The Denver Art Museum is an art museum in Denver, Colorado located in Denver's Civic Center. It is known for its collection of American Indian art, and has a comprehensive collection of works from across the world with a total of more than 55,000 pieces. An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art, and usually primarily paintings and sculpture. ... Nickname: The Mile-High City Location of Denver in Colorado, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Colorado City-County Denver (coextensive) Founded November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area    - City 401. ... Civic Center from the Colorado State Capitol. ... An Aani (Atsina) named Assiniboin Boy. ...

History of the Museum

Main Building, East Side

Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Under Construction

Hamilton Building, Nearing Completion

• 1893 Founded as the Denver Artists Club.
• 1916 Renamed the Denver Art Association.
• 1932 Moved into first galleries in City and County building and became Denver Art Museum
• 1954 Moved into first purpose-built building in current location
• 1971 The current building, designed by Gio Ponti and local architect James Sudler (D. 1982), is completed. A 28-sided, 7 story construction, the exterior of the building is clad in gray tiles designed specially for the building by Dow Corning. The building is adjacent to the Denver Public Library, designed by Burnham Hoyt (1955) and Michael Graves (1996).
• 2006 The expected completion and opening date of a major expansion, the Frederic C. Hamilton building, designed by Daniel Libeskind. Currently completing construction and opening to the public October 7, 2006, the new building is clad in titanium and glass.

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Collections

The museum has eight curatorial departments: architecture, design & graphics; Asian art; modern and contemporary; native arts (American Indian, Oceanic, and African); New World (pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial); painting & sculpture (European and American); Western art; and textile art.

Architecture, Design & Graphics

Formed in 1990, the department opened its first permanent galleries in 1993. Changing exhibitions drawn from its collection of fine and decorative arts are displayed on the sixth floor, featuring pre-1900 European and American decorative arts. The 20th-century design galleries on the second floor are currently closed, due to the impact of the construction of the Hamilton Building.

Asian Art

The museum's Asian art collection, the only such resource in the Rocky Mountain region, includes four main galleries devoted to the arts of India, China, Japan and Southwest Asia. Additional galleries offer works from Tibet, Nepal and Southeast Asia, while thematic galleries display religious art and traditional folk crafts.

Modern and Contemporary

The modern and contemporary collection of 20th-century art contains over 4,500 works with an emphasis on both internationally known and emerging artists. The department also includes the Herbert Bayer collection and archive, an important Bauhaus artistic and scholarly resource, containing some 2,500 items including works by artists such as Andy Warhol and David Hockney Herbert Bayer (1900-1985) was an Austrian graphic designer, painter, photographer, and architect. ... Reconstructed main building of the Bauhaus Dessau (2003). ... Andy Warhol, photographed by Helmut Newton. ... We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961. ...

Linda

One of the museum's most popular and frequently asked-about pieces is part of the modern and contemporary collection. Linda, by Denver artist John DeAndrea, is a life-size realistic sculpture of a sleeping woman. Made of polyvinyl, this piece is sunlight-sensitive and is therefore shown only for short periods of time. The museum also owns another piece by the same artist, Clothed Artist and Model (1976). This article refers to the state capital of Colorado. ... Polyvinyl is a record label based out of Champaign, Illinois. ...

• John DeAndrea, Artist
• A short interview with the model, Linda Keller

Native Arts

Native American

The museum has an internationally-known collection of American Indian art, with over 16,000 works representing over 100 tribes across North America. The Denver Art Museum was one of the first museums to use aesthetic quality as the criteria to develop such a collection, and the first art museum in this country to collect American Indian arts. The museum is important in the fact that it exhibits these items as art, rather than anthropological artifacts. The range of Native American art styles is reflected in such diverse objects as Northwest Coast woodcarving, Naskapi painted leather garments, Winnebago twined weaving, Plains Indian beadwork, Navajo weaving, Pueblo pottery, and California basketry. Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος = human) consists of the study of humankind (see genus Homo). ... I archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor. ...

Oceanic

This collection is not currently on display, until the opening of the Frederic C. Hamilton Building in fall 2006.

African

This collection is not currently on display, until the opening of the Frederic C. Hamilton Building in fall 2006.

New World (pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial)

Among the 5,000-plus objects from these collections displayed in The Jan and Frederick Mayer Galleries of Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art are pre-Columbian works of ceramic, stone, gold and jade, as well as paintings, sculpture, furniture and silver from the Spanish Colonial Period. The Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art is considered to be one of the most significant in North America. Internationally, there is no other museum where one can see examples of the major stylistic movements from all the geographic areas and cultures of Latin America.

Pre-Columbian

The museum's pre-Columbian collection represents nearly every major culture in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America, with particular strengths in Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Maya ceramics. Its greatest strength, however, is in the arts of Central America. Through an innovative study gallery design, 100% of the museum's pre-Columbian collection is on display. The collection includes works in ceramic, stone, gold and jade.

Spanish Colonial

The Spanish Colonial collection of paintings, silver, santos, and other art objects covers the broad geographic areas of Latin America, with the art of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, and the Southwestern United States represented.

Painting & Sculpture (European & American)

The over 3,000 objects in this department is composed of American and European painting, sculpture, and prints through the early 20th century. The European collection is richest in Renaissance and 19th-century French paintings. The American collection consists of paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings representing all major periods in American art before 1945. Artists represented include Monet, Matisse, Picasso, and Georgia O'Keefe. Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926), French impressionist painter. ... Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906). ... A young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. ... Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950 Georgia OKeeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. ...

