Etna by Thomas Cole, purchased 29 November 2007 for $541,000WEB,weblink Thomas Cole (1801–1848) -View of Mount Etna, Christie?s, 30 July 2016,
• Cupid and Psyche by Benjamin West, purchased 28 January 2009 for $458,500WEB,weblink Benjamin West, P.R.A. Swarthmore, PA 1738–1820 London -Cupid and Psyche, Christie?s, 30 July 2016,
• Our Town by Kerry James Marshall, purchased 13 May 2009 for $782,500WEB,weblink Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955) -Our Town, Christie?s, 30 July 2016,
• Supine Woman by Wayne Thiebaud, purchased 12 November 2009 for $1.818 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807134050weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Portrait of a Girl and Her Dog in a Grape Arbor by Susan Catherine Moore Waters purchased 7 March 2010 for $41,475WEB,weblink Sold at auction Susan Catherine Moore Waters (American, 1823-1900) Portrait of a Girl and Her Dog in a Grape Arbor. Auction Number 2494 Lot Number 107 &124; Skinner Auctioneers,
• Portrait of Martha Graham by Marisol Escobar, purchased 13 May 2010 for $116,500WEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807114655weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Dolly Parton by Andy Warhol, purchased 14 May 2010 for $914,500WEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807202643weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Standing Explosion (Red) by Roy Lichtenstein, purchased 14 May 2010 for $722,500WEB,weblink Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) -Standing Explosion (Red), Christie?s, 30 July 2016,
• The Return of the Gleaner by Winslow Homer, purchased 19 May 2010 for $2.2105 millionWEB,weblink Catalogue – Sotheby's, 30 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807072136weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Trinity by Adolph Gottlieb, purchased 11 May 2011 for $1.1425 millionWEB,weblink Catalogue – Sotheby's, 30 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807122010weblink">weblink 7 August 2016, {{Citation|url=http://www.arktimes.com/EyeCandy/archives/2011/06/17/and-now-from-northwest-arkansas-adolph-gottlieb|title=Eyes Candy|access-date=20 June 2011|author= Peacock, Leslie Newell|date=17 June 2011|work=The Arkansas Times}}
• Hammer and Sickle by Andy Warhol, purchase 13 November 2012 for $3.4425 millionWEB,weblink warhol andy hammer and sickle – other – sotheby's n08900lot6lrwzen, 30 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807130817weblink">weblink 7 August 2016, {{Citation|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Crystal-Bridges-answers-criticism-with-postwar-acquisitions/29121|title=Crystal Bridges answers criticism with post-war acquisitions|access-date=26 March 2013|author= Dobrzynski, Judith H.|date=21 March 2013|work=The Art Newspaper}}
• Untitled, 1989 (Bernstein 89 24) by Donald Judd, purchased 14 November 2012 for $10.1625 millionWEB,weblink Donald Judd (1928–1994) -Untitled, 1989 (Bernstein 89-24), Christie?s, 30 July 2016,
• Blackwell's Island by Edward Hopper, purchased 23 May 2013 for $19.1638 millionWEB,weblink Edward Hopper (1882-1967),
• Coca-Cola [3] by Andy Warhol, purchased 12 November 2013 for $57.3 millionWEB,weblink Andy Warhol (1928–1987) -Coca-Cola [3], Christie?s, 30 July 2016,
• Flag by Jasper Johns, purchased 11 November 2014 for $36.005 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160701163809weblink">weblink 1 July 2016,
• No. 210/211 (Orange) by Mark Rothko, purchased 11 November 2014 for $44.965 million {{citation needed|reason=Previous citation was incorrect.|date=September 2016}}
• Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 by Georgia O'Keeffe, purchased 20 November 2014 for $44.405 millionWEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160419101745weblink">weblink 19 April 2016, WEB,weblink Sotheby's: Fine Art Auctions & Private Sales for Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more – Sotheby's, 31 July 2016, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160807061853weblink">weblink 7 August 2016,
• Miss Liberty by Robert Colescott, purchased on 17 February 2023 for $4.5 millionWEB, 2023-02-20, Crystal Bridges Museum acquires $4.5m Robert Colescott painting at Bonhams auction,weblink 2023-02-21, The Art Newspaper - International art news and events,

Selected works in the museum collection by chronological order

File:Stuart-george-washington-constable-1797.jpg|Portrait of George Washington (The Constable-Hamilton Portrait, 1797) by Gilbert StuartFile:Benjamin West - Cupid and Psyche - 2010.44 - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.jpg|Cupid and Psyche (1808) by Benjamin WestFile:The Village Politicians by John Lewis Krimmel, c. 1819.JPG|The Village Politicians (c. 1819) by John Lewis KrimmelFile:Francis Guy - Winter Scene in Brooklyn.jpg|Winter Scene in Brooklyn (c.1817-1820) by Francis GuyFile:Samuel Beals Thomas and family.jpg|Samuel Beals Thomas, with His Wife, Sarah Kellogg Thomas, and Their Two Daughters, Abigail and Pauline (1830) by Edward Dalton MarchantFile:View of Mt. Edna Cole.jpg|View of Mount Etna (1843–44) by Thomas ColeFile:War News from Mexico.jpg|War News from Mexico (1848) by Richard Caton WoodvilleFile:Thomas Cole The Good Sheperd.jpg|The Good Shepherd (1848) by Thomas ColeFile:Asher Durand Kindred Spirits.jpg|Kindred Spirits (1849) by Asher B. DurandFile:Benjamin rand.jpg|Portrait of Professor Benjamin Rand (1874) by Thomas EakinsFile:Mary Cassatt The Reader 1877.jpg|The Reader (1877) by Mary CassattFile:Bierstadt Albert Indian Encampment Late Afternoon.jpg|Indian Encampment, Late Afternoon (1878) by Albert BierstadtFile:Sargent - Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife.jpg|Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife (1885) by John Singer SargentFile:The-Art-Student-(or-Portrait-of-James-Wright)-large.jpg|The Art Student: Portrait of James Wright (circa 1890) by Thomas EakinsFile:Theodore Robinson - World's Columbian Exposition - 2010.73 - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.jpg|World's Columbian Exposition (1894) by Theodore RobinsonFile:Maxfield Parrish The Lantern Bearers 1908.jpg|The Lantern Bearers (1908) by Maxfield ParrishFile:GW Bellows Aushubarbeiten bei Nacht 1909.jpg|Excavation at Night (1908) by George Bellows

References

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External links

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• Architectural Record, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Safdie Architects, commentary, slide show, and drawings, January 2012
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111111035232weblink">TimePhotos (Time magazine), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, photos, 21 November 2011
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120223061709weblink">Bridges Acquires New Work by Walton Ford
• 'A Billionaire’s Eye for Art Shapes Her Singular Museum', Carol Vogel, The New York Times, 16 June 2011
• American Art Artnews 1/12/2012
• Virtual tour of the Crystal Bridges Museum provided by Google Arts & Culture
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