Crystal Bridges previews new exhibit

NWA Democrat-Gazette/CHARLIE KAIJO Alan Braddock, associate professor of art history at the College of William & Mary, discusses a piece by Alexis Rockman entitled "Aviary" during a media preview, Thursday, May 23, 2019 at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville. The new exhibition called Ҏatureճ Nation: American Art and Environment,Ӡshowcases 300 years of artwork reflecting ideas about the natural world and humanityճ place within it. More than 100 paintings, photographs and installations are featured, including work by Thomas Moran, Dorothea Lange and Frank Lloyd Wright.
NWA Democrat-Gazette/CHARLIE KAIJO Alan Braddock, associate professor of art history at the College of William & Mary, discusses a piece by Alexis Rockman entitled "Aviary" during a media preview, Thursday, May 23, 2019 at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville. The new exhibition called Ҏatureճ Nation: American Art and Environment,Ӡshowcases 300 years of artwork reflecting ideas about the natural world and humanityճ place within it. More than 100 paintings, photographs and installations are featured, including work by Thomas Moran, Dorothea Lange and Frank Lloyd Wright.

BENTONVILLE -- The connection between art and nature is the guiding idea behind the latest temporary exhibit at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

"Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment," opens to the public Saturday and runs through Sept. 9. The museum offered a media tour Thursday.

The exhibit contains 100 works from master artists -- including Frank Lloyd Wright, Dorothea Lange, John James Audubon and Ansel Adams -- from 70 eminent collections. It uses the artist's perspective to consider the relationships between art, science and the natural world -- and humanity's effect on it.

An impressive self-portrait by artist Charles Willson Peale, titled "The Artist in His Museum," greets visitors as one of the first works they encounter in the exhibition.

Crystal Bridges will be the final venue for the exhibition, which opened at Princeton University Art Museum last year before traveling to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. It was co-curated by Karl Kusserow, curator of American art at the Princeton University of Art Museum and Alan C. Braddock, associate professor of art history and American studies at William and Mary.

NW News on 05/24/2019

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