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🌸Michelle🌸

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And I’ve done Denver

#denverartmuseum #lodo #birchinspired

October 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM Everybody can reply

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Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

Untitled (Amache Portrait) by Tokio Ueyama (Japanese American) - Oil on canvas / January 17, 1944 - Denver Art Museum (Colorado) #WomenInArt #art #artwork #TokioUeyama #Ueyama #portraitofaWoman #JapaneseAmericanArt #DenverArtMuseum #BlueskyArt #JapaneseAmerican #artText #JapaneseAmericanArtist

This is a portrait of a young Japanese American woman presented from the chest up. Her dark hair has tendrils framing her face and some loose strands falling to her shoulders rendered with loose, expressive brushstrokes. Her skin tone is light with a subtle blush on her cheeks. Her expression is calm, her eyes directed slightly upward and to our right. Her lips are painted a bold, reddish-orange.

She is wearing a collared shirt with a loosely-woven, plaid pattern in muted colors— primarily shades of grey, burgundy, and muted reddish-orange. The plaid pattern is not precisely uniform; the brushwork suggests a certain casualness in the texture of the fabric.

The background is a very pale, almost off-white, and deliberately understated, focusing our attention entirely on the woman.

Anti-Japanese racism in America following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor by imperial Japan resulted in one of the nation’s most regrettable chapters. Under the guise of “national security,” roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans, 79,000 of them U.S. citizens, were identified by the government, given 6 days to put their affairs in order – sell houses, close businesses, contact family – collect what few possessions they could carry, then sent to remote military zones, mostly across the Western U.S. Anyone at least 1/16th Japanese was taken.

Officially termed “relocation centers,” the prisoners were held in concentration camps full of innocent civilians with no charges made against them and held against their will, indefinitely, in miserable conditions, behind barbed wire and under armed guard.

One of these camps was known as Amache, near Granada, CO, 220 miles southeast of Denver. One of the prisoners there was the Japanese-born American artist Tokio Ueyama … and another was this unidentified young woman who posed for this memorable oil portrait on January 17, 1944 at camp Amache.

August 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM Everybody can reply

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Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

Mama Ocllo Huacco I Ccoya del Peru - After Marco Chillitupa Chávez (Peruvian) - Oil on canvas / 1830-1850 - Denver Art Museum (Colorado) #WomenInArt #art #ArtText #artwork #DenverArtMuseum #PeruvianArt #Queen #Peruvian #womensart #portraitofawoman #oilpainting #MamaOcllo #incan #coya #blueskyart

This painting is one of a series of sixteen at the Denver Art Museum in Denver Colorado showing ancient rulers of the Inca Empire. It is not only a family tree but a political tool. Since proof of aristocratic Inca blood entitled people to special privileges and freed them from paying taxes in the Spanish Colonial period, paintings were used to document and assert this heritage. The set of paintings ends with Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish “conqueror” of Peru in 1534, shown in his European armor.

Although romanticized, the Inca male rulers wear the uncu, an exquisitely woven tunic, and an aberrant version of the llautu, the traditional royal headdress complete with red forehead fringe. The painting of the Inca queen, Mama Occollo, shows her wearing the traditional women’s mantle, or lliclla, a rectangular cloth worn across the shoulders so that the stripes appear horizontally across the back, and held in place by a tupu pin inserted horizontally in the front. The geometric textile patterns in all the paintings are reminiscent of tocapu designs on traditional Inca noble clothing, signifying rank and status.

The Coya Mama Ocllo Coya (or just Mama Ocllo) was a princess and queen consort, Coya, of the Inca Empire by marriage to her younger brother, Sapa Inca Topa Inca Yupanqui in accordance with custom. She was the mother of Huayna Capac and Coya Cusirimay. Queen Mama Ocllo is described as a dominant figure, "desirous for wealth" and remembered for her stratagems by which she was to have wielded great influence upon the affairs of state.

After the death of her spouse, Topa Inca Yupanqui, in 1493, her son and heir, Huayna Capac, was still a minor. The favorite concubine of her late spouse, Ciqui Ollco, attempted to place her son Capac Huari on the throne. Queen dowager Mama Ocllo prevented this attempted coup by planting the rumor that Ciqui Ollco was a witch and exiling Capac Huari to Chincheru, while her son, Huayna Capac, became the next Inca leader.

July 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM Everybody can reply

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Sapar

@sapardu.bsky.social

At the Denver Art Museum, it's like they've curated the collections to take you on a global art road trip. Each floor is one part of the world. Each section feels like a different chapter in the story of human creativity. #DenverArtMuseum #ConArtInSitu

April 4, 2024 at 7:39 PM Everybody can reply

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Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

Portrait de Femme by Amedeo Modigliani (Italian) - Oil on canvas - 1918 - Denver (Colorado) Art Museum #art #modigliani #portraitdefemme #denverartmuseum #womeninart #oilpainting

Oil painting of a woman by Amedeo Modigliani (Italian) from 1918

November 21, 2024 at 3:39 PM Everybody can reply

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Joey McAllister [Archive]

@joeymcallister.bsky.social

Why is @DenverArtMuseum open late on Fridays, but only until 5 on Saturdays? #BackToTheDrawingBoard

December 1, 2024 at 6:13 AM Everybody can reply

Shane's Comics and Things

@shanescomics.bsky.social

Denver Art Museum Daniel Sprick's Fictions: Recent Works (2014) Standring

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#ebay #ebayfinds #uniquegifts #vintage #nostalgia #denverartmuseum #artbook #artshow #rentsdue #everythingmustgo #makeanoffer

September 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM Everybody can reply

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mistertravel.bsky.social

@mistertravel.bsky.social

Denver, il se passe pas mal d’évènements

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#denver #etatsunis #evenements #powwow #denverartmuseum #mistertravelnews

Spécial USA: quoi de neuf à Denver?

