Alice Walton, youngest daughter of the Walton family and heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune, has devoted the last ten years of her life to building a collection of American art for a new museum in Bentonville, AK a small town in the northwestern part of the state. The town, which incidentally is also the world headquarters of the Wal-Mart corporation, is hundreds of miles away from the nearest art museum. The new building, designed by Boston architect Moshe Safdie, is going up in earnest and should be open on November 11. Double the size of the Whitney, the first explicitly American art museum to open in fifty years will have an impressive array of works in its starting collection including Gilbert Stuart's Portrait of George Washington, Asher B. Durand's Kindred Spirits, and Japser John's Alphabets. Walton also has prodigious collections of George Bellows, John Singer Sargent, and contemporary artists like Chuck Chose and Roxy Paine.
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Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849
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