Denver Art Museum Reveals 2025 Acquisitions, Including Works by Tishan Hsu, Berthe Morisot, and More

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ntThough she was a prodigious talent, the artistic achievements of sculptor Camille Claudelu2019s artistic achievements were long obscured by her tragic life story: her relationship with Auguste Rodin, her teacher and lover, and her confinement in a mental hospital during the last decades of her life. Conceived after her breakup with Rodin and representing her determination to distinguish her work from his, this intimate sculpture was one of Claudelu2019s few commercially successful pieces. It was ultimately editioned in 65 different versions, including some, like this one, that doubled as electric lamps.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Camille Claudel, Ru00eave au coin du feu</em>(Fireside Dream), conceived 1899u20131905, sand cast by Eugu00e8ne Blot between 1905 and 1937″,”image_credit”:”Collection of the Denver Art Museum.”,”url”:”https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/denver-art-museum-new-acquisitions-camille-claudel-1234777161/”,”image_id”:1234777170,”image”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Claudel_Fireside-Dream-Reve-au-coin-du-feu_1899-1905-copy.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Claudel_Fireside-Dream-Reve-au-coin-du-feu_1899-1905-copy.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Claudel_Fireside-Dream-Reve-au-coin-du-feu_1899-1905-copy.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Claudel_Fireside-Dream-Reve-au-coin-du-feu_1899-1905-copy.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Claudel_Fireside-Dream-Reve-au-coin-du-feu_1899-1905-copy.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Claudel_Fireside-Dream-Reve-au-coin-du-feu_1899-1905-copy.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:960}},”fullWidth”:767,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntThe subject of a 2025 survey at the Denver Art Museum, Tokio Ueyama (1889u20131954) moved to the United States at age 19 and studied fine art in San Francisco, Southern California, and Philadelphia. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was incarcerated with his wife Suye at the Granada Relocation Center (known as Camp Amache to its internees), a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Colorado. Until their release in 1945, Ueyama taught adult art classes to 150 students and continued to make oil paintings, including this sensitive portrait of a woman.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Tokio Ueyama, Untitled (Amache portrait)</em>,nJanuary 17, 1944″,”image_credit”:”Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright u00a9 Estate of Tokio Ueyama.”,”url”:”https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/denver-art-museum-new-acquisitions-camille-claudel-1234777161/”,”image_id”:1234777159,”image”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ueyama_Untitled-Amache-portrait_1944-copy.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ueyama_Untitled-Amache-portrait_1944-copy.jpg?w=208″,”width”:208,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ueyama_Untitled-Amache-portrait_1944-copy.jpg?w=416″,”width”:416,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ueyama_Untitled-Amache-portrait_1944-copy.jpg?w=521″,”width”:521,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ueyama_Untitled-Amache-portrait_1944-copy.jpg?w=666″,”width”:666,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ueyama_Untitled-Amache-portrait_1944-copy.jpg?w=888″,”width”:888,”height”:1024}},”fullWidth”:499,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntAfter encountering European geometric abstraction, Venezuelan-born painter and sculptor Jesu00fas Rafael Soto (1923u20132005) moved to Paris in 1950, living and working there until his death. In France, he became a leading practitioner of Kinetic artu2014art that moves or appears to moveu2014inviting viewers to enter his sculptural works and walk around inside them. Closely related to his kinetic artworks, Sotou2019s paintings likewise depend on the vieweru2019s participation for their effects; this one, for example, appears to pulse and vibrate as one looks at it.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Jesus Rafael Soto, Plata, Negro, y Verde</em>, 1969″,”image_credit”:”Collection of the Denver Art Museum.”,”url”:”https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/denver-art-museum-new-acquisitions-camille-claudel-1234777161/”,”image_id”:1234777176,”image”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Soto_Plata-Negro-y-Verde_1969-copy.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Soto_Plata-Negro-y-Verde_1969-copy.jpg?w=238″,”width”:238,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Soto_Plata-Negro-y-Verde_1969-copy.jpg?w=476″,”width”:476,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Soto_Plata-Negro-y-Verde_1969-copy.jpg?w=595″,”width”:595,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Soto_Plata-Negro-y-Verde_1969-copy.jpg?w=761″,”width”:761,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Soto_Plata-Negro-y-Verde_1969-copy.jpg?w=1015″,”width”:1015,”height”:1024}},”fullWidth”:570,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntIn this wall piece, Guatemalan-born, Los Angeles-based artist Jackie Amu00e9zquita addresses the long destructive effects of banana plantations on the people and ecology of Central America. To make the work, Amu00e9zquita laid bananas on strips of copper, covering the fruit with plastic domes. The decaying bananas corroded the metal, leaving their imprints on its surface, while fruit flies traveled between the domes through plastic straws.