{"id":1823067,"date":"2026-03-12T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1823067"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:00:28","slug":"denver-art-museum-reveals-2025-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1823067","title":{"rendered":"Denver Art Museum Reveals 2025 Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dixon_cloud_world_1925_copy_720.jpg?w=720&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"a-content a-content--offset lrv-a-floated-parent lrv-u-font-family-body lrv-u-line-height-normal lrv-u-font-size-18 lrv-u-position-relative\">\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Denver Art Museum in Colorado announced this week that it acquired more than 750 works across all 11 of its curatorial departments in roughly the last year, with an emphasis on further diversifying its collection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMade between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025, the acquisitions included Tishan Hsu\u2019s <em>mammal-screen-green-1<\/em> (2024) and Jackie Am\u00e9zquita\u2019s <em>el SUDOR de mi GENTE<\/em> (2023), as well as works artists who had solo exhibitions at the museum in 2025 such as Dawoud Bey and Kent Monkman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t The museum also acquired two important historical pieces by women: Berthe Morisot\u2019s painting <em>La Le\u00e7on au jardin<\/em> (The Lesson in the Garden), from 1886, which was already on view but was only formally accessioned in 2025, and a rare version of Camille Claudel\u2019s sculpture <em>R\u00eave au coin du feu<\/em> (Fireside Dream), which was conceived 1899 between 1905.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMeanwhile, the museum expanded its photography collection by 133 works, among them seven 20-by-24-inch Polaroid photographs by modernist photographer and theoretician Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes, and its architecture and design department added 35 new objects, including two contemporary furniture pieces by women that incorporate abstracted cultural symbols into their design: a 2023 chair by Monica Curiel that echoes the shapes of Mexican mariachi string instruments, and a screen by Kim Mupangila\u00ef from the same year that references Central African currency tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOther notable acquisitions included a 1969 painting by Venezuelan-born Op artist Jes\u00fas Rafael Soto for the museum\u2019s Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art department; a ca. 1975\u20131980 bamboo tray, one of 28 pieces of bamboo art gifted to the museum, by Japanese master Iizuka Sh\u014dkansai for its Arts of Asia collection; and a 1925 painting by western landscape artist Maynard Dixon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBelow, a look at seven newly acquired works by the Denver Art Museum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"pmc-gallery-vertical\">\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-loader u-gallery-app-shell-loader\">\n<ul class=\"pmc-fallback-list-items lrv-a-unstyle-list lrv-u-margin-t-2\">\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<article class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item\">\n<h2>Mori Tetsuzan, <em>Tigers in <\/em><em>Landscape and Birds<\/em>, late 1700s\u2013mid-1800s<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tetsuzan_Tigers-in-Landscape-and-Birds_late-1700s-mid-1800s-copy.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Mori Tetsuzan, Tigers in Landscape and Birds, late 1700s\u2013mid 1800s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tetsuzan_Tigers-in-Landscape-and-Birds_late-1700s-mid-1800s-copy.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Mori Tetsuzan, Tigers in Landscape and Birds, late 1700s\u2013mid 1800s\"><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum.\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMori Tetsuzan (1775-1841) was born in Osaka and adopted by his uncle Mori Sosen, a famed painter of animals, to continue Sosen\u2019s artistic lineage. Likely at his uncle\u2019s urging, Mori later studied with Maruyama \u014ckyo, founder of the naturalistic school that bears his name; appointed as an official painter for the Kumamoto domain, Mori Tetsuzan brought the Maruyama style to the Kanto region. Mori is best known for combining realism with decorativeness, as in this set of four sliding doors with a rendering of two tigers on one side and a painting of birds on the other. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<article class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item\">\n<h2>Camille Claudel (1864\u20131943),\u00a0<em>R\u00eave au coin du feu<\/em> (Fireside Dream), conceived 1899\u20131905<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Claudel_Fireside-Dream-Reve-au-coin-du-feu_1899-1905-copy.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Camille Claudel,  R\u00eave au coin du feu(Fireside Dream), conceived 1899\u20131905, sand cast by Eug\u00e8ne Blot between 1905 and 1937\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Claudel_Fireside-Dream-Reve-au-coin-du-feu_1899-1905-copy.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Camille Claudel,  R\u00eave au coin du feu(Fireside Dream), conceived 1899\u20131905, sand cast by Eug\u00e8ne Blot between 1905 and 1937\"><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum.\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThough she was a prodigious talent, the artistic achievements of sculptor Camille Claudel\u2019s artistic achievements were long obscured by her tragic life story: her relationship with Auguste Rodin, her teacher and lover, and her confinement in a mental hospital during the last decades of her life. Conceived after her breakup with Rodin and representing her determination to distinguish her work from his, this intimate sculpture was one of Claudel\u2019s few commercially successful pieces. It was ultimately editioned in 65 different versions, including some, like this one, that doubled as electric lamps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<article class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item\">\n<h2>Tokio Ueyama, <em>Untitled (Amache portrait)<\/em>, January 17, 1944<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ueyama_Untitled-Amache-portrait_1944-copy.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Tokio Ueyama, Untitled (Amache portrait),\nJanuary 17, 1944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ueyama_Untitled-Amache-portrait_1944-copy.