Art Gallery News & Art Exhibit Announcements

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Spring 2007 Craft Fairs

The internationally known spring craft fairs of northwest Arkansas are set for the first weekend of May 2007. Weavers, woodworkers, carvers, basket makers, artisans in stained glass, pewter, leather and scores of other arts and crafts, including oil and acrylic painting, watercolor, sculpture, metal working, and photography can be found. For a list of local craft fairs, search the May calendar on www.Arkansas.com.

Crystal Bridges Museum Tries to Buy 1875 Painting

Nov. 10, 2006 - The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville and the National Gallery of Art in Washington made a joint offer of $68 million to purchase The Gross Clinic, an 1875 painting detailing late 19th century surgery techniques, from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. If the sale goes through, it will be the most expensive painting added to the museum's collection since Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice L. Walton announced plans for the museum in May 2005. Painted by Thomas Eakins, the 8-foot-by-7-foot painting shows a doctor and his students operating on a boy's leg, while his mother covers her face with her hands.