Have you ever wondered how large piece of artwork arrive at a gallery? Sometimes professional art shippers are used to transport the pieces, but many institutions prefer to use their own resources and employees to move art from their storage site to the exhibition space when possible. Yesterday, passersby near the Myhren Gallery could see...
The Myhren Gallery will be closed through the New Year. We’ll still be facilitating year-end donations though, and will be reachable via email. Thanks, and Happy Holidays!
The University of Denver students may be on Winter Break, but the staff at the Myhren Gallery is hard at work preparing for the upcoming A Decade of Gifts and Discoveries exhibition. We are working on constructing an interesting new configuration to host the cornucopia of artwork from the University Art Collection which will appear...
Three grazing cows amble across the foreground of a verdant green landscape; a cluster of their bovine companions gather under the shade of a massive oak nearby. The sky is a serene blue-grey, and the whole scene is washed in a dusty golden hue. Albert Bierstadt’s painting, “Weeping Oaks, Clear Creek, California” (ca. 1881) is...
This quarter, Professor of Art History, Annette Stott, is teaching a graduate seminar on the History of Collecting in the United States. The graduate seminar studies the history of art collecting in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Since September, the students have been learning about theories and philosophies of collecting, some important...
There was quite a bit of excitement around the Myhren Gallery last Thursday afternoon! We attracted a new audience, and they came in droves into the lobby of the art building, wearing nothing but swimsuits and towels. Some of the students at the School of Art and Art History wondered if there might be an...
