Crystal Bridges announces new artworks
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Robert Scott Duncanson’s oil painting Flatboat Men from 1865.
Two artworks — one a modern tapestry and the other a historic oil painting — that hearken to the Civil War-era will be in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art collection, museum officials announced Wednesday.
Robert Scott Duncanson’s oil painting Flatboat Men from 1865 depicts a landscape scene with water and boats in the timber areas of New England. Duncanson, a largely self-taught artist, is considered to be the first black U.S. painter to gain international fame, according to a news release from the museum.
Kara Walker’s post-modern tapestry, A Warm Summer Evening in 1863. + Enlarge
Kara Walker’s post-modern tapestry, A Warm Summer Evening in 1863, is based on an engraving published in Harper’s Magazine that documented the destruction of an orphanage for black children in New York City. Walker uses various materials, including wool, felt and paper to create silhouettes in her works.
Crystal Bridges was founded by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton and is under construction near downtown Bentonville. Originally scheduled to open in 2009, the museum has been delayed because of construction issues. A new opening date has not been announced.
For more information about the new works, read tomorrow’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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