Joellyn Duesberry, Passing Storm III, (detail), 1992, monotype, ink on paper,
Denver Art Museum: Funds from Friends of Painting and Sculpture, 1998.321
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"The Friends of Painting and Sculpture is a non-profit organization for the purposes of supporting and engaging in educational programs relevant to American and European Art ... contribution to the cultural enrichment of its members ... the public in general.  It intends to promote the programs of the Painting and Sculpture Collections of the Denver Art Museum and to render financial support for acquisitions and assistance with exhibitions and programs for the Collection...."


Curator's Update - Fall 2012 Newsletter

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Recent travels took me to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. where I had the opportunity to look at a number of works on paper by Andrew Wyeth.  Here I’m looking at Field Hand, painted with deft touches of transparent washes and then built up with thousands of sensitively placed dry brush marks on a large sheet of paper about 40 inches wide.  Looking at it was like reading a poem over and over again for the delicious language.  It takes time to look closely. It takes more time to discern the visual intelligence imparted by the artist on such a work.  In this case, I sat at this desk looking and taking notes for just under an hour and could have gone on, but needed to address the other twenty odd works.  Multiply this by the thousand others and you have a larger idea of what it takes to internalize the works of an artist such as Wyeth. I’ll be looking intelligently over the next few years as I continue unabated on one of our museum’s next exhibition projects which examines the studio practice of Jamie and Andrew Wyeth. 

Timothy J. Standring
Gates Foundation, Curator of Painting & Sculpture


FOPAS Board 2012-2013

  • Liz Mehrtens - President
  • Tina Goodwin - Ex-Officio
  • Gretchen Cooper - Secretary
  • Elaine Gunnell - Treasurer
  • Kay Landen, Kristin Lohmiller - Members at Large
  • Shannon Robinson - Programs
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  • Ann Polumbus, Norm Smith - Parliamentarian
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  • Bart Johnson, Darrell Mount - Travel

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