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1311 Pearl St. Denver, CO 80203

303-882-8576

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Best Historic Show — Group
Award Winner 2012

Hours: Sun 1pm-5pm, Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

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Featuring works by Vance Kirkland and other Colorado artists and an extensive collection of mid-20th-century decorative objects, housed on the site of Kirkland's 1910 Capitol Hill studio.

Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Sun.

As founding director of both the Art School at the Univeristy of Denver and the Kirkland School of Art, Vance Kirkland is one of Colorado's most in...

2012 | Best Historic Show -- Group

The late Vance Kirkland is unquestionably the most famous abstract painter in the history of Colorado art, making the Kirkland Museum the perfect place to mount a show about abstraction in this state. The four-part show, which is still on view, was conceived by museum director Hugh Grant, using his usual more-is-more style. With this loosely organized exhibit, Grant provides a look at Kirkland's illustrious career, at the work of his contemporaries, at abstract sculpture and at later... More »
2011 | Best Place to See the Art of Colorado's Past

When Vance Kirkland, Denver's premier mid-century modernist painter, died in 1981, he left his estate of magnificent watercolors and paintings to Hugh Grant -- the artist's longtime friend who is decidedly not the well-known actor with the same name. In the late 1990s, Grant decided to share the collection with the public, a decision that resulted in the founding of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art several years later. But Grant didn't stop with showing all those... More »
2010 | Best Design Show

Guest curators Katherine and Michael McCoy took over the two main exhibition spaces on the first floor of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, transforming them into a history lesson on the development of modern design. Using some spectacular pieces from the Kirkland's permanent collection, the McCoys walked visitors through the twentieth-century. The show began with the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright, then moved on to the Bauhaus masters, continuing with their American heirs, such... More »
2009 | Best Design Show

One of the Kirkland Museum's specialties is modern design, which made it the perfect venue for the traveling exhibit Florence Knoll: Defining Modern. The show comprised pieces of Knoll's furniture that truly expressed her less-is-more philosophy. Knoll favored straight lines and minimal detailing, but she was a perfectionist when it came to scale and proportion. Kirkland curator Hugh Grant supplemented the show with the museum's own pieces by Knoll and other designers of her generation,... More »
2008 | Best Art History Lesson

Twenty years ago, Colorado art from the 1950s and '60s was more often seen in thrift shops than in galleries or museums. But times have changed, and in the past ten years, many people, especially curators, scholars and collectors, have become interested in artwork from this period. Hugh Grant of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art is now the leading advocate for the forgotten Colorado artists, two of whom, Edward and Donna Marecak, were the subject of the large and thoughtful... More »
2007 | Best Artful Family Reunion

No one has done more to promote Colorado's historic artists than Hugh Grant, director of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art. But Grant only rarely mounts shows at the museum, which is one of the reasons that Vavra Triptych was so special. Grant brought out work by husband and wife Frank and Kathleen Vavra along with that of their daughter, Diana. Frank studied in France before 1920, and his early work is pure impressionism, but he would later go to abstraction; Kathleen was a... More »
2005 | Best Supporter of Colorado Art

It started as a museum devoted to the work of a single artist, Vance Kirkland, but the Kirkland Museum has expanded its collecting scope greatly over the years, and now has an exhaustive collection of decorative art on display. Kirkland director Hugh Grant has also avidly sought out artworks by other Colorado artists, making the Kirkland the only institution in the state to focus on locals. The museum currently houses examples by nearly 200 artists who worked in Colorado, including recently... More »

Colorado Abstract Expressionism and Al Wynne: A to Z show off the state's abstract-expressionist gems

By Michael Paglia | Thu, December 08, 2011

The opening of the Clyfford Still Museum last month has prompted a resurgence of interest in early abstraction in Colorado, from the 1940s to the 1970s. In the beginning, Still was way ahead of even the most advanced artists here — as well as thos... More »
15 Colorado Artists explores the state's modernists

By Michael Paglia | Thu, June 23, 2011

The story of art in the twentieth century is well known. The center of the world in 1900 was in Europe, while American art was dominated by regionalism, a representational style derived from realism. With the rise of the Nazis and the advent of Wo... More »
Tonight: More poems about things at the Kirkland Museum's "Ekphrastic Poetry"

By Jef Otte | Wed, April 6, 2011

It can be hard to know what to make of art, especially when the art in question is that of Vance Kirkland, Colorado's foremost abstract expressionist. Sometimes, you need a little help with the interp... More »

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Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art

1311 Pearl St. Denver, CO 80203

303-882-8576

Description

Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Sun.

2012 | Best Historic Show -- Group

2011 | Best Place to See the Art of Colorado's Past

2010 | Best Design Show

2009 | Best Design Show

2008 | Best Art History Lesson

2007 | Best Artful Family Reunion

2005 | Best Supporter of Colorado Art

Colorado Abstract Expressionism and Al Wynne: A to Z show off the state's abstract-expressionist gems

By Michael Paglia | Thu, December 08, 2011

15 Colorado Artists explores the state's modernists

By Michael Paglia | Thu, June 23, 2011

Tonight: More poems about things at the Kirkland Museum's "Ekphrastic Poetry"

By Jef Otte | Wed, April 6, 2011