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Overview
The Kirkland brings to life 150 years of artistic innovation, offering visitors of all ages an immersive journey through international decorative arts, Colorado’s rich artistic heritage, and the visionary work of artist Vance Kirkland (1904–1981).
The Kirkland merged with the Denver Art Museum in October 2024, and as of June 2025 is fully aligned with matching hours, bilingual text, and accessibility for all ages.
Highlights
The Kirkland features three collection areas:
International Decorative Arts from Arts & Crafts to Postmodern design, with particular strengths in Art Deco and Midcentury Modern. Look for furniture by Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles and Ray Eames, examples from every American Art Pottery company, and dinnerware and lighting fixtures from every era.
Colorado Fine Art from the mid-19th century to the present including many of the founding member of the Artists' Club that founded the Denver Art Museum and colleagues and students of namesake Vance Kirkland.
A retrospective of Colorado’s distinguished painter, Vance Kirkland (1904–1981), with examples of his five painting periods spanning from Realism to Surrealism to abstraction.
➤ The Kirkland Building (12th & Bannock St.)
Department Links
Collection History
Collection Staff
Exhibition History
Publication History
Collection Highlights
Explore highlights from the Kirkland collection.
Vance Kirkland
, Forces of Energy From a Sun in the Open Star Cluster K 1
, 1981. Oil paint and water on linen; 40 x 40 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, KVK1981.04.
John Thompson,
Colorado Landscape
, 1914. Oil paint on panel; 12 x 12 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2000.0006-1.
Frank Lloyd Wright,
Peacock Chair
, 1921. Wood and upholstery; 37 7/8 x 15 ½ x 20 in. Manufactured by Matthew Brothers Furniture Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2020.128.002.
Meret Oppenheim,
Traccia Table with Bird’s Feet
, 1939. Metal and gilded wood; 25 ¼ x 26 5/8 x 21 in. Manufactured by Simon International, Italy. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2014.0208.
Artus Van Briggle,
Despondency
(No. 9) Vase, designed 1900, this example produced 1915. Ceramic; 13 5/8 x 7 ¼ x 7 ¼ in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2004.0758.
Robert Mangold,
Double Tetrahedralhypersphere No. 41
, 1982. Painted, hollow, welded steel tubing; 56 x 270 x 96 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, Gift of Robert Mangold, K2016.06.001. Photo by Wes Magyar.
Otto Prutscher,
Goblet
, about 1912. Glass; 8 1/4 x 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2022.105.024.
Louis Majorelle,
Aux Orchidées
(With Orchids)
Bed
, about 1899–1900. Walnut and macassar ebony wood with thuya, amaranth, bois des îles, and burl amboyna marquetry with mother-of-pearl and copper inlays; headboard 71 3/4 x 65 3/4 x 9 inches; footboard 34 3/4 x 66 x 13. Manufactured by Atelier Majorelle, Nancy, France. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2015.0914.
Vance Kirkland,
Woden’s Ring
, 1945. Watercolor and gouache paint on paper; 22 x 30 ¾ in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, KVK1945.02.
Vance Kirkland,
Creation of Space
, 1960. Oil paint and water on linen; 74 x 105 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, KVK1960.11.
Vance Kirkland,
The Energy of Explosions of the Sun Sixty Billion Years B.C.,
1978. Oil paint and water with gold on linen; 75 x 100 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, KVK1978.10.
Phyllis Hutchinson Montrose,
The Visitor
, 1965. Oil paint on canvas; 12 x 10 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2006.0802.
Al Wynne,
Departure I,
1961. Oil paint on linen; 56 x 72 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2009.0946.
Edward Marecak,
Nabucco
, 1967. Oil paint on canvas; 47 x 35 ½ in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2019.035.001
Elizabeth Yanish Shwayder,
Wings of Gold (#2)
, about 1965. Bronze-coated steel; 62 x 78 x 10 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2008.0075
Russel Wright,
American Modern Pitcher in Steubenville Blue
, 1937–38. Earthenware; 11 x 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. Manufactured by Steubenville Pottery Company, Steubenville, Ohio. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2004.4601.
