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Happy Birthday, George Bellows!

Happy Birthday, George Bellows!

Art & Collection
George Bellows, 1882 - 1925 Self-portrait, ca. 1921 watercolor Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of George Hopper Fitch, B.A. 1932, in honor of Richard S. Field   August 12 marks…
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Happy Birthday Arthur Dove

Happy Birthday Arthur Dove

Art & Collection
August 2  is the birthday of American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946).  Crystal Bridges collection contains two paintings by Dove, plus nine others in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, held jointly by Crystal Bridges Museum…
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The Four Seasons: Philip Haas interprets Giuseppe Arcimboldo

The Four Seasons: Philip Haas interprets Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Art & Collection Exhibitions Nature & Outdoor

Philip Haas’s set of monumental outdoor sculptures, The Four Seasons, are on display on the grounds at Crystal Bridges through the summer. These colorful and fanciful works are a perfect…

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Satisfied: Giuseppe Ceracchi’s Bust of Alexander Hamilton

Satisfied: Giuseppe Ceracchi’s Bust of Alexander Hamilton

Art & Collection
By Amy Torbert, 2015-16 Tyson Scholar Amy Torbert was a 2015-2016 Tyson Scholar in American art at Crystal Bridges. She is a PhD candidate in art history at the University…
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A Wyeth Family Reunion in Crystal Bridges' Galleries

A Wyeth Family Reunion in Crystal Bridges' Galleries

Art & Collection Library
"In 1911, the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons engaged Wyeth to illustrate Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, his first commission in Scribner's popular series of classic stories. The 17 paintings…
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Happy Birthday to George Inness, America’s Great Nineteenth-Century Artist-Philosopher

Happy Birthday to George Inness, America’s Great Nineteenth-Century Artist-Philosopher

Art & Collection
May 1 is the birthday of George Inness (1825-1894), an American painter who came of age in the era of the Hudson River School artists, many of whom strongly influenced…
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Museum Officials Dealing with Overnight Break-In: April Fools Prank?

Museum Officials Dealing with Overnight Break-In: April Fools Prank?

Art & Collection

Early this morning, curators on routine gallery walk-throughs discovered that Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art had experienced a strange break-in overnight. Despite state-of-the-art security systems, professional protection services staff,…

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Women's History Month: Vanessa German

Women's History Month: Vanessa German

Art & Collection
In honor of Women's History Month, each week we are profiling some of the women artists in Crystal Bridges' collection.  This week we look at Vanessa German: artist, performer, activist, poet,…
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Women's History Month: Meet Faith Ringgold

Women's History Month: Meet Faith Ringgold

Art & Collection

Your work is autobiographical, but not always directly, there are characters… No, it’s from my experience. It’s what I know the best: my experience, who I am, where I am,…

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A short conversation with Max Ferguson

A short conversation with Max Ferguson

Art & Collection

To sooth the pain of our first Monday of Daylight Saving Time, we turn our bleary, red-rimmed and tired eyes to Max Ferguson’s masterful painting, Time. Ferguson captures quiet, everyday…

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Women’s History Month: Lida Moser

Women’s History Month: Lida Moser

Art & Collection Exhibitions

In honor of Women’s History Month, and our current temporary exhibition of photography, The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, today’s Wednesday Women’s blog focuses on photographer Lida Moser.…

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E. Leopold Trouvelot and Intergalactic Kitchen Printing

E. Leopold Trouvelot and Intergalactic Kitchen Printing

Art & Collection At the Museum
You don’t have to have a lot of fancy equipment to make art. Crystal Bridges’ Museum Educator Moira Anderson demonstrated this recently in an Art by the Glass workshop titled…
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Women's History Month: Agnes Pelton

Women's History Month: Agnes Pelton

Art & Collection
In honor of Women's History Month, we will be highlighting a female artist from Crystal Bridges' art and library collections each Wednesday. We begin with this profile of Agnes Pelton…
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Welcoming Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (L.A.)

Welcoming Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (L.A.)

Art & Collection
"We need our own space to think and digest what we see. And we also have to trust the viewer and trust the power of the object. And the power…
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Elihu Vedder: "Young Marsyas"

Elihu Vedder: "Young Marsyas"

Art & Collection
February 26 is the birthday of Elihu Vedder (1836 – 1923), an American artist whose playful painting, Young Marsyas, is on view in Crystal Bridges' Early Nineteenth-Century Gallery. Vedder was born in New York City…
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Framing Mrs. Atkinson

Framing Mrs. Atkinson

Art & Collection

The frames on the paintings in Crystal Bridges’ permanent collection are a subject of great interest to Museum guests. Many times the antique, ornate frames are nearly as beautiful as the…

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Neil Welliver: Snow on Alden Brook

Neil Welliver: Snow on Alden Brook

Art & Collection
Snow has been much in the news lately, which brings to mind one of the perennial favorite artworks in Crystal Bridges’ permanent collection: Neil Welliver’s Snow on Alden Brook. This…
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The Rise and Fall of Samuel F.B. Morse

The Rise and Fall of Samuel F.B. Morse

Art & Collection Exhibitions

This weekend the temporary exhibition, Samuel F.B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention, opened at Crystal Bridges. It focuses around a single monumental painting by the man most…

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Scholarship at Crystal Bridges: A Tyson Scholar's Perspective

Scholarship at Crystal Bridges: A Tyson Scholar's Perspective

Art & Collection Library Nature & Outdoor

Tyson Scholar Amy Torbert is a little more than half way through her nine-month research residency at Crystal Bridges. For today’s post, she takes time off from her dissertation to offer an…

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Everett Shinn

Everett Shinn

Art & Collection Library
Today is the birthday of Everett Shinn (1876 – 1953), a member of the Ashcan School of painting spearheaded by Robert Henri. Shinn is best known for his paintings of…
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