The Berger Collection

Works are also on view from The Berger Collection, one of the largest private individual collections of British Art in the world, with more than 150 pieces by British artists such as Thomas Gainsborough, Edward Lear and other artists of the English School that covers a period of 6 centuries. Self-portrait, painted 1759 Blue boy, painted 1770 This article is about the artist Thomas Gainsborough. ... Edward Lear, 1812-1888 Eagle Owl, Edward Lear, 1837 Another Edward Lear owl, in his more familiar style Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an artist, illustrator and writer known for his nonsensical poetry and his limericks, a form which he popularised. ... The English school of painting is an expression for English (or British) painters who produced characteristically English paintings. ...

Textile Art

The collection ranges from Coptic and pre-Columbian textiles to contemporary works of art in fiber, overlapping culturally and chronologically with all but the Native Arts Department. A nationally-recognized collection of American quilts and coverlets, the Julia Wolf Glasser Collection of samplers, and the Charlotte Hill Grant Collection of Chinese Court Costumes are among the strengths of the department.

Western

The Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum was established in 2001. Also that year, the collection was augmented by the Harmsen Foundation's donation of over 700 paintings. The Harmsen Collection joined a collection already rich in 19th-century photographs of the West and with such masterworks as Charles Marion Russell's In the Enemy's Country, Frederic Remington's The Cheyenne, and Charles Deas' Long Jakes.

The Harmsen Collection

The Harmsen Collection contains works by artists and photographers who charted the colonization of the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Frederick Remington, Charles M Russell, Frank E. Schoonover, and Frank Tenney Johnson as well as more modern interpreters of American & Western art, such as Gerald Curtis Delano, Harvey Dunn and Ross Stefan. The Hunters Supper, 1909, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 - December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, and sculptor who specialized in depictions of the American West. ... Charlie Russell in his youth Charles Marion Russell (b. ... Frank Schoonover (1877 - 1972) was an American illustrator. ... Frank Tenney Johnson (b. ... Gerald Curtis Delano (b. ... Harvey T. Dunn (1884 - 1952) was a famous painter from Manchester, South Dakota. ...

Selected Past Exhibitions

• 1999 Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums, which received 215,000 visits.
• 2000 Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art which received 155,000 visits.
• 2001 European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
• 2002 The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore
• 2002 Metamorphosis: Modernist Photographs by Herbert Bayer and Man Ray
• 2002 US Design 1975-2000
• 2002 Art & Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt
• 2003 Antarctica: Through the Eyes of Those Who Live It
• 2003 Bonnard
• 2003 Sargent And Italy
• 2003 El Greco to Picasso from The Phillips Collection, which received 191,000 visits
• 2003 RETROSPECTACLE: 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art
• 2004 Frederic Remington: The Color of Night
• 2004 Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821
• 2004 Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca
• 2005 Heaven and Home: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection
• 2005 Amish Quilts: Kaleidoscope of Color from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown
• 2005 Blanket Statements, an exhibition of Navajo Weavers
• 2005 New Classics, contemporary pieces from the Museum’s American Indian collection, by a variety of artists like Dan Namingha, Emmi Whitehorse, Mateo Romero and Kevin Red Star.

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Education

The museum’s Education Department has taken a leading role both nationally and internationally in three areas: research in making museum visits successful and enjoyable, the creation of innovative installed learning materials (e.g., audio tours, labeling, video and reading areas, response journals, and hands-on and art-making areas), and interactive learning for young people both in school and family groups. Family-friendly programs such as the Just for Fun Family Center, Eye Spy gallery games, the Discovery Library, Kids Corner, and Family Backpacks have been both popular and successful. In particular, the Family Backpack program has been adopted and adapted by other institutions, ranging from the Victoria and Albert Museum to the Henry Ford Museum.

Funding

The museum is run by a non-profit organization separate from the City of Denver. Major funding for the museum is provided by a 0.1% sales tax levied in the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), which includes seven Colorado counties in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area. About 60% of this tax is used to provide funding for the Denver Art Museum and three other major science and cultural facilities in Denver (the Denver Botanic Gardens, the Denver Zoo, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science). In addition, the museum receives large private donations and loans from private collections. Over the past five years, the Denver Art Museum has averaged 465,000 visitors a year. Total revenues for the Museum in 2003 were $23 million. A nonprofit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... The Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) is Colorado’s unique commitment to its arts, cultural and scientific institutions through a special tax district. ... The metropolitan area centered on the city of Denver, Colorado is known officially by the United States Census Bureau as the Denver metropolitan area (population 2,179,240 in 2000). ... The Denver Botanic Gardens 23 acres (9. ... The Predator Ridge exhibit displays a panoramic view representing the African savanna. ... Denver Museum of Nature and Science The Denver Museum Of Nature and Science (DMNS) is the main natural history museum in Denver, Colorado. ...

Construction Photos

• The Denver Art Museum
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External links

• Denver Art Museum
• The Berger Collection
• Gio Ponti, Architect
• Daniel Libeskind, Architect
• Art Moves Into New Home At The Denver Art Museum Addition, KCNC-TV report
• VRML and Google Earth models of the structural steel for the expansion (At the top of the page click on 'CIS/2 models in Google Earth' in the What's New section and then scroll down a bit to get to the correct Google Earth link.)
• 'New Yorker' magazine review[1]

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