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann,
Dubly Games Table
(Model AR1076/NR1263), about 1927. Macassar ebony wood, bronze and felt; 29 1/2 x 36 x 36 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2012.0879.
Charles Eames and Ray Eames,
RAR
(Rocking Armchair Rod), 1948–1950. Fiberglass-reinforced polyester, wood, and metal; 27 x 25 x 27 1/4 in. Manufactured by Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, Michigan. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K1995.0013.
Gerrit Rietveld,
Red / Blue Armchair
, 1918/1923. Beech wood and plywood with ebony lacquer and aniline stains; 34 1/8 x 26 x 32 1/4 in. Manufactured by Gerard van de Groenekan, de Bilt, Netherlands. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2013.0749.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh,
Willow Tea Rooms Chair
, 1903. silver painted wood reupholstered in what is believed to be the original color; 40 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2021.123.010.
Clarice Cliff,
Bizarre Ware / Inspiration Caprice Vase
, 1929–31. Ceramic; 6 3/4 x 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. Manufactured by Newport Pottery (1927–1964), Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, Gift of Gloria Zakus, K2010.0251.
Vance Kirkland,
Four Suns in Space
, 1971. Oil paint on linen; 75 x 139 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, KVK1971.13.
Collection Staff
Becca Goodrum, Assistant Curator, The Kirkland
Becca Goodrum is a key member of the teams working to facilitate the merger of the Kirkland and Denver Art Museum, especially the redisplay of the collection to be more accessible and welcoming to all ages. Goodrum held various collections and curatorial roles at The Kirkland (formerly Kirkland Museum) from 2015 to 2024, most recently as curatorial associate. In 2024, Becca was the lead and solo curator for two exhibitions generated from the Kirkland’s collections:
Vanity & Vice: American Art Deco
(ongoing at the Kirkland) and
Wright Place, Wrong Time: Triumphs and Flops on the Mid-Century Modern Table
at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. From 2016 to 2018, Goodrum was instrumental to the packing, moving, unpacking and reinstallation of the full collection when The Kirkland relocated to Bannock Street. Before joining The Kirkland staff, Goodrum worked at History Colorado. She holds a B.A. in History and International Studies from Colorado State University and an M.A. in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins. Since 2021, Goodrum has served on the international Christopher Dresser Society Management Committee and has presented papers at their DresserFest Symposia in 2021 and 2023.
Christopher Herron, Associate Director of Exhibitions & Collections for The Kirkland
Christopher Herron is a key member of many teams working to facilitate the merger of The Kirkland and Denver Art Museum, especially the redisplay of the collection to be more accessible and welcoming to all ages. Since starting at The Kirkland (formerly Kirkland Museum) in 2004, Herron worked on over 50 exhibitions. He has been involved in curating from 2008 to the present, most notably organizing the
Frank Lloyd Wright INSIDE THE WALLS
exhibition of Wright’s furniture in 2022. Herron most recently served as Kirkland Museum’s interim director and deputy curator. Past roles include registrar and collections manager. From 2016 to 2018, he coordinated the packing, moving, unpacking and reinstallation of the full collection when Kirkland Museum relocated to Bannock Street. Before joining Kirkland Museum, Herron worked in graphic design. Herron holds a B.A. in art history from the University of Colorado Denver.
Collection History
In May 1981, artist Vance Kirkland died, naming family friend
Hugh A. Grant
as executor of his estate, including his historic studio & art school building at 13th Avenue and Pearl Street in Denver. Kirkland’s wife predeceased him and they had no children. Grant had been curating exhibitions for Kirkland and conducted extensive interviews to produce catalogs for Kirkland’s 1978 retrospective exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum and Genesis Galleries, New York. From 1981 to 1996, Grant mounted exhibitions of Kirkland’s work and that of other artists such as Edgar Britton and Otto Bach. By 1996, Grant became concerned that Colorado art was not being shown in depth in any museum setting.
