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LA Times on "One-Artist Museums" |
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Local News
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
 Here in Denver, artist Clyfford Still is on schedule to be added to the international pantheon of "One-Artist Museums": institutions whose core mission is to archive the life's work of a single artist. Last week I was ruminating over the more famous US institutions focusing on a single artist, and one of the first to come to mind was Denver's excellent Kirkland Museum (focusing on the work and influences of Denver artist Vance Kirkland), just a few blocks from the DAM and a valuable addition to the local art scene.
Vance aside, the LA Times helped further jog my memory with the recent article "For one-artist museums, fueling the buzz is a fine art" (August 5th 2007), which highlights several museums dedicated to solo artists including Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol, and offers some insight into the ins and outs of running and marketing the institutions, as well as some info on the new Clyfford Still museum coming to Denver in 2010. - KLH
From the article:
Many one-artist museums host occasional exhibitions of works by other artists. But that won't happen at the Clyfford Still Museum, expected to open in 2010 in Denver. Still, an Abstract Expressionist painter who maintained extraordinarily strict control of his work during his lifetime, made provisions to bequeath his estate -- including most of his paintings -- to a city that would build a museum exclusively devoted to his art.
Photo of the interior of the "Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art"
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