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Jackie Amu00e9zquita, el SUDOR de mi GENTE</em> (Nuestro Norte Siempre Series), 2023″,”image_credit”:”Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright u00a9 Jackie Amu00e9zquita.”,”url”:”https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/denver-art-museum-new-acquisitions-camille-claudel-1234777161/”,”image_id”:1234777166,”image”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Amezquita_el-SUDOR-de-mi-GENTE_2023-copy.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Amezquita_el-SUDOR-de-mi-GENTE_2023-copy.jpg?w=193″,”width”:193,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Amezquita_el-SUDOR-de-mi-GENTE_2023-copy.jpg?w=385″,”width”:385,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Amezquita_el-SUDOR-de-mi-GENTE_2023-copy.jpg?w=482″,”width”:482,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Amezquita_el-SUDOR-de-mi-GENTE_2023-copy.jpg?w=616″,”width”:616,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Amezquita_el-SUDOR-de-mi-GENTE_2023-copy.jpg?w=822″,”width”:822,”height”:1024}},”fullWidth”:461,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntSince the 1990s, when he started using emerging software like Photoshop in silk-screened works, American artist Tishan Hsu has imagined how digital technologies might transform our visual world, our consciousness, and even our bodies. Since then, rapid advances in computer imaging and 3-D printing have afforded the artist the tools he needed to produce hybrid pieces like this one, which combines silicone protuberances and an enveloping digital u201cskin.u201d</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Tishan Hsu, mammal-screen-green-1</em>, 2024″,”image_credit”:”Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright u00a9 Tishan Hsu. “,”url”:”https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/denver-art-museum-new-acquisitions-camille-claudel-1234777161/”,”image_id”:1234777173,”image”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Hsu_mammal-screen-green-1_2024-copy-1.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Hsu_mammal-screen-green-1_2024-copy-1.jpg?w=289″,”width”:289,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Hsu_mammal-screen-green-1_2024-copy-1.jpg?w=578″,”width”:578,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Hsu_mammal-screen-green-1_2024-copy-1.jpg?w=723″,”width”:723,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Hsu_mammal-screen-green-1_2024-copy-1.jpg?w=925″,”width”:925,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Hsu_mammal-screen-green-1_2024-copy-1.jpg?w=1234″,”width”:1234,”height”:1024}},”fullWidth”:693,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntOf Sicangu Lakota, German, and Welsh ancestry, Dyani White Hawk is known for beaded sculptures and paintings that highlight the role Native American art has played in the history of abstraction, a history that until recently was discussed as the province of white artists. Her use of beadwork puts particular emphasis Native women, whose artistry has often been downplayed in the Western canon. Her ten-foot-high columnar sculpture Visiting</em>, composed of strips of beadwork, pays tribute to the vertical sculptures of George Morrison (Grand Portage Ojibwe, 1919u20132000) and Jim Denomie (Ojibwe, Lac Courte Oreilles Band, 1955u20132022).</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Dyani White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota), Visiting</em>, 2024″,”image_credit”:”Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright u00a9 Dyani White Hawk.”,”url”:”https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/denver-art-museum-new-acquisitions-camille-claudel-1234777161/”,”image_id”:1234777182,”image”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/White-Hawk_Visiting_2024-copy.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/White-Hawk_Visiting_2024-copy.jpg?w=106″,”width”:106,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/White-Hawk_Visiting_2024-copy.jpg?w=211″,”width”:211,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/White-Hawk_Visiting_2024-copy.jpg?w=264″,”width”:264,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/White-Hawk_Visiting_2024-copy.jpg?w=338″,”width”:338,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/White-Hawk_Visiting_2024-copy.jpg?w=451″,”width”:451,”height”:1024}},”fullWidth”:253,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null}],”galleryCount”:”7″,”galleryID”:”1234777161″,”previousPageLink”:””,”nextPageLink”:””,”template”:”item-featured-image”,”ordering”:””,”galleryTitle”:”Denver Art Museum Reveals 2025 Acquisitions, Including Works by Tishan Hsu, Berthe Morisot, and More”,”isList”:”1″,”logo”:[],”i10n”:{“backToArticle”:”Back to Article”,”backToAllGalleries”:”Back to All Galleries”,”backToReview”:”Back to Review”,”backToAllReviews”:”Back to All Reviews”,”thumbnail”:”Thumbnails”,”nextSlide”:”Next Slide”,”prevSlide”:”Previous Slide”,”skipAd”:”Skip Ad”,”skipIn”:”Skip In”,”of”:”of”,”missingSomething”:”You’re missing something!”,”subscribeNow”:”Subscribe Now”,”next”:”Next”,”nextGallery”:”Next Gallery”,”closeThisMessage”:”Close this message”,”closeModal”:”Close Modal”,”closeGallery”:”Close Gallery”,”startSlideShow”:”Start Slideshow”,”lightBox”:”Lightbox”,”scrollUp”:”Scroll Up”,”scrollDown”:”Scroll Down”,”look”:”Look”,”readMore”:”Read More”,”showLess”:”Show Less”,”vertical”:{“photo”:”Photo”}},”ads”:{“rightRailGallery”:{“html”:”t

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Maynard Dixon, Cloud World, 1925

Collection of the Denver Art Museum.