In the late 1990s, Hugh Grant and
Merle C. Chambers
took Kirkland’s paintings to nine European countries and Russia with thirteen exhibitions. Grant and Chambers were simultaneously continuing to collect. Chambers, a philanthropist who was married to Grant from 1989–2017, was instrumental in the growth of the museum and developing the extensive international decorative art collection. Construction began on an addition to Vance Kirkland’s Pearl Street studio & art school building, which became the first home of Kirkland Museum.
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art opened to the public on April 2, 2003, displaying paintings by Vance Kirkland, work by other Colorado artists, and international decorative art.
In January 2014, the Kirkland Museum announced plans to relocate to a new building at 12th Avenue and Bannock Street in Denver’s Golden Triangle Creative District designed by Jim Olson. Vance Kirkland’s studio & art school building is the heart of the experience and was relocated to Bannock Street in November 2016. Funding for the new home of the Kirkland, which opened March 10, 2018, was an investment by Merle Chambers and Merle Chambers Fund in the further development of the vibrant Golden Triangle Creative District and Denver’s nationally important art scene.
In May 2024, Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art and the Denver Art Museum jointly announced that the two museums were merging to ensure the Kirkland’s future in perpetuity. The agreement ensures the Kirkland Collection—including Kirkland’s paintings, Colorado art, and international decorative arts—will continue to be displayed in The Kirkland's unique display style using vignettes in the Jim Olson Building on Bannock Street. As of October 1, 2024, one ticket or membership grants access to both Kirkland and the Denver Art Museum. In mid-2025, the two will be fully aligned with matching hours, family activities, and bilingual text.
Publication History
Recent publications include:
Kirkland Museum: A Visual Journey
. Organized and edited by Maya D. Wright with support from Kirkland Museum staff. Much of the text was based on writings, lectures and interviews by Hugh A. Grant. Denver, CO: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, funded by a generous grant from the Sally J. Jobe Foundation, 2021.
Barbara Locketz—Form, Color and Texture
. Essay by Stan Cuba and foreword by Hugh Grant. Denver, CO: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, 2019. Available
directly from Blurb.com
.
Welded & Fabricated Poetry: The Artistic Life of Elizabeth Yanish Shwayder
. Essay by Stan Cuba. Denver, CO: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, 2018.
Exhibition History
In addition to extensive permanent collection displays and loans, the Kirkland began mounting special exhibitions in 2005.
Ongoing:
The Kirkland Galleries
Ongoing:
Vanity & Vice: American Art Deco
2023:
Dave Yust: Evidence of Gravity & Other Works
2023:
Vance Kirkland’s Cosmos
2022:
Frank Lloyd Wright Inside the Walls
2022:
Returning Wright
:
Repatriating Two Martin House Windows
2022:
Josef Hoffmann’s Vienna
2021:
Truth, Beauty, and Power: Christopher Dresser and The Aesthetic Movement
2021:
New Year/New View
2020:
Process & Print
2019:
Pastime / Past Time
2019:
Colorado Abstract +10: A History
2019:
Barbara Locketz—Form, Color and Texture
2019:
Bauhaus Centennial
2018:
Welded & Fabricated Poetry: The Artistic Life of Elizabeth Yanish Shwayder
2018:
Near and Far: Contrasting Regional and National Prints from the Kirkland and Mayer Collections
Featured Articles
Dive deeper into the stories behind some of the artworks in the collection by reading through articles written by our curators, conservators, and museum staff.
View Blog
Vance Kirkland & the Art of Space
The artist created numerous series of paintings inspired by his love of the cosmos.
