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Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

About Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Alejo Benedetti is assistant curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Alma Thomas, Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 127 x 121.9 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville) — Thomas takes inspiration from both the 1969 moon landing and her backyard garden

Alma Thomas, Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers

by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Alma Thomas, Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 127 x 121.9 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville) — Thomas takes inspiration from both the 1969 moon landing and her backyard garden

Alma Thomas, Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers

by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Kerry James Marshall, Our Town (Crystal Bridges) — The American Dream is not what it seems in this artwork that combines painting and collage

Kerry James Marshall, Our Town

by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

The river's brilliant reflections gave shape to this enormous sculpture in silver

Mapping nature’s stunning beauty

by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Maya Lin SilverUWRGrid — The river's brilliant reflections gave shape to this enormous sculpture of silver

Maya Lin’s Silver Upper White River

by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola [3], 1962, casein on canvas, 176.2 x 137.2 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts) — Warhol’s art celebrates the consumerism and advertising that inundated American culture in the 1960s.

Consumers, Warhol, and 1960s America

by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola [3] (detail), 1962, casein on canvas, 176.2 x 137.2 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts) — With this canvas, Coca-Cola [3], Warhol becomes Warhol.

Warhol, Coca-Cola [3]

by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker