Last Thursday, we had a very successful opening reception for A Decade of Gifts and Discoveries. Thank you to all of you who came out and helped us kick off the run of the show! Click here to see more photos from the opening! If you haven’t yet, please stop by and visit; we are open daily from 12 to 4. If you don’t know about all the hidden gems in the DU Art Collections, prepare to be pleasantly surprised.
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 Director, Dan Jacobs, and several members of the gallery staff working together to unload the final pieces for the upcoming A Decade of Gifts and Discoveries exhibition. If you missed out on the excitement, you may be interested in these photos. Now that all art is at...
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!
We’re gearing up for the Decade of Gifts and Discoveries show, opening on January 9th! Artwork is flowing in from buildings scattered across campus, as well as from the Hampden Art Study Center. Today, the gallery team brought over a group of paintings, including two from the Sturm College of Law. The first is a 19th-century Florentine replica of Rafael’s Madonna della Sedia, which boasts a lovely carved and gilded frame. The second is one of the highlights of the DU Art Collection: a charming portrait of a peasant girl by the prolific painter Daniel Ridgway Knight, from around the turn of...
SNEAK PEEK: A Decade of Gifts and Discoveries The collections team has been busy preparing for the upcoming Gifts and Discoveries show. One of the gifts to be on display in this exhibition is a silk Chinese Imperial Court Robe that had been “re-discovered” after its move to the new Hampden Art Storage Center last year. The crew carefully unwrapped the robe from its temporary packaging in order to examine its condition for installation and take some updated photos. The incredible detail in the embroidery sidetracked them as they tried to decipher the symbols depicted in the 19th century Ch’ing Dynasty...
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 in the show. The walls are going up, as evidenced by the images of staff members hard at work! Stay tuned for further updates on our progress and be sure to save the date, so you don’t miss out on the chance to be one...
