In a particularly apropos wager, the city art museums for both Denver and Seattle have placed thematically-fitting artworks on the line over the result of this Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks.  Denver has wagered one of Frederic Remington’s Bronco Buster statues, and Seattle will put forward Sound of Waves,” a 12-foot-wide drawing of a hawk by Japanese artist Tsuji Kako. (more…)

Colorado collector and philanthropist Frederic C. Hamilton has bequeathed a collection of French Impressionist works to the Denver Art Museum.  The works, which include pieces by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, and Gustave Caillebotte, have not been formally appraised, but could be worth up to $100 million.  “This is a game-changing gift,” said DAM director Christoph Heinrich. “We will have the biggest collection in the West of Impressionist art.” (more…)

The Denver Art Museum has received a donation of 50 paintings and sculptures from the collection of Henry Roath, a former Denver lawyer and banker.  The donation, which includes works by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington and Ernest L. Blumenschein, is helping to bolster the Denver institution’s already impressive collection of Western Art.  “As my finances got better, my collection got better.” Roath said, but “it seemed that artwork of that quality should be seen by people other than just its owners.” (more…)