western american art

Level 2, Hamilton Building & Level 7, North Building

 

The DAM’s Institute for Western American Art oversees an active program of acquisitions and exhibitions. The collection includes work by western masters such as George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, John Mix Stanley, Alfred Jacob Miller, and others. The crown jewel in the institute's collection is Charles Deas’s Long Jakes, "the Rocky Mountain Man," the single most influential image in Rocky Mountain iconography.

 

The western American art collection was greatly enhanced in 2001 with a gift of more than 800 works of art from Bill and Dorothy Harmsen, longtime Colorado residents and founders of the Jolly Rancher Candy Company.

 

Follow the links below to view selections from the western American art collection. Please note that not all works shown below are currently on view.

 

American Grasslands, Karen E. Kitchel

Twenty painted panels show close-ups of different...

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By June the Light Begins to Breathe, Keith Jacobshagen

Jacobshagen keenly observes the Nebraska prairie.

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Eagle’s Nest Lake, Ernest L. Blumenschein

Blumenschein was in the Taos Society of Artists.

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In the Enemy’s Country, Charles Marion Russell

Russell painted this five years before his death.

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Long Jakes, "the Rocky Mountain Man", Charles Deas

Deas established the mountain man as an icon.

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Rabbit Hunt, E. Martin Hennings

Hennings depicted the people of New Mexico.

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The Cheyenne, Frederic Remington

Remington started sculpting in the mid-1890s.

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