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Publications

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.

Print Publications

Browse a selection of print publications by collection.

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.