The NORMAN ROCKWELL exhibition was there last year. Well worth it even though I had to buy a ticket and wait in line.
The original ROSIE THE RIVETER is on permanent display there.
The food in the court is also good.
Another southern art museum. . .
The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art displays approximately 1000 works of fine and decorative arts. The collection was amassed by Jack Warner, over several decades, as investments for Gulf States Paper, now the Westervelt Company.
Considered to be one of the greatest private collections of American Art, it is truly a treasure within the community.
Featuring such artists as:
John Singer Sargent; George Luks; Edward Potthast; Andrew Wyeth; Jamie Wyeth; Edward Hicks; Thomas Moran; Albert Bierstadt; Basil Ede; Duncan Phyfe and Charles Lannieur.
I love the museum and the grounds, but to be frank it all worries me. Between it and the relocation of the apparel dept from NYC I fear a Marxist/postmodern/Pagan/homosexualist tide slowly rising in the area. I moved here a mere 4 years ago from seedy Atlanta, recently having joined the Catholic Church after decades lost to sin and confusion, and felt like I’d been transplanted to Heaven. It was a marvel to meet so many loving Christian friends, know that my kids were reasonably safe from cultural corruption, and even not have to worry about being car jacked in the mall parking lot! I mean the area is truly saturated by the Gospel, at least compared to everywhere else I’ve lived. But having come from the “art crowd” (I was a drawing and painting/graphic design major in college and then worked in the museum industry) I know all too well how subversion and indoctrination drive the industry and the culture. I have heard that Central in Bentonville is a gay area already and fear that they’re just waiting to achieve critical mass before the rainbow flags go up and various “tolerance” programs are introduced to the schools. My friends all think the museum is a wonderful blessing but I just want to jump up and down and waive my hands around shouting “WATCH OUT!!!” This museum could be the perfect Trojan horse to infect one of the last holdouts of real America. LOL, I was suspicious of the recent Georgia O’Keefe exhibit. Praying that I am wrong. Would love to get a job there eventually...keep an eye on things from the inside, heh heh.