With its vast prairies and impressive mountains, Colorado has
been a mecca for painters since the beginning of the nineteenth
century. This latest volume in the Denver Art Museum's Western
Passages series celebrates a diverse group of painters who found
special allegiance to the Rockies and to the human history of
Colorado.
Many who ventured into Colorado in the 1800s sought inspiration
in the land. The state attracted such masters of landscape painting
as Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Worthington
Whittredge. So pervasive and popular were images of Colorado's
peaks that some art historians have dubbed those who portrayed
these sites as the "Rocky Mountain School." During the 1900s, focus
shifted to the human story, and artists benefited from the
organizational activities of the Denver Artists Club, founded by a
group of women artists who were instrumental in the eventual
founding of the Denver Art Museum.
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