Crystal Bridges Visit

It's the setting, back in the woods.  It's the plantings and the integration of the building with its surroundings.  It's the water in the middle of the complex.  It's the marriage of glass, copper and gleaming wood.

It's the artwork. 

"Room" by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, an entire room of marquetry, a craft of the wealthy and elite.  Yet in this room, she shows the most mundane articles of American life.

"After the Last Supper" by Devorah Sperber, a life-size reconstruction of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" using spools and spools of thread.

"Red Flowers and Sailboat" by Marsden Hartley

"Motive of Space and Form -- A New Jersey Village (Montville)" by Oscar Bluemner

"Nudes" by Milton Avery

"La Mort des Enfant[s] de Bethel" by Bob Thompson

It's the whole enchilada. 

It's a wonderful day trip to Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas.