after our first true vacation ever, i wanted to post about my trip to the denver art museum but i never got around to it. a couple of days ago i found photos of some of the artwork i liked so i thought...better late than never. first of all, having lived a stone's throw from the art institute of chicago museum, it is difficult for me to be impressed by the overall collection of museums in other cities. surprisingly, for being so small, portland's museum is pretty great. denver is a million people or so bigger, so my expectations were also bigger, and i have to say...they weren't met.
i was mostly disappointed just because i was craving a great european collection (having just finished three books about french artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries). after reading the private lives of impressionists, there were only three paintings from the book. autumn poplars by camille pissarro, and claude monet's the water lily pond and waterloo bridge. of course i enjoyed the modern art department and most of all (i was ~*pleasantly~ surprised*) the robust western american art (which i thought would be a snooze fest....pioneers, indians, the grand canyon? snoooore.) in fact, the artwork that i enjoyed the most was in this collection.
at the time i didn’t realize that i could take photos inside the museum, so i used my little pad of paper and took notes. i thought i would look them all up on the internet later, but what do you know? i’m having a hard time finding them. so far, these are a few of my favorites that i was able to find photos of on the web (sources noted):
deborah oropallo "cowgirl" 2007 pigment print on paper (photo above) -artnet
keith jacobshagen “by june the light begins to breathe,” 1999-2000; oil - dam
karen e. kitchell “american grasslands: prairie, pasture, crop and lawn,” 1996-1998; oil on wood – miss marrisa lynn on flickr
gustave baumann’s woodcuts, including above, “summer clouds,” 1956; woodcut in colors -miss marrisa lynn on flickr
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