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

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Label

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

Title remainder

developing an institute in the cultural capital of the Rockies

Statement of responsibility

edited by Thomas Brent Smith ; introduction by Marlene Chambers

Creator

• Petrie Institute of Western American Art.

Contributor

• Chambers, Marlene
• Smith, Thomas Brent

Subject

• Art -- Colorado | Denver
• Art, American -- West (U.S.)
• Denver Art Museum
• Petrie Institute of Western American Art
• West (U.S.) -- In art
• Art

Genre

• In art
• Art

Language

eng

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."--book jacket

Member of

• Western passages

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Western passages