Norman Rockwell "Rose the riveter." Photo: Crystal Bridges

Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton’s Bentonville, Arkansas, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art may still be under construction, but that doesn’t mean parts of the collection can’t be admired elsewhere.

The museum has loaned two major examples of illustration art by Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell to the Toledo Museum of Art.

The loans are Parrish’s noctural 1908  The Lantern Bearers and Rockwell’s 1943 Rosie the Riveter.  The works will be on view in Toledo beginning Aug. 17.

Both works are familiar to American painting auction goers.

Parrish’s Lantern Bearers, depicting clowns holding lanterns on a staircase, sold for $4.3 million at Christie’s in New York in 2006. The patriotic Rosie sold for $4.95 million at Sotheby’s in 2002.

Since 2005 Crystal Bridges has loaned 68 works of art to 38 institutions, according to a museum press release. Some 34 works are currently on loan to 15 museums in the US and beyond.

Maxfield Parrish "The Lantern Bearers." Photo: Crystal Bridges