Denver, Colorado

After visiting Allison in Boulder, we stopped at the Denver Museum in downtown Denver on the way back to the airport. (This photo is the capital of Colorado, taken from in front of the museum.)

The Denver Museum does not try to be everything. It is very strong in pre-Columbian, American Indian, and Spanish Colonial art and has outstanding exhibits of those. For the rest, rather than arranging the exhibits by time and place (Dutch Masters, English, Impressionist, Modern, etc.) there are three collections: One of portraits, one of "places" (mostly landscapes and cityscapes), and one of objects (still-lifes). Each collection shows how artists of many different eras and places approached that genre. This was very interesting and effective.

Included in all that were two absolutely sensational Charlie Russell paintings, probably the best I have ever seen.