Crystal Bridges Museum Featuring Frank Lloyd Wright Home, Andy Warhol Art
by July 5, 2015 9:55 pm 181 views
Crystal Bridges was featured on CBS Sunday Morning recently for its efforts to preserve and display a Frank Lloyd Wright home.
The museum has actually taken apart, transported and is reassembling the home from the fabled American architect.
Scott Eccleston is the man in charge: “This is a home that, if you grew up in Northwest Arkansas or the Midwest, this is the house that you would have built. And so it was a house for all.”
This 1,700-square-foot “house for all” was designed in 1954 by Frank Lloyd Wright. It used to sit 1,200 miles away, in Millstone, New Jersey.
It was owned by architects Sharon and Lawrence Tarantino. After years of watching flood waters threaten their beloved home, they asked the museum to help save it.
Watch the entire feature here.
In other museum news, as of July 4, visitors to Crystal Bridges’ in Bentonville can view the temporary exhibition “Warhol’s Nature.”
The exhibit is drawn primarily from the extensive collections of the The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. It explores the artist’s surprising lifelong engagement with nature as subject matter.
Visitors will have the opportunity to experience well-known artworks like Warhol’s Self-Portrait, the iconic Flowers series of the 1960s, and an interactive installation of his inflatable Clouds.
Crystal Bridges displays Warhol’s famous painting of Dolly Parton as part of the museum’s permanent collection.