• We arrived at our hotel in Bentonville. It is guarded by a colony of green penguins.

• The 21c Museum Hotel is an art museum in its own right.

• 21c Museum Hotel

• 21c Museum Hotel

• 21c Museum Hotel

• 'Making Change', Monica Mahoney - 2015 - A 1962 Fleetwood Cadillac limousine covered in thousands of pennies, nickels, and dimes

• 'In Tran/sit', Yoan Capote - 2002

• The penguins moved about, seemingly at will. This one found its way into our room and became friends with our dog.

• We arrived a day before the start of the tour, rented a car, and drove to Eureka Springs for sightseeing.

• Thorncrown Chapel is located about 1.5 miles west of Eureka Springs, Arkansas

• Thorncrown Chapel, E. Fay Jones, Architect - 1980

• Fay Jones was an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright and designed many buildings in the Southern Midwest.

• The community hall at Thorncrown Chapel

• The town of Eureka Springs is so named for the curative nature of the natural springs found there.

• Rowdy Beaver Den & Store - A watering hole in Eureka Springs

• The Rowdy Beaver caters to bored husbands.

• The Crescent Hotel, built in 1886, sits on a hill overlooking the town and countryside. It is a Eureka Springs landmark.

• A view from the terrace on an upper floor of the Crescent Hotel

• Back in Bentonville, we explored the grounds of the Crystal Bridges Museum and Compton Gardens, both a short walk from our hotel. The tortoise is part of 'Tortoise and Hare', Nancy Schön - 2009

• 'Tortoise and Hare', Nancy Schön - 2009 -The hare is located across the path from the tortoise.

• 'Shore Lunch', Dan Ostermiller - 1999

• 'Redstick', Deborah Butterfield - 2007

• 'Vaquero', Luis Alfonzo Jimenez - modeled 1980, cast 1987-1988

• 'Three People on Four Benches', George Segal - 1979

• 'Love', Robert Indiana - 1966-1999

• Quartz Crystals

• 'The Way of Color' is a skyspace designed by James Turrell - 1999

• 'The Way of Color', James Turrell - 1999

• The oculus of 'The Way of Color' from the inside, during daylight

• The first of a sequence of photos from inside the skyspace, prior to and during sunrise on October 3, 2018.

• The Neil Compton home and now Conference Center

• The town square in the center of Bentonville

• The Walmart museum and the original 'Walmart'

• 'Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel', E. Fay Jones, Architect - 1988 - Bella Vista, Arkansas

• The Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel office building

• Looking at a model of Wright's Bachman-Wilson House

• Now located on the grounds of the Crystal Bridges Museum, Wright's Bachman-Wilson House was moved from a site on the Millstone River in New Jersey, where it had been flooded multiple times.

• This Welcome Pavillion was designed and built by students at the University of Arkansas's Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

• Bachman-Wilson House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect - 1954

• An early sketch of Crystal Bridges by Architect Moshe Safdie

• Safdie integrated the buildings into the water, rather than place them on the hills above looking down on the water.

• Western red cedar banding alternates with concrete on both the exterior and interior walls.

• 'Two-Headed Figure', Keith Haring - 1986

• 'Maman', Louise Bourgeois - 1999

• 'Maman', Louise Bourgeois - 1999

• 'Maman', Louise Bourgeois - 1999

• 'Maman', Louise Bourgeois - 1999

• 'Eleven', the restaurant at Crystal Bridges

• 'Hanging Heart (Gold/Magenta)', Jeff Koons - 1994-2006

• 'Azure Icicle Chandelier', Dale Chihuly - 2016

• In 2017, this elevator and pedestrian bridge were added to the north side of the museum to improve access to the trail system on the museum grounds.

• 'Fly's Eye Dome', R. Buckminster Fuller - 1961, fabricated ca. 1980

• 'Lowell's Ocean', Mark di Suvero - 2005-2008

• 'Big Red Lens' Frederick Eversley - 1985

• 'No. 210/No. 211 (Orange)' Mark Rothko - 1960

• 'Seven Types of Ambiguity', Helen Frankenthaler - 1957

• 'Night Zag Wall' Louise Nevelson - 1969-1974

• 'Rosie the Riveter', Norman Rockwell - 1943 - Rockwell based the pose of Rosie on Michelangelo's painting of the prophet Isaiah on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

• 'George Washington', Charles Willson Peale - ca. 1780-1782

• 'George Washington (The Constable-Hamilton Portrait)', Gilbert Stuart - 1797

• Edward Sheriff Curtis, b.1868 - d.1952

• Will Wilson, citizen of the Navajo Nation, trans-customary Diné artist, Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange, Denver Art Museum', Will Wilson (b. 1969) - 2013

• 'Nakotah LaRance, Citizen of the Hopi Nation, 6-Time World Champion Hoop Dancer, Member, Dancing Earth, Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations, Critical Indigenous Exchange Project, Santa Fe Art Institute', Will Wilson - 2012

• 'Arikara Chief', Edward Sheriff Curtis - 1908 Photogravure

• 'Michelle Cook, Citizen of the Navajo Nation, UNM Law student, Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology', Will Wilson - 2013

• 'Wife of Mnainak - Yakima', Edward Sheriff Curtis - 1910 Photogravure

• Leaving Crystal Bridges

• 'Yield', Roxy Paine - 2011