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The Marvelous, Mystical Morris Graves

The Marvelous, Mystical Morris Graves

Art & Collection
Today is the birthday of artist Morris Graves, whose wonderful painting, Spirit Bird with Minnow, is part of Crystal Bridges’ permanent collection, and my favorite, though it has not been…
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The Last Laugh: Suffragettes and Mary Cassatt

The Last Laugh: Suffragettes and Mary Cassatt

Art & Collection

Today is the anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, August 18, 1920, granting women the right to vote, and thereby to become active participants in politics and public…

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The Monochromatic and Contradictory World of Mark Tansey

The Monochromatic and Contradictory World of Mark Tansey

Art & Collection
Artist Mark Tansey was born on August 2, 1949,  and curatorial intern Kaitlin Morelock would love to fill you in on some information behind the artist responsible for Landscape, located…
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Communities in Solidarity and the Art of Jacob Lawrence

Communities in Solidarity and the Art of Jacob Lawrence

Art & Collection
Your Google Doodle this morning links you to the history of New York City's Silent Parade, which took place  on this date 100 years ago. The city's Black population marched…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Art & Collection
First appearing in Crystal Bridges' 1940s to Now Gallery in 2016,   Untitled, 1981, is a paradigm of the most prolific stage of artmaking in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s unfortunately short career: 1981 to…
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New Acquisition: Elsie Driggs's Blast Furnace

New Acquisition: Elsie Driggs's Blast Furnace

Art & Collection
    New on view in Crystal Bridges' Early Twentieth-Century Art Gallery is Elsie Drigg's Precisionist painting, Blast Furnaces, created in 1927.     Elsie Driggs was born in 1898…
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Crystal Bridges Celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month by Remembering Artist/Activist Keith Haring

Crystal Bridges Celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month by Remembering Artist/Activist Keith Haring

Art & Collection
In remembrance of the 48th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that ignited the flame of the LGBT Civil Rights movement of the seventies and eighties, it seems appropriate to…
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Oh Deer! New Crystal Bridges Acquisition Visits Chicago

Oh Deer! New Crystal Bridges Acquisition Visits Chicago

Art & Collection

An enormous white tail deer, sculpted of painted fiberglass, recently appeared on the Riverwalk in Chicago, Illinois.  The sculpture, appropriately titled Deer, was created by artist Tony Tasset in 2015,…

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Robert Henri: American Original

Robert Henri: American Original

Art & Collection
  Instead of ascribing to the traditional norm of using predominantly white, upper-class subjects for painted portraits, Henri instead found inspiration in capturing the energy of everyday individuals. He also…
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May Day: Prints for the People

May Day: Prints for the People

Art & Collection
In honor of May Day: traditionally a celebration of Labor in many European countries, we will take a look at some works on paper in Crystal bridges collection that celebrate…
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The Powerful Influence of Walt Whitman

The Powerful Influence of Walt Whitman

Art & Collection
Walt Whitman is easily one of America’s most well-known poets. His collection, Leaves of Grass, was published in eight editions during his life, each with revisions and an expanded set…
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Poetry and Art  

Poetry and Art  

Art & Collection
April is National Poetry Month!  In celebration, let me introduce you to a few works in Crystal Bridges’ collection with poetic connections.   Kindred Spirits The two figures in this…
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Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr., Reunited for the First Time in Over a Century

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr., Reunited for the First Time in Over a Century

Art & Collection
Beginning this week, the great colonial-era painter John Singleton Copley receives the special recognition he deserves in a spotlight corner of our Colonial to Early-Nineteenth Century Gallery, thanks in part…
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Women's History Month: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Women's History Month: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Art & Collection
Sculptor and art collector Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942) was born the middle child in the midst of four brothers and was the great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, known for the railroad…
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Women's History Month: Pam Longobardi's Plastic Oceans

Women's History Month: Pam Longobardi's Plastic Oceans

Art & Collection Exhibitions
Pam Longobardi’s artwork is framed within a conversation about globalism and conservation, and involves painting, photography, and installation. In 2006, she founded the Drifters Project, an international collaborative artistic research…
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Women's History Month: Ruth Asawa

Women's History Month: Ruth Asawa

Art & Collection
  Ruth Aiko Asawa was born in 1926 in southern California to Japanese immigrants who worked as farmers. On December 7, 1941, Japanese aircraft bombed the US fleet at Pearl…
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Women's History Month: New Works by Remarkable Women

Women's History Month: New Works by Remarkable Women

Art & Collection
In the month of March, the galleries may look at little different, as several works not before seen at Crystal Bridges are being installed. They add to the diverse voices…
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Women's History Month: Joan Brown

Women's History Month: Joan Brown

Art & Collection
Self-Portrait with Fish and Cat is one of the largest of Joan Brown’s signature self-portraits and the first self-portrait by a woman to join the Crystal Bridges collection. Considered a…
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Black History Month: Kara Walker, "A Warm Summer Night in 1863,"

Black History Month: Kara Walker, "A Warm Summer Night in 1863,"

Art & Collection
Looming large against a chaotic illustrated scene, the caricatured silhouette of a hanged young black woman sets a dark tone for Kara Walker’s tapestry, A Warm Summer Night in 1863.…
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Black History Month: Fred Eversley

Black History Month: Fred Eversley

Art & Collection
Fred Eversley is an African American artist born in 1941. His path to becoming an artist, back in the early '60s, is an unusual one. The son of a New…
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