The Vance Kirkland Studio at the Denver Art Museum is a member of Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
English
Español
Skip to main content
Overview
The Kirkland brings to life 150 years of artistic innovation, offering visitors of all ages an immersive journey through international decorative arts, Colorado’s rich artistic heritage, and the visionary work of artist Vance Kirkland (1904–1981).
The Kirkland merged with the Denver Art Museum in October 2024, and as of June 2025 is fully aligned with matching hours, bilingual text, and accessibility for all ages.
Highlights
The Kirkland features three collection areas:
International Decorative Arts from Arts & Crafts to Postmodern design, with particular strengths in Art Deco and Midcentury Modern. Look for furniture by Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles and Ray Eames, examples from every American Art Pottery company, and dinnerware and lighting fixtures from every era.
Colorado Fine Art from the mid-19th century to the present including many of the founding member of the Artists' Club that founded the Denver Art Museum and colleagues and students of namesake Vance Kirkland.
A retrospective of Colorado’s distinguished painter, Vance Kirkland (1904–1981), with examples of his five painting periods spanning from Realism to Surrealism to abstraction.
➤ The Kirkland Building (12th & Bannock St.)
Department Links
Collection History
Collection Staff
Exhibition History
Publication History
Collection Highlights
Explore highlights from the Kirkland collection.
Vance Kirkland
, Forces of Energy From a Sun in the Open Star Cluster K 1
, 1981. Oil paint and water on linen; 40 x 40 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, KVK1981.04.
John Thompson,
Colorado Landscape
, 1914. Oil paint on panel; 12 x 12 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2000.0006-1.
Frank Lloyd Wright,
Peacock Chair
, 1921. Wood and upholstery; 37 7/8 x 15 ½ x 20 in. Manufactured by Matthew Brothers Furniture Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2020.128.002.
Meret Oppenheim,
Traccia Table with Bird’s Feet
, 1939. Metal and gilded wood; 25 ¼ x 26 5/8 x 21 in. Manufactured by Simon International, Italy. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2014.0208.
Artus Van Briggle,
Despondency
(No. 9) Vase, designed 1900, this example produced 1915. Ceramic; 13 5/8 x 7 ¼ x 7 ¼ in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2004.0758.
Robert Mangold,
Double Tetrahedralhypersphere No. 41
, 1982. Painted, hollow, welded steel tubing; 56 x 270 x 96 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, Gift of Robert Mangold, K2016.06.001. Photo by Wes Magyar.
Otto Prutscher,
Goblet
, about 1912. Glass; 8 1/4 x 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2022.105.024.
Louis Majorelle,
Aux Orchidées
(With Orchids)
Bed
, about 1899–1900. Walnut and macassar ebony wood with thuya, amaranth, bois des îles, and burl amboyna marquetry with mother-of-pearl and copper inlays; headboard 71 3/4 x 65 3/4 x 9 inches; footboard 34 3/4 x 66 x 13. Manufactured by Atelier Majorelle, Nancy, France. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2015.0914.
Vance Kirkland,
Woden’s Ring
, 1945. Watercolor and gouache paint on paper; 22 x 30 ¾ in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, KVK1945.02.
Vance Kirkland,
Creation of Space
, 1960. Oil paint and water on linen; 74 x 105 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, KVK1960.11.
Vance Kirkland,
The Energy of Explosions of the Sun Sixty Billion Years B.C.,
1978. Oil paint and water with gold on linen; 75 x 100 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, KVK1978.10.
Phyllis Hutchinson Montrose,
The Visitor
, 1965. Oil paint on canvas; 12 x 10 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2006.0802.
Al Wynne,
Departure I,
1961. Oil paint on linen; 56 x 72 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2009.0946.
Edward Marecak,
Nabucco
, 1967. Oil paint on canvas; 47 x 35 ½ in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2019.035.001
Elizabeth Yanish Shwayder,
Wings of Gold (#2)
, about 1965. Bronze-coated steel; 62 x 78 x 10 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2008.0075
Russel Wright,
American Modern Pitcher in Steubenville Blue
, 1937–38. Earthenware; 11 x 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. Manufactured by Steubenville Pottery Company, Steubenville, Ohio. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2004.4601.
