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Billionaire shapes an art museum for the heartland

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The era of the world-class museum built by a single philanthropist in the tradition of Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Pierpont Morgan Jr. and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney may seem to have passed, but Alice Walton is bringing it back.

Yet her mission is unlike those of her predecessors, or of more recent art patrons such as Ronald Lauder and his Neue Galerie. They set out to put great works on display in cultural capitals such as New York and Boston. Instead, Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art — the first major institution in 50 years dedicated to the vast spectrum of American art, to be housed in a building more than twice the size of the current Whitney Museum of American Art — seeks to bring high art to Middle America in Bentonville, a town of 35,000 that is best known as the home of Wal-Mart.

Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, has worked on the museum for nearly a decade but has said little about it in public until now. In a recent interview at Town Branch, her family home, she said she wanted to turn Bentonville into an international destination for art lovers when the museum opens Nov. 11.

At the moment the most significant nearby cultural attractions are two hours away: a museum of Western and American Indian art in Tulsa, Okla., and, in the other direction, the country-music magnet of Branson, Mo.

"For years I've been thinking about what we could do as a family that could really make a difference in this part of the world," said Walton, 61. "I thought this is something we desperately need, and what a difference it would have made were it here when I was growing up."

The 201,000-square-foot museum was designed by the Boston architect Moshe Safdie for a site around two ponds on 120 acres of former Walton family land. Named for the nearby Crystal Spring, the museum will display top-flight works by American masters from the Colonial era to the present, with the largest concentrations coming from the 19th and 20th centuries. Although the collection — about 600 paintings and sculptures — is small by the standards of big museums, it is growing at a steady clip.

"She has not just been concentrating on what could be perceived as the greatest hits in American art," said John Wilmerding, an art historian and professor at Princeton University, who has been advising Walton for seven years and is on the Crystal Bridges board. "She has collected the work of some of these artists in depth," quietly amassing substantial bodies of work by figures such as Martin Johnson Heade, Stuart Davis, George Bellows and John Singer Sargent.

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