Denver Tourist Attraction – Denver Art Museum
April 7th, 2010 | 
Author: Denver Tourist Attraction – Denver Art Museum
Each art museum is known for specific kinds of exhibits. The Denver Art Museum in Denver Colorado with more than 55000 exhibits across the world is known for Native American art. More than 16000 pieces of Native American art are presented in the museum representing more than 100 Indian tribes in North America. The museum was the first art museum in the country to collect Native American artifacts. There are many Indian exhibits including Northwest Coast woodcarving painted leather garments from the Naskapi twined weaving from the Winnebago weaving done by the Navajo pottery from the Pueblo tribe beadwork from the Plains Indians and basketry from California.
The Denver Art Museum has exhibits concerning many subjects including design and graphics architecture native arts representing Indian art Oceanic art and African art New World including preColumbian and Spanish Colonial European and American paintings and sculptures Textile art and Western art.
The Denver Museum of Art has an Oceanic Art section that has art from all the island groups including 18th and 19th century woodcarvings from Hawaii Samoa and Tonga. The Melanesian collection has masterpieces from New Ireland and Papa New Guinea. There are contemporary works too including drawings paintings and prints.
There are more than 1000 pieces in the African collection in the Denver Museum of Art including exquisite pieces of sculpture jewelry textiles drawings printing and paintings that are all quite rare. There are also woods metals and fibers among other materials. There are paintings and other contemporary expressions including prints and videos. The contemporary work was done by notable living artists. There is even an iPod area that features contemporary African music. In the area you can create rubbings from African designs. Children will love the movie area.
The New World collection features more than 5500 objects including stone ceramic objects gold jade paintings sculpture furniture and silver.
In the Denver Museum of Art there are more than 3000 European and American paintings prints and sculptures through the early 19th century. There are many beautiful Renaissance and 19thcentury French paintings. There are American paintings prints sculptures and drawings from all major time frames of American art before 1945. The museum features the work of include Georgia O’Keefe Botticelli Pissarro Defendente Ferrari Monet Matisse Picasso and other prominent artists.
The Berger collection in the Denver Museum of Art has one of the largest private collections of British art in the world from six centuries including as Thomas Gainsborough and Edward Lear.
These are just some of the many fine collections of art and subject matters featured in the Denver Museum of Art. Those who visit are sure to see many more fine collections and subject matters not discussed here.
About the writer: Mark Traston is an associate with Portrait Painting. A portrait artist will turn your photo into an oil painting. Our artists specializes in a specific area including wedding paintings pet portraits and family portraits.
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