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann,
Dubly Games Table
(Model AR1076/NR1263), about 1927. Macassar ebony wood, bronze and felt; 29 1/2 x 36 x 36 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2012.0879.
Charles Eames and Ray Eames,
RAR
(Rocking Armchair Rod), 1948–1950. Fiberglass-reinforced polyester, wood, and metal; 27 x 25 x 27 1/4 in. Manufactured by Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, Michigan. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K1995.0013.
Gerrit Rietveld,
Red / Blue Armchair
, 1918/1923. Beech wood and plywood with ebony lacquer and aniline stains; 34 1/8 x 26 x 32 1/4 in. Manufactured by Gerard van de Groenekan, de Bilt, Netherlands. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2013.0749.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh,
Willow Tea Rooms Chair
, 1903. silver painted wood reupholstered in what is believed to be the original color; 40 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, K2021.123.010.
Clarice Cliff,
Bizarre Ware / Inspiration Caprice Vase
, 1929–31. Ceramic; 6 3/4 x 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. Manufactured by Newport Pottery (1927–1964), Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, Gift of Gloria Zakus, K2010.0251.
Vance Kirkland,
Four Suns in Space
, 1971. Oil paint on linen; 75 x 139 in. The Collection of The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, KVK1971.13.
Collection Staff
Becca Goodrum, Assistant Curator, The Kirkland
Becca Goodrum is a key member of the teams working to facilitate the merger of the Kirkland and Denver Art Museum, especially the redisplay of the collection to be more accessible and welcoming to all ages. Goodrum held various collections and curatorial roles at The Kirkland (formerly Kirkland Museum) from 2015 to 2024, most recently as curatorial associate. In 2024, Becca was the lead and solo curator for two exhibitions generated from the Kirkland’s collections:
Vanity & Vice: American Art Deco
(ongoing at the Kirkland) and
Wright Place, Wrong Time: Triumphs and Flops on the Mid-Century Modern Table
at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. From 2016 to 2018, Goodrum was instrumental to the packing, moving, unpacking and reinstallation of the full collection when The Kirkland relocated to Bannock Street. Before joining The Kirkland staff, Goodrum worked at History Colorado. She holds a B.A. in History and International Studies from Colorado State University and an M.A. in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins. Since 2021, Goodrum has served on the international Christopher Dresser Society Management Committee and has presented papers at their DresserFest Symposia in 2021 and 2023.
Christopher Herron, Associate Director of Exhibitions & Collections for The Kirkland
Christopher Herron is a key member of many teams working to facilitate the merger of The Kirkland and Denver Art Museum, especially the redisplay of the collection to be more accessible and welcoming to all ages. Since starting at The Kirkland (formerly Kirkland Museum) in 2004, Herron worked on over 50 exhibitions. He has been involved in curating from 2008 to the present, most notably organizing the
Frank Lloyd Wright INSIDE THE WALLS
exhibition of Wright’s furniture in 2022. Herron most recently served as Kirkland Museum’s interim director and deputy curator. Past roles include registrar and collections manager. From 2016 to 2018, he coordinated the packing, moving, unpacking and reinstallation of the full collection when Kirkland Museum relocated to Bannock Street. Before joining Kirkland Museum, Herron worked in graphic design. Herron holds a B.A. in art history from the University of Colorado Denver.
Collection History
In May 1981, artist Vance Kirkland died, naming family friend
Hugh A. Grant
as executor of his estate, including his historic studio & art school building at 13th Avenue and Pearl Street in Denver. Kirkland’s wife predeceased him and they had no children. Grant had been curating exhibitions for Kirkland and conducted extensive interviews to produce catalogs for Kirkland’s 1978 retrospective exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum and Genesis Galleries, New York. From 1981 to 1996, Grant mounted exhibitions of Kirkland’s work and that of other artists such as Edgar Britton and Otto Bach. By 1996, Grant became concerned that Colorado art was not being shown in depth in any museum setting.
