Updated: 6/23/2011 
Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art
Denver, Colorado
Description

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art has a nationally important display of international decorative art. More than 3,300 works are on view of Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Glasgow Style, Wiener Werkstätte, De Stijl, Bauhaus, Art Deco, Modern and Pop Art. This collection concentrates on a period from the 1860s to about 1980. A major survey of regional art, with a focus on Colorado art, is documented. More than 700 works by about 170 artists are displayed at any one time. The regional art collection has an emphasis from 1820 to about 1980. The museum also shows a retrospective of Colorado's distinguished painter, Vance Kirkland (1904-1981). Kirkland Museum is a member of the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Artifact Collections

Kirkland Museum displays an internationally important decorative arts collection (1880-1980) with over 3,300 works on view, a retrospective of noted Colorado painter Vance Kirkland and the works of over 160 other modernist Colorado artists.

Library

Access: Scholars, Staff Only

Appointment required: True

Services
Gift Shop
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