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Denver Landmark – Denver Art Museum

Each museum is known for certain types of exhibits. The Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado, with more than 55 000 exhibits all over the world, is known for Indian art. More than 16,000 pieces of Native American art presented in the museum, 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, the Winnebago twined weaving, weaving of the Navajo, made pottery from the Pueblo tribe, beadwork of the Plains Indians, and basketry from California.

The Denver Art Museum has native exhibits on many subjects, including design and graphics, architecture, art (representatives of Indian art, Oceanic art and African art), New World, including the pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial, European and American paintings and sculpture, textiles and Western art.

The Denver Museum of Art has a section, Oceanic Art, that art has all island groups, including 18 and 19 Century wood carvings from Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga and. The Melanesian collection of masterpieces from New Ireland and Papua New Guinea. There are contemporary works, including drawings, paintings and prints.

There are more than 1,000 Units in the African collection at the Denver Museum of Art, including exquisite sculptures, jewelry, textiles, drawings, prints and paintings, all of which are quite rare. There are also woods, metals and fibers, among other materials. There are pictures and other contemporary expressions, including prints and video. Contemporary Work was done by a remarkable, living artists. There is even an iPod area that contemporary African music features. In the area you can rubbings of African designs. Kids love the movie area.

The New World collection includes more than 5,500 objects, including stone, ceramics, gold, jade, paintings, sculptures, Furniture and silver.

In the Denver Museum of Art has more than 3,000 European and American paintings, prints and sculptures by the beginning of the 19th Century. There are many beautiful Renaissance and the 19th Century French paintings. There are American paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings from all major time frames of American art before 1945. The museum presents works by Georgia O'Keefe, include Botticelli, Pissarro, Defendente Ferrari, Monet, Matisse, Picasso and other famous Artists.

The Berger Collection, Denver Museum of Art, has one of the largest private collections of British art in the world, spanning six centuries, including as Thomas Gainsborough and Edward Lear.

These are just some of the many beautiful collections of art and objects in the Denver Museum of Art presented. Those who attend are sure to many other wonderful collections and topics not discussed here to see.

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