Ingrid 1960s Picnic Kit

Anita and I were out hitting all of the local (and not-so-local) antique malls when I came across this cool item. It's a 1960s picnic kit, completely new and never used.

There are 4 trays, red, green, yellow and orange, that are all held together as one with a rubber strap on each end.

Each try has 3 food compartments plus another for holding the utensils.

The utensils were all included, in their original packaging, along with salt and pepper packets!

The only tray that had a little damage was the yellow one, but it's perfectly usable. I'll be using this kit the next time we head to the local park for a lunch picnic.

I think this goes well with the 1960s BarBee-Q indoor grill I found recently!

Crystal Bridges Museum - Part 3

This is my last post on the Crystal Bridges Museum. My first two posts showed some of the fantastic art being exhibited. You can find those posts here and here.

This post shows the beautiful architecture of the museum itself. It's a really awesome place.

A model of the museum buildings:

The ceiling over the cafe:

The museum store has art reproductions, toys and lots of other cool things:

View down the hall to the temporary exhibition:

View back to the cafe:

The cafe. The food was quite good and service was fast and courteous. In fact, every employee we encountered at the museum was very pleasant.

Crystal Bridges Museum - Part 2

This is my second post on the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. You can find my first post here, along with a brief introduction to the museum.

Joseph Stella's Red Flower, 1929:

George Tooker's Ward, 1971:

Tom Wesselmann's Smoker #9, 1973:

Louise Nevelson's Night Zag Wall, 1969-1974:

Lynda Benglis' Eat Meat, 1969, 1975:

Kara Walker, A Warm Summer Evening in 1863, 2008:

Neil G. Welliver's Snow on Alden Brook, 1983:

George Dombek's A Few Water Drops, 2008:

One of two paintings from Andrew Wyth:

Alfonso A. Ossorio's Dream, 1947:

Edward Hopper's Roofs of the Cobb Barn, 1931:

Charles Bird King's Wai-Kee Chee, Sanky Chief, Crouching Eagle, 1824, and Otto Half Chief, Husband of Eagle of Delight, 1822:

Karl Bodmer's Massika, Saki Indian, Wakusasse, Musquake Indian, 1832-1834:

Wayne Thiebaud's Supine Woman, 1963:

Gene Davis' Black Balloon, 1964:

Stuart Davis' Breakfast Table, 1917:

Oscar Bluemner's Motive of Space and Form - A New Jersey Village, 1915:

Jacques Lipchitz's Marsden Harley Sleeping, 1942:

Jim Dine's Walking to Boras, 2006:

Alexander Calder's Trois noirs sur un Rouge, 1968:

Joan Mitchell, untitled, 1952-1953:

Jasper John's Alphabets, 1960-1962:

Andy Warhol's Dolly Parton, 1985:

Marisol's Portrait of Martha Graham, 1977:

Amazing... looks like a photograph, doesn't it? Rudolph Stingel, untitled, 2006: