BENTONVILLE Crystal Bridges lands early colonial portraitist painting
Copley oil, glass sculpture museum’s latest additions
Friday, April 30, 2010
An influential piece of American colonial portraiture, part of a publicly criticized art sale by the New York Public Library Foundation in 2005, will join other paintings from the sale in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s collection, museum officials announced Thursday. Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr., an oil painting by early colonial portraitist John Singleton Copley, depicts Frances Wentworth Atkinson, a confident young woman at the center of a love triangle with two cousins. Crystal Bridges, financed by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton and the WaltonFamily Foundation, also announced the acquisition of Dress Impression with Wrinkled Cowl, a modern glass work by sculptor Karen LaMonte. The Copley painting is a classic example of the work of a technically gifted ...
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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 7 on 04/30/2010
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