The Denver Art Museum adds to its exciting exhibition lineup this month when George Carlson: Heart of the West opens December 15 in the Hamilton Building’s Dietler Western Art Galleries.
The exhibition will feature the work of living artist and former Coloradoan George Carlson, considered one of the finest sculptors of western subject matter working today. Carlson is known for his sensitive interpretation of animals, especially horses, in bronze.
His figurative work features a number of subjects including the Tarahumara Indian tribe in Mexico, with whom he lived. Several pastel drawings from his journeys to Mexico will also be displayed. The exhibition will feature more than 35 objects from several lenders including the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, works owned by a private Colorado collector, and the artist’s studio. The exhibition will be on view through April 13, 2008. The Museum also continues to host Artisans & Kings: Selected Treasures from the Louvre and Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975 throughout December.
George Carlson’s work is highlighted in the latest issue of Western Passages, published by the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum. “Heart of the West: New Painting and Sculpture of the American West” includes essays on George Carlson, collecting Western American art, the Museum’s Contemporary Realism Group, artist-explorers and the Western landscape, and full color illustrations. This fourth edition of Western Passages is available in the Museum Shop, $22.50.
This holiday season, the Denver Art Museum is the place for families to play. Your family can enjoy Great Games Weeks at the Museum from December 22 through January 6. Hours for these special activities are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. During Great Games Weeks the museum will be full of games and puzzles to challenge the entire family. Play your way around the globe and through our galleries with games like Mancala, a West African counting game, Western Bingo Showdown and more! Whether you’ve got an hour or the whole day, you’ll find plenty to do, see, make and play! Plus, join us as we debut a brand new mobile family activity and take advantage of the chance to learn about tortoises and gently touch a real tortoise sculpture! Admission to the Museum and activities are free for Colorado kids under 18 during Great Games Weeks. Great Games Weeks are sponsored by Target.
Curator receives a well-urned honor. The Museum is pleased to announce the acquisition of a glazed earthenware urn titled Japanese Lady by renowned ceramicist and former Coloradoan Betty Woodman. This acquisition was made in honor of Craig Miller, long-time curator of architecture, design and graphics, who recently left the Denver Art Museum. The Museum’s own Volunteer Council, under the guidance of president Jo Ann Schwartz, has fully funded the acquisition.
The urn was one of several created by Woodman for her retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006. The Woodman work, which will be on permanent display, will hold arrangements specially created by the Museum’s Flower Council. The exact location has yet to be selected, but the urn will likely go on view in the early part of 2008. -- www.denverartmuseum.org
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