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Trip to Tulsa

June 15, 2014 Leave a Comment

Road trip! We met in Tulsa, Oklahomah.
Tulsa, city of the Philbrook Museum and its beautiful gardens.

tulsa philbrook
And the Woody Guthrie Center.
tulsa guthrie
The Buffeteria, The place for authentic, Oklahoma chicken fried steak.
tulsa buffeteria
And Crescent, a sweet kitty who sleeps in the middle of the stairs.
tulsa cat
On day 3 we drove to Bentonville, Arkansas, home of Walton’s 5 and 10, the first ever Walmart.
It is also the location of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, spearheaded and funded by Alice Walton, Sam Walton’s daughter and heiress.
tulsa crystal 2
The architect Moshe Safdie has designed stunning buildings that span and surround spring fed ponds.
tulsa cr b view
Inside, you feel as though you are standing under an upturned boat. Beautiful!
tulsa crystal bridges
And Ms Walton has filled the museum with American art.
From Peale’s George Washington.
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To Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘Tobacco Sorters’.
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Mark Rothko.
tulsa cr b rothkoAnd Nick Cave’s ‘Sound Suit’.
Crystal Bridges is the first major American art museum to open since 1974.
tulsa cr b cave

But that’s not all.
Outside there are paths through beautiful gardens.
tulsa cr b garden
Where we found ‘The Way of Color’ by James Turrell, a sculptor of light.
tulsa cr b turrell
You enter the small space through a narrow doorway.
tulsa cr b turrell door
And arrive in a circular space. The round oculus in the ceiling, open to the sky, makes light and shadow shapes on the walls.
Even better? See the moon? That little white spot in the bluest blue of the sky?
Magic.
tulsa cr b turrell inside

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