Year At A Glance

Van Gogh to Rothko featured 76 artworks by 73 influential artists from the late nineteenth century to the present, including masterpieces by some of the most prominent names in art history, such as Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, and Mark Rothko. The works were selected from the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, one of the finest collections of twentieth-century art in the country, located in Buffalo, NY. This was the first time many of these works had toured in decades.

Crystal Bridges was one of only four venues, besides the Albright-Knox, to host this remarkable exhibition, offering Museum guests a rare opportunity to view paintings and sculptures by some of the most well-known and respected names in the art world.

Warhol’s Nature and Jamie Wyeth

Crystal Bridges presented two concurrent exhibitions that highlighted the artistic friendship between Pop artist Andy Warhol and American realist painter Jamie Wyeth. Together these exhibitions offered a fresh perspective on the lives and works of two of America’s celebrated artists.

Warhol’s Nature, July 4 through October 5, 2015
Warhol’s Nature, curated by Crystal Bridges Curator Chad Alligood from the collection of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, took a close look at an unexplored aspect of Warhol’s work: his lifelong engagement with nature. The exhibition covered every decade of Warhol’s career, from his earliest drawings as a commercial illustrator through his well-known paintings of flowers and portraits of endangered animals.

Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

November 7, 2015, through January 18, 2016

This one-of-a-kind exhibition included more than 100 stunning landscape paintings by artists from across the Western Hemisphere. The exhibition included works by well-known artists from the United States such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Grant Wood, Thomas Cole, and Thomas Hart Benton, as well as masters of the genre from Mexico (Jose Maria Velasco), Canada (Emily Carr), and Brazil (Tarsila do Amaral). Crystal Bridges was the only venue in the United States to host this once-in-a-lifetime assemblage of works from across the Americas. The exhibition was organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.