One Year on the Road

Precious angels herald the way.

A classy entrance to the chapel.

Here it is, in all its glory.

Bible stories depicted everywhere.

The main painting shows children arriving in heaven.

Barn on a country road.

Mama and baby mules.

A grim reminder that we&#039;re in the South.

Bust of George Washington Carver.

Carver as a boy, in his favorite spot in the woods.

Diorama of George&#039;s home life with the Carvers.

Later, the Carvers replaced the log home (damaged by tornado) with this one.

A replica of the Jesup Wagon.

The family cemetary, where George&#039;s siblings are buried.

Moses and Susan Carver.

We got gas for $1.98!!

Bentonville, Arkansas.

Another reminder that we&#039;re in the South.

The original Walmart.

And the original soda fountain cafe.

A replica of Sam Walton&#039;s office.

We had lunch next door in The Station Cafe.

Crystal Bridges is also in Bentonville.

Tree sculpture in front of the museum.

Spider sculpture in the courtyard.

The Andy Warhol exhibit.

Warhol bought the stuffed Great Dane in a NYC antique store.

The Dane was inspiration for many paintings.

His cat series.

His Endangered Species series.

Sea Turtle.

Interactive art in the Pink Cow room.

Warhol as a young man.

Warhol as depicted by Jamie Wyeth.

Jamie Wyeth as depicted by Warhol.

Self portrait by Jamie Wyeth.

Photo of Jamie and his father, Andrew Wyeth.

This portrait of Kennedy was used on an Irish stamp.

Jamie painted &quot;Portrait of Shorty&quot; in 1963 in his father&#039;s studio. Shorty was a neighbor.

Wyeth was fascinated by Rudolf Nuryev and did several paintings of him.

Jamie Wyeth&#039;s wife, Phillys, emerging from their lighthouse after a long illness.

This crow painting is about six feet square.

Wyeth&#039;s dog appears in a few paintings.

The exit doors show off one of Wyeth&#039;s paintings.

View from a hallway.

You can see how big the museum is.

There are sculpture&#039;s outside as well.

In the permanent collection, we started with the 18th century room.

I was surprised to see a sculpture of Sappho.

Bear hunters.

This statue was sculpted by a woman.

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&quot;The Lantern Bearers&quot; by Maxfield Parrish, 1908.

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&quot;The Reader&quot; by Mary Cassatt, 1877.

Paintings on palettes.

The Glass Maker.

&quot;After the Flood&quot; by Joseph Paul Vorst, 1940.

&quot;Tobacco Sorters&quot; by Thomas Hart Benton,1942.

&quot;Day Shift&quot; by Francis Criss, 1943.

&quot;Woman&#039;s Head&quot; by Pablo Picasso, 1903.

&quot;Sugar Bowl and Candles&quot; by Diego Rivera,

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&quot;Flying Backbone&quot; by Georgia O&#039;Keefe, 1944.

A giant Pinocchio carved in wood.

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&quot;Rosie the Riveter&quot; by Norman Rockwell.

&quot;The Bathers&quot; by Marisol, 1962,

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Kate contemplating modern art.

&quot;Studio - End of Day&quot; by John Koch, 1961.

&quot;Self Portrait&quot; by Paul Cadmus, 1935.

&quot;Self Portrait&quot; by Oscar Bluemner, 1933.

&quot;Self-Portrait of the Artist&quot; by George Tooker, 1947.

Untitled by Cobi Moules, a transgender artist, 2014.

This man looked depleted by the art museum.

Actually, he was a jolting part of the exhibit.

&quot;Man on Bench&quot; by Duane Hanson, 1977.

He was fascinatingly real.

&quot;Time&quot; by Max Fergeson, 2001.

Fine dining in the museum.

Drive-in movie on Route 66.

We got there just in time.

It starts with the Star Spangled Banner.

Lawn chairs and playpens all set up.

Between movies, kids play under the screen.