Crystal Bridges - The Collection

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas has some very expensive pieces of fine art in their collection. I found this information on Wikipedia...I have posted a few of my favorite pieces at the bottom...

The museum's permanent collection features American art from the Colonial era to contemporary work. Notable works include a Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington as well as paintings by George Bellows, Jasper Cropsey, Asher Durand, Thomas Eakins, Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Charles Bird King, John LaFarge, Stuart Davis, Romare Bearden, Norman Rockwell, Mary McCleary and Walton Ford. Also included are works by Chuck Close, Jasper Johns, Alfred Maurer, Jackson Pollock and Tom Wesselman. Two works, Richard Caton Woodville's War News from Mexico and Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait's The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix were included in American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, a traveling exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Woodville painting was deaccessioned by the National Academy of Design, and was purchased in 1994 by Detroit collector Richard Manoogian. The piece was later purchased in 2004 by Crystal Bridges.

In May 2005, the museum purchased a coveted Asher B. Durand landscape entitled Kindred Spirits from the New York Public Library for more than $35 million in a sealed auction. In September 2012, the museum announced the acquisition of a major 1960 painting by Mark Rothko entitled No. 210/No. 211 (Orange). The abstract expressionist painting had been in a private Swiss collection since the 1960s and had only been shown in public twice.
Sculpture also figures prominently in the collection, on view in interior galleries and along outdoor sculpture trails. Sculptors represented in the permanent collection include Paul Manship, Roxy Paine, Mark di Suvero, and James Turrell.
Select auction results by date for items in the collection (including buyer's premium) are:

• Green River, Wyoming by Thomas Moran, purchased 5 December 2002 for $2.9245 million
• George Washington by Charles Willson Peale, purchased 18 May 2004 for $6.1675 million
• Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife by John Singer Sargent, purchased 19 May 2004 for $8.8 million
• Orca Bates by Jamie Wyeth, purchased 19 May 2004 for $360,000.
• Portrait of Anne Page by Dennis Miller Bunker, purchased 1 December 2004 for $3.592 million
• A French Music Hall by Everett Shinn, purchased 1 December 2004 for $7.848 million
• The Indian and the Lily by George de Forest Brush, purchased 1 December 2004 for $4.824 million
• The Studio by George Bellows, purchased 1 December 2004 for $2.472 million
• Spring by Winslow Homer, purchased 1 December 2004 for $2.024 million
• Ottoe Half Chief, Husband of Eagle of Delight by Charles Bird King, purchased 1 December 2004 for $1.352 million
• Wai-Kee-Chai, Sanky Chief, Crouching Eagle by Charles Bird King, purchased 1 December 2004 for $792,000
• Portrait of Carolus Duran by John Singer Sargent, purchased 2 December 2004 for $724,300
• Sick Puppy by Norman Rockwell, purchased 2 December 2004 for $511,500
• George Washington (The Constable-Hamilton Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart, purchased 30 November 2005 for $8.136 million
• Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr. by John Singleton Copley, purchased 30 November 2005 for $3.376 million
• Marquis de Lafayette by Samuel F. B. Morse, purchased 30 November 2005 for $1.36 million
• Winter Scene in Brooklyn by Francis Guy, purchased 30 November 2005 for $1.024 million
• Rose Garden by Maria Oakey Dewing, purchased 24 May 2006 for $2.032 million
• The Lantern Bearers by Maxfield Parrish, purchased 25 May 2006 for $4.272 million
• Still Life with Stretcher, Mirror, Bowl of Fruit by Roy Lichtenstein, purchased 20 June 2007 for £4.052 million (US$8.055 million - based on 20 June 2007 exchange rates)
• Homage to the Square: Joy by Josef Albers, purchased 14 November 2007 for $1.497 million
• View of Mount Edna by Thomas Cole, purchased 29 November 2007 for $541,000
• Our Town by Kerry James Marshall, purchased 13 May 2009 for $782,500
• Supine Woman by Wayne Thiebaud, purchased 12 November 2009 for $1.818 million
• Portrait of a Girl and Her Dog in a Grape Arbor by Susan Catherine Moore Waters purchased 7 March 2010 for $41,475
• Portrait of Martha Graham by Marisol Escobar, purchased 13 May 2010 for $116,500
• Dolly Parton by Andy Warhol, purchased 14 May 2010 for $914,500
• Standing Explosion (Red) by Roy Lichtenstein, purchased 14 May 2010 for $722,500
• The Return of the Gleaner by Winslow Homer, purchased 19 May 2010 for $2.2105 million
• Trinity by Adolph Gottlieb, purchased 11 May 2011 for $1.1425 million

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