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The size, in square feet, of the new art museum in northwest Arkansas
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is big-city quality. But it resides in a small town in northwest Arkansas, a dream-come-true for Alice Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune. Walton began plans for the museum in 2005, when she bought "Kindred Spirits," an Asher B. Durand painting, for $35 million from the New York Public Library.
She has since hired Moshe Safdie, an architect who designed the museum. The collection spans from Colonial times to the present and features Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole and Arthur Dove, among others.