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March 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM Everybody can reply

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Chasing Aphrodite

@chasingaphrodite.bsky.social

The [Min of Culture official] said she hoped that the agreement will "send a message" to those still in possession of Cambodia's cultural heritage.

Looking at you @metmuseum @ClevelandArt @DenverArtMuseum

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November 23, 2024 at 11:48 AM Everybody can reply

Sapar

@sapardu.bsky.social

I saw some incredible art at the Denver Art Museum! From Rothenberg's raw emotional charcoal textures to Tansey's mind-bending oil narratives, each piece, left me in awe. Can't wait to dive back into this next week again! #DenverArtMuseum #ConArtInSitu

April 4, 2024 at 7:44 PM Everybody can reply

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Casy Nan

@casynan.bsky.social

Lovely night at the Denver Art Museum.

#DenverArtMuseum #Art #illustration #MauriceSendak

December 27, 2024 at 2:48 AM Everybody can reply

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Society for Iberian Global Art

@siga.spainculture.us

The Mayer Center at @DenverArtMuseum will host its 20th annual symposium, "ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas," on February 12! For more info and to purchase tickets for this hybrid event, see:#SIGA
Darío Escobar, "Untitled" (2000/2007) @pamm

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April 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM Everybody can reply

Marci Michelle

@marcimichelle.bsky.social

#FF ❄@happeningnaspen @DenverArtMuseum @OnTheSnow @AspenRealLife @BellyUpAspen @tmophoto @snowdotcom @powderMagazine @AspenSnowmass

December 6, 2024 at 12:45 AM Everybody can reply

Blackcat427

@blackcat427.bsky.social

Had fun until the freakin fire alarm went off 😭
#wherethewildthingsare #mauricesendak #denverartmuseum

Drawing of a boy wearing a crown and a monster suit playing in a tree. From "where the wild things are."

November 19, 2024 at 9:05 PM Everybody can reply

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Chasing Aphrodite

@chasingaphrodite.bsky.social

Museums are “not in the business of just giving away our entire collections:'

⁦@DenverArtMuseum⁩ denies Lingít repatriations - Alaska Public Media...

November 19, 2024 at 12:24 PM Everybody can reply

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MereTheeWell

@mymerehut.bsky.social

"The Scream" by Cree artist Kent Monkman, is one of the very moving pieces in his exhibit, "History is Painted by the Victors," at the Denver Art Museum. The exhibit is thought-provoking & very timely as we see lives being destroyed by this administration. #KentMonkman #DenverArtMuseum

A scene of children being abducted by nuns & Canadian Mounties. A girl in a blue dress is screaming.

July 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM Everybody can reply

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Ambulocetus

@ambulocetus.pixey.org.ap.brid.gy

At #denverartmuseum even the windows are works of art. #Fensterfreitag

October 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM Everybody can reply

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The Savvy Museum Visitor

@savvymuseumvisitor.bsky.social

Elevator doors! The Denver Art Museum doesn’t just have an excellent collection of art and great hospitality, but their visitor experience includes creating an ambiance that extends to elevator doors! Love this museum! Have you been?

#visitorexperience #museum #denverartmuseum

March 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM Everybody can reply

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royal b

@dfmoof.bsky.social

visited #denverartmuseum with beau for “Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak” exhibit

pictured: unused alternate book cover! more to follow.

“Wild Things is named after Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are … [presenting] more than 450 artworks created by Maurice Sendak.“

#denver #yeg

December 4, 2024 at 3:46 AM Everybody can reply

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Chasing Aphrodite

@chasingaphrodite.bsky.social

The Cambodian objects include this Bronze Shiva Triad, which was smuggled out of Cambodia in the early 2000’s at the direction of Nancy WIENER.

When she failed to sell it at her Manhattan gallery she donated it to the @DenverArtMuseum in 2007

Cc: @sam_tabachnik

November 19, 2024 at 12:39 PM Everybody can reply

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Chasing Aphrodite

@chasingaphrodite.bsky.social

The "Colorado Museum" is the @DenverArtMuseum which acquired at least six objects from Latchford.

The "false collector" is likely Ian Donaldson, a name Latchford and Wiener used for false provenances....

November 24, 2024 at 5:41 AM Everybody can reply

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Chasing Aphrodite

@chasingaphrodite.bsky.social

The @DenverArtMuseum claims museum collecting practices have changed in recent decades.

Indeed they have…though it was never legal to buy looted antiquities.

Also: the museum bought most of its objects from Latchford *after* 2000, more than 2 decades after UNESCO.

November 22, 2024 at 4:08 AM Everybody can reply

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Tammy Proctor

@usuhistorienne.bsky.social

The Maurice Sendak exhibit at the #DenverArtMuseum restored my faith in humanity

November 15, 2024 at 10:39 PM Everybody can reply

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Normal Kid Rob

@normalkidrob.bsky.social

Certain times of year, the sun hits the #Denverartmuseum in such a cool way.

December 3, 2024 at 11:28 PM Everybody can reply

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Chasing Aphrodite

@chasingaphrodite.bsky.social

Here's a run down of some highlights of the seizure:

One of these two Khmer sculptures was on loan @DenverArtMuseum when the Collector purchased them in 2003.

Latchford later revealed they were "found broken in parts" when looted from Bantaey Chmmar in Northwest Cambodia.

November 22, 2024 at 11:14 PM Everybody can reply

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