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The club
The museum began as the Denver Artists Club in 1893
The museum's origins lie in the Denver Artists Club, founded in 1893. It became the Denver Art Association in 1917, opened galleries in the Chappell House in 1922, and became the Denver Art Museum in 1923.
Gio Ponti
The Martin Building is Gio Ponti's only completed design in the United States
The seven-story North Building, now called the Martin Building, opened in 1971. Its two towers have 24 sides, and more than one million reflective glass tiles designed by Dow Corning cover the exterior.
24sides on the two-towered castle-like exterior
“Art is a treasure, and these thin but jealous walls defend it.”
Gio Ponti, the architect of the 1971 building
Libeskind
None of the 20 planes of the Hamilton Building is parallel to another
The Frederic C. Hamilton Building, designed by Daniel Libeskind, opened on October 7, 2006. It is his first completed building in the United States. One angled element extends 167 feet over the street below.
The collection
The collection holds more than 70,000 works and is known for American Indian art
The Denver Art Museum has an encyclopedic collection of more than 70,000 works. It is known for American Indian art, and the Petrie Institute of Western American Art oversees the museum's Western art collection.
70,000works in the encyclopedic collection
Day 6, afternoon
It comes after Confluence Park.
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