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About the Museumʼs Publications

The Denver Art Museum has long published important and insightful catalogs to accompany our exhibitions, highlight our permanent collection, and share our symposium scholarship. In 2023, we launched our first digital catalogs to add to our robust publication efforts (learn more on our blog). Whether print or digital, our publications strive to bring art, beauty, and knowledge to art lovers and the art curious.

Browse our free digital publications and our print catalogs available for purchase in our museum Shop.

Digital Publications

Explore our available digital publications.

The Life and Art of Tokio Ueyama (July 2024)

Edited by JR Henneman

Biophilia: Nature Reimagined (May 2024)

Edited by Darrin Alfred

Perfectly Imperfect: Korean Buncheong Ceramics (December 2023)

Hyonjeong Kim Han and Ji Young Park

Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection (February 2023)

Edited by Einor Cervone

Print Publications

Browse a selection of print publications by collection.

Collection Highlights

Denver Art Museum Collection Highlights (2021)

Architecture and Design

Gio Ponti in the American West (2020)

Edited by Taisto H. Mäkelä

Arts of Asia

Catalog cover for the Fantastic Brush special exhibition gallery

Fantastic Brush: Twentieth-Century Chinese Ink Art from the Robert and Lisa Kessler Collection (2021)

Tianlong Jiao, Stephanie Su, and Yang Wang

Linking Asia: Art, Trade & Devotion (2017)

Tialong Jiao

Arts of the Ancient Americas

Cover of the El Mar Caribe featuring a map of an island

El Mar Caribe: The American Mediterranean (2019 Mayer Center Symposium) (2024)

Edited by Victoria Isabel Lyall

Cover of the Traitor, Survivor, Icon catalog

Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche (2022)

Edited by Victoria I. Lyall and Terezita Romo

ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas (2020)

Edited by Victoria I. Lyall and Jorge F. Rivas Peréz

Murals of the Americas (2017 Mayer Center Symposium) (2019)

Edited by Victoria I. Lyall

Marajó: Ancient Ceramics from the Mouth of the Amazon (2011)

Margaret Young-Sánchez and Denise P. Schaan

Tiwanaku (2005 Mayer Center Symposium) (2009)

Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez

European and American Art before 1900

Nature as Muse: Inventing Impressionist Landscape: From the Collection of Frederic C. Hamilton and the Denver Art Museum, 2nd edition (2020)

Christoph Heinrich

Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature (2019)

Angelica Daneo, Christoph Heinrich, Michael Philipp, and Ortrud Westheider

Treasures of British Art 1400–2000: The Berger Collection (2014)

Kathleen Stuart, et al.

Latin American Art

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes cover

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes (2024)

Raphael Fonseca

Appropriation & Invention: Three Centuries of Art in Spanish America (2022)

Edited by Jorge F. Rivas Pérez

Who tells a tale adds a tail exhibition catalog cover

Who Tells a Tale Adds a Tail: Latin America and Contemporary Art (2022)

Raphael Fonseca

Materiality: Making Spanish America book cover

Materiality: Making Spanish America (2018 Mayer Center Symposium) (2020)

Edited by Jorge F. Rivas Pérez

Companion to Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry of Colonial Latin America at the Denver Art Museum (2015)

Donna Pierce and Julie Wilson Frick

At the Crossroads: The Arts of Spanish America & Early Global Trade, 1492–1850 (2010 Mayer Symposium) (2012)

Edited by Donna Pierce and Ronald Y. Otsuka

The Arts of South America, 1492–1850 (2008 Mayer Center Symposium) (2010)

Edited by Donna Pierce

Exploring New World Imagery (2002 Mayer Symposium) (2005)

Edited by Donna Pierce

Modern and Contemporary Art

Women of Abstract Expressionism (2016)

Edited by Joan Marter

Companion to Focus: Robert Motherwell from the Collection (2011)

Nancy Tieken

From Bauhaus to Aspen: Herbert Bayer and Modernist Design in America (2005)

Gwen F. Chanzit

Native Arts

Here Now: Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum (2022)

Edited by John P. Lukavic, Dakota Hoska, and Christopher Patrello

Companion to Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art (2020)

Edited by Christopher Patrello

Art in Motion: Native American Explorations in Time, Place, and Thought (2016)

Edited by John Lukavic and Laura Caruso

Companion to Oceanic Art at the Denver Art Museum (2014)

Nancy J. Blomberg

Photography

Catalog cover for Other People's Pictures

Companion to the Robert and Kerstin Adams Photography Collection (2022)

Edited by Eric Paddock

Companion to the Strauss Photography Collection at the Denver Art Museum (2014)

Edited by Eric Paddock

Western American Art

Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism (2023)

Edited by JR (Jennifer R.) Henneman

The Russells in Denver, 1921 (2023)

Edited by JR (Jennifer R.) Henneman

The American West in Art (2020)

Edited by Thomas Brent Smith and Jennifer R. (JR) Henneman

Decades: An Expanded Context for Western American Art, 1900–1940 (Western Passages, vol. 8) (2013)

Edited by Thomas Brent Smith

Department Staff

Valerie Hellstein, Managing Editor
Valerie Hellstein oversees the Publications department. She started at the museum as the Publications and Programs Coordinator for the Petrie Institute of Western American Art and then moved into the Publications department as Editor. She has worked on numerous exhibition and collections catalogs, launched the museumʼs first digital publications, and edited countless gallery texts. She has a doctorate in art history and taught university level and adult education classes for more than a decade. She has published on and spoken widely about various aspects of Abstract Expressionism, including the work of Willem de Kooning and Clyfford Still.

Leslie Murrell, Editor
Leslie Murrell is an editor at the Denver Art Museum and an art historian of modern and contemporary art. She has more than twenty years’ experience in the world of art museums, spanning education programming, curatorial endeavors, and editing across a variety of fields.