Elevating western American art : developing an institute in the cultural capital of the Rockies /

Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum. Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the museum's Petrie Institute of western American Art, the volume includes thirty essays b...

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Corporate Author: Petrie Institute of Western American Art
Other Authors: Smith, Thomas Brent, Chambers, Marlene
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Denver : Petrie Institute of Western American Art ; [2012]
Series:Western passages.
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Summary:Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum. Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the museum's Petrie Institute of western American Art, the volume includes thirty essays by art historiasn from across the Unives States and Canada on topis in western American art and on more than twenty of the mseum's undisputed masterworks. Special attention is paid, as well, to contemporary works of western American art and to objects that relate to western American art but are displayed an cared for in other museum departments.
Physical Description:320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780914738718 (pbk.)
0914738712
9780914738725 (hardback)
0914738720 (hardback)