BENTONVILLE, Ark., August 25, 2009 –Currently on display at Crystal Bridges at the Massey, Harry Miller’s Vision of Arkansas, 1900 – 1910 offers a fascinating glimpse of early 20th century life in north central Arkansas, from picnics and courtship scenes to the construction of railroads and dams. Jeannie Whayne, a professor of history at the [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Exhibition Explores Arkansas’ Past
August 19, 2009 – 12:58 pm
Harry Miller, Untitled (Black man and two girls with pirogue in cypress swamp), ca. 1900-1910, photographic print, courtesy of Museum of Discovery, Little Rock, Ark.
BENTONVILLE, Ark., August 19, 2009 – Couples courting, children laboring in a cotton field and a cave-side picnic are among the candid glimpses of early 20th century Arkansas offered in a new [...]
Crystal Bridges Names New Director
August 17, 2009 – 9:09 am
Don Bacigalupi to Lead Museum
BENTONVILLE, Ark., August 17, 2009 – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that Don Bacigalupi has been appointed director of the museum, and will start in late-October 2009. Since 2003, Bacigalupi has served as president, director, and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art. Alice Walton, founder and chair [...]