In this Issue Meet Donors Christine Ekman & Joe Zell Christine Ekman and Joe Zell have been longtime patrons of arts and culture in Denver, including Kirkland Museum. This year, they deepened their investment. We caught up with them to talk about why they support the Museum and how the salon style display impacts their view of art. “The salon
In this Issue Meet Exhibiting Artist Dave Yῡst Chromaxiologic · Inclusion w/ 6 catenary curves and 1 free hand tangent curve #3/16, 2016, by Dave Yῡst, acrylic on canvas on 27-piece elliptically-shaped Baltic birch plywood and laminated wood frame, 40 1/2 x 63 1/8 inches. Artist and educator Dave Yῡst has always been drawn to organic, curved shapes over a traditional,
In this Issue Meet Art Collector Barbara Singer When Barbara Singer had a travel agency downtown, she would visit the nearby galleries, and became transfixed by a piece by Vance Kirkland. She eventually purchased The Mystery of Explosions on the Sun 5 Billion Years B.C. in 1979. She has loaned the piece to Kirkland Museum for our first special exhibition
In this Issue Meet Ceramic Artist, Jutta Golas Jutta Golas has created ceramics of all shapes and sizes over her 45 years as an artist, starting with pottery and moving to wall installations and freeform sculpture. Kirkland Museum has five of Jutta’s pieces in our collection, including the ceramic sculpture Dialogue, on view in Kirkland Museum’s Colorado Ceramics Corridor. We
In this Issue Over 50 New Works Now on View! Prairie Monuments, 1954, by Vance Kirkland (1904-1981; American), oil on linen, 36 x 48 in. Founding Director & Curator Hugh Grant continues to enhance and refine Kirkland Museum’s collection through new acquisitions and showcasing pieces not previously on view or not viewed for years. We cannot wait to show you
In this Issue Kirkland Stories: Martin Filler Martin Filler is a prolific architecture critic, historian and collector. He, along with his wife Rosemarie Haag Bletter, gifted Kirkland Museum a generous donation of Aesthetic and Christopher Dresser objects, some of which were featured in our Truth, Beauty and Power: Christopher Dresser and The Aesthetic Movement exhibition in 2021 and now on