The Denver Art Museum (DAM) in Colorado announced this week that it acquired 830 works across all 11 of its curatorial departments in roughly the last year, with an emphasis on further diversifying its collection.

Made between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025, DAM’s contemporary art acquisitions included Tishan Hsu’s mammal-screen-green-1 (2024) for the Modern and Contemporary Art Department and Jackie Amézquita’s el SUDOR de mi GENTE (2023) for the Mayer Center for Ancient and Latin American Art, as well as works artists who had solo exhibitions at the museum in 2025 such as Dawoud Bey and Kent Monkman.

The museum also acquired two important historical pieces by women: Berthe Morisot’s painting La Leçon au jardin (The Lesson in the Garden), from 1886, which was already on view but was only formally accessioned in 2025, and a rare version of Camille Claudel’s sculpture Rêve au coin du feu (Fireside Dream), which was conceived 1899 between 1905.

Meanwhile, DAM expanded its photography collection by 133 works, among them seven 20-by-24-inch Polaroid photographs by modernist photographer and theoretician György Kepes, and its Architecture & Design department added 35 new objects, including two contemporary furniture pieces by women that incorporate abstracted cultural symbols into their design: a 2023 chair by Monica Curiel that echoes the shapes of Mexican mariachi string instruments, and a screen by Kim Mupangilaï from the same year that references Central African currency tools.

Other notable acquisitions included a 1969 painting by Venezuelan-born Op artist Jesús Rafael Soto for the institution’s Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art department; a ca. 1975–1980 bamboo tray, one of 28 pieces of bamboo art gifted to the museum, by Japanese master Iizuka Shōkansai for its Arts of Asia collection; and a 1925 painting by western landscape artist Maynard Dixon for the Petrie Institute of Western American Art.

Below, a look at seven newly acquired works by the Denver Art Museum.

Mori Tetsuzan, Tigers in Landscape and Birds, late 1700s–mid-1800s

Image Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum.

Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841) was born in Osaka and adopted by his uncle Mori Sosen, a famed painter of animals, to continue Sosen’s artistic lineage. Likely at his uncle’s urging, Mori later studied with Maruyama Ōkyo, founder of the naturalistic school that bears his name; appointed as an official painter for the Kumamoto domain, Mori Tetsuzan brought the Maruyama style to the Kanto region. Mori is best known for combining realism with decorativeness, as in this set of four sliding doors with a rendering of two tigers on one side and a painting of birds on the other.

Camille Claudel (1864–1943),Rêve au coin du feu (Fireside Dream), conceived 1899–1905

Image Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum.

Though she was a prodigious talent, the artistic achievements of sculptor Camille Claudel’s artistic achievements were long obscured by her tragic life story: her relationship with Auguste Rodin, her teacher and lover, and her confinement in a mental hospital during the last decades of her life. Conceived after her breakup with Rodin and representing her determination to distinguish her work from his, this intimate sculpture was one of Claudel’s few commercially successful pieces. It was ultimately editioned in 65 different versions, including some, like this one, that doubled as electric lamps.

Tokio Ueyama, Untitled (Amache portrait), January 17, 1944

Image Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright © Estate of Tokio Ueyama.

The subject of a 2025 survey at the Denver Art Museum, Tokio Ueyama (1889–1954) moved to the United States at age 19 and studied fine art in San Francisco, Southern California, and Philadelphia. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was incarcerated with his wife Suye at the Granada Relocation Center (known as Camp Amache to its internees), a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Colorado. Until their release in 1945, Ueyama taught adult art classes to 150 students and continued to make oil paintings, including this sensitive portrait of a woman.

Jesus Rafael Soto, Plata, Negro, y Verde, 1969

Image Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum.

After encountering European geometric abstraction, Venezuelan-born painter and sculptor Jesús Rafael Soto (1923–2005) moved to Paris in 1950, living and working there until his death. In France, he became a leading practitioner of Kinetic art—art that moves or appears to move—inviting viewers to enter his sculptural works and walk around inside them. Closely related to his kinetic artworks, Soto’s paintings likewise depend on the viewer’s participation for their effects; this one, for example, appears to pulse and vibrate as one looks at it.

Jackie Amézquita, el SUDOR de mi GENTE (Nuestro Norte Siempre Series), 2023

Image Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright © Jackie Amézquita.

In this wall piece, Guatemalan-born, Los Angeles-based artist Jackie Amézquita addresses the long destructive effects of banana plantations on the people and ecology of Central America. To make the work, Amézquita laid bananas on strips of copper, covering the fruit with plastic domes. The decaying bananas corroded the metal, leaving their imprints on its surface, while fruit flies traveled between the domes through plastic straws.

Tishan Hsu, mammal-screen-green-1, 2024

Image Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright © Tishan Hsu.

Since the 1990s, when he