A Day at the Denver Art Museum

It is hard to believe that school in our part of Colorado has already been in session for one week! A few days before the new school year we brought our oldest granddaughter to the Denver Art Museum for the day.  She was very excited, as you can see by her big smile.

The Denver Art Museum is located in an area of Denver's "Golden Triangle." Within the boundaries of the Golden Triangle, you can find Civic Center Park, the City and County of Denver offices, the Colorado State Capitol, History Colorado, the Denver Art Museum, the U.S. Mint Museum, the Clyfford Still Museum, and the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art and the Denver Public Library.

The Denver Art Museum has exhibitions and collections of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and the world, as well as special exhibits.

 I was excited to see the special Georgia O'Keeffe Photographer exhibit that runs 

through November 6, 2022

Information from the exhibit website:

"Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer brings a trove of newly identified photographs by the groundbreaking artist to Colorado in summer 2022 in an exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) with the collaboration of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe. The presentation reveals a new aspect of the modernist artist’s career through nearly 100 photographs, as well as several paintings, drawings, and related ephemera."

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I think many are familiar with her macro-style flower paintings and it was interesting to see her photos that were her inspiration.

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Her photo of her New Mexico studio door

O'Keeffe's painting of her patio and door with a cloud-filled sky above.

Some other paintings by O'Keeffe are part of the exhibit.

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We were amazed to see the "Age of Armor" special exhibit which runs until September 5, 2022.  It is an immersive exhibition featuring more than 100 objects highlighting the artistry, function, and societal perceptions of armor shaped throughout time, from the Higgins Collection at the Worcester Art Museum of Massachusetts.

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This two-handed sword was impressive!

Some beautiful glass was made in the Czech Republic, where glassmaking is a 1,000-year-old tradition.

An art museum visit would not be complete without looking at the Impressionists--just a small portion we saw are in the collage above.

There is also Outdoor Art outside the museum as well as an interactive garden. 

The thirty-five-foot tall "Big Sweep" sculpture is by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen and is located on Martin Plaza outside the Hamilton building.  

I was happy to see the horse sculptures made by Deborah Butterfield which were part of an exhibit I saw years ago at the Denver Botanic Garden called "The Nature of Horses--click here--to see them in that blog post.

Denver Art Museum is one of the largest art museums between Chicago and the West Coast with global art collections that represent cultures around the world as well as work by artists from Denver and the Rocky Mountain region. Internationally known for its holdings of American Indian art, the museum has also assembled an extensive group of pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial art objects now considered one of the finest collections in the world.   To see some of these exhibits in past blogs click here and here.

 

We only saw a small portion of the exhibits on this visit and we will return many times in the future to see more.  

Our granddaughter was especially excited to see that there were many Creativity Areas in the museum where she could create her own artwork! There were many art supplies available and after seeing so much artwork and sculptures our creative juice was flowing and we both made drawings.  

She enjoyed the interactive poetry wall in one room and on the whiteboard that asked the question "Why do we need creativity?"  she wrote "Creativity Shows Passion," which I think sums up our day at the museum perfectly!

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