Walton Family Foundation Donates $800 Million to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

The first time many of us had heard about the under-construction Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art was its involvement in the controversy over Fisk University trying to sell off their large collection of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings to the new museum. After that situation was cumbersomely hammered out, Crystal Bridges was perhaps more on the radar, what with its massive Moshe Safdie-designed complex and that Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was behind it all.