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Tokio Ueyama, Untitled (Amache portrait),\nJanuary 17, 1944\"><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright \u00a9 Estate of Tokio Ueyama.\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe subject of a 2025 survey at the Denver Art Museum, Tokio Ueyama (1889\u20131954) moved to the United States at age 19 and studied fine art in San Francisco, Southern California, and Philadelphia. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was incarcerated with his wife Suye at the Granada Relocation Center (known as Camp Amache to its internees), a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Colorado. Until their release in 1945, Ueyama taught adult art classes to 150 students and continued to make oil paintings, including this sensitive portrait of a woman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<article class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item\">\n<h2>Jesus Rafael Soto, <em>Plata, Negro, y Verde<\/em>, 1969<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Soto_Plata-Negro-y-Verde_1969-copy.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Jesus Rafael Soto, Plata, Negro, y Verde, 1969\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Soto_Plata-Negro-y-Verde_1969-copy.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Jesus Rafael Soto, Plata, Negro, y Verde, 1969\"><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum.\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAfter encountering European geometric abstraction, Venezuelan-born painter and sculptor Jes\u00fas Rafael Soto (1923\u20132005) moved to Paris in 1950, living and working there until his death. In France, he became a leading practitioner of Kinetic art\u2014art that moves or appears to move\u2014inviting viewers to enter his sculptural works and walk around inside them. Closely related to his kinetic artworks, Soto\u2019s paintings likewise depend on the viewer\u2019s participation for their effects; this one, for example, appears to pulse and vibrate as one looks at it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<article class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item\">\n<h2>Jackie Am\u00e9zquita, <em>el <\/em><em>SUDOR de mi GENTE<\/em> (Nuestro Norte Siempre Series), 2023<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Amezquita_el-SUDOR-de-mi-GENTE_2023-copy.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Jackie Am\u00e9zquita, el SUDOR de mi GENTE (Nuestro Norte Siempre Series), 2023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Amezquita_el-SUDOR-de-mi-GENTE_2023-copy.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Jackie Am\u00e9zquita, el SUDOR de mi GENTE (Nuestro Norte Siempre Series), 2023\"><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright \u00a9 Jackie Am\u00e9zquita.\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn this wall piece, Guatemalan-born, Los Angeles-based artist Jackie Am\u00e9zquita addresses the long destructive effects of banana plantations on the people and ecology of Central America. To make the work, Am\u00e9zquita laid bananas on strips of copper, covering the fruit with plastic domes. The decaying bananas corroded the metal, leaving their imprints on its surface, while fruit flies traveled between the domes through plastic straws.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<article class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item\">\n<h2>Tishan Hsu, <em>mammal-screen-green-1<\/em>, 2024<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hsu_mammal-screen-green-1_2024-copy-1.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Tishan Hsu, mammal-screen-green-1, 2024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hsu_mammal-screen-green-1_2024-copy-1.jpg?w=400\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Tishan Hsu, mammal-screen-green-1, 2024\"><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum.  Artwork copyright \u00a9 Tishan Hsu. \t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSince the 1990s, when he started using emerging software like Photoshop in silk-screened works, American artist Tishan Hsu has imagined how digital technologies might transform our visual world, our consciousness, and even our bodies. Since then, rapid advances in computer imaging and 3-D printing have afforded the artist the tools he needed to produce hybrid pieces like this one, which combines silicone protuberances and an enveloping digital \u201cskin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<article class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item\">\n<h2>Dyani White Hawk, <em>Visiting<\/em>, 2024<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/White-Hawk_Visiting_2024-copy.jpg?w=308\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Dyani White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota), Visiting, 2024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/White-Hawk_Visiting_2024-copy.jpg?w=308\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Dyani White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota), Visiting, 2024\"><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright \u00a9 Dyani White Hawk.\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOf Sicangu Lakota, German, and Welsh ancestry, Dyani White Hawk is known for beaded sculptures and paintings that highlight the role Native American art has played in the history of abstraction, a history that until recently was discussed as the province of white artists. Her use of beadwork puts particular emphasis Native women, whose artistry has often been downplayed in the Western canon. Her ten-foot-high columnar sculpture <em>Visiting<\/em>, composed of strips of beadwork, pays tribute to the vertical sculptures of George Morrison (Grand Portage Ojibwe, 1919\u20132000) and Jim Denomie (Ojibwe, Lac Courte Oreilles Band, 1955\u20132022).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/list\/art-news\/news\/denver-art-museum-new-acquisitions-camille-claudel-1234777161\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dixon_cloud_world_1925_copy_720.jpg?w=720&#8243;] The Denver Art Museum in Colorado announced this week that it acquired more than 750 works across all 11 of its curatorial departments in roughly the last year, with an emphasis on further diversifying its collection. Made between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025, the acquisitions included Tishan Hsu\u2019s mammal-screen-green-1 (2024) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1823067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1823067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}