Here's something you didn't think you would see. Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart Founder Sam Walton, and head of the family's philanthropic arm, Walton Family Foundation, has donate $800 million to the construction and founding of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
The 217,000 square foot, glass and wood structure seen above was designed by Moshe Safdie. The museum will host a permanent collection of American work ranging from colonial to contemporary era. As of August 2008, the collection was said to $488 million in acquired assets. Based in Bentonville, Arkansas, the collection will include works by Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, along with Charles Wilson Peale's famous portrait of George Washington. The Crystal Bridges will also be home to a very famous naturalist work, Kindered Spirits, by Asher Durand, which Ms. Walton reported purchased from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art for some $35 million.
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