In the late 1990s, Hugh Grant and
Merle C. Chambers
took Kirkland’s paintings to nine European countries and Russia with thirteen exhibitions. Grant and Chambers were simultaneously continuing to collect. Chambers, a philanthropist who was married to Grant from 1989–2017, was instrumental in the growth of the museum and developing the extensive international decorative art collection. Construction began on an addition to Vance Kirkland’s Pearl Street studio & art school building, which became the first home of Kirkland Museum.
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art opened to the public on April 2, 2003, displaying paintings by Vance Kirkland, work by other Colorado artists, and international decorative art.
In January 2014, the Kirkland Museum announced plans to relocate to a new building at 12th Avenue and Bannock Street in Denver’s Golden Triangle Creative District designed by Jim Olson. Vance Kirkland’s studio & art school building is the heart of the experience and was relocated to Bannock Street in November 2016. Funding for the new home of the Kirkland, which opened March 10, 2018, was an investment by Merle Chambers and Merle Chambers Fund in the further development of the vibrant Golden Triangle Creative District and Denver’s nationally important art scene.
In May 2024, Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art and the Denver Art Museum jointly announced that the two museums were merging to ensure the Kirkland’s future in perpetuity. The agreement ensures the Kirkland Collection—including Kirkland’s paintings, Colorado art, and international decorative arts—will continue to be displayed in The Kirkland's unique display style using vignettes in the Jim Olson Building on Bannock Street. As of October 1, 2024, one ticket or membership grants access to both Kirkland and the Denver Art Museum. In mid-2025, the two will be fully aligned with matching hours, family activities, and bilingual text.
Publication History
Recent publications include:
Kirkland Museum: A Visual Journey
. Organized and edited by Maya D. Wright with support from Kirkland Museum staff. Much of the text was based on writings, lectures and interviews by Hugh A. Grant. Denver, CO: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, funded by a generous grant from the Sally J. Jobe Foundation, 2021.
Barbara Locketz—Form, Color and Texture
. Essay by Stan Cuba and foreword by Hugh Grant. Denver, CO: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, 2019. Available
directly from Blurb.com
.
Welded & Fabricated Poetry: The Artistic Life of Elizabeth Yanish Shwayder
. Essay by Stan Cuba. Denver, CO: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, 2018.
Exhibition History
In addition to extensive permanent collection displays and loans, the Kirkland began mounting special exhibitions in 2005.
Ongoing:
The Kirkland Galleries
Ongoing:
Vanity & Vice: American Art Deco
2023:
Dave Yust: Evidence of Gravity & Other Works
2023:
Vance Kirkland’s Cosmos
2022:
Frank Lloyd Wright Inside the Walls
2022:
Returning Wright
:
Repatriating Two Martin House Windows
2022:
Josef Hoffmann’s Vienna
2021:
Truth, Beauty, and Power: Christopher Dresser and The Aesthetic Movement
2021:
New Year/New View
2020:
Process & Print
2019:
Pastime / Past Time
2019:
Colorado Abstract +10: A History
2019:
Barbara Locketz—Form, Color and Texture
2019:
Bauhaus Centennial
2018:
Welded & Fabricated Poetry: The Artistic Life of Elizabeth Yanish Shwayder
2018:
Near and Far: Contrasting Regional and National Prints from the Kirkland and Mayer Collections
Featured Articles
Dive deeper into the stories behind some of the artworks in the collection by reading through articles written by our curators, conservators, and museum staff.
View Blog
Vance Kirkland & the Art of Space
The artist created numerous series of paintings inspired by his love of the cosmos.
The Vance Kirkland Studio at the Denver Art Museum is a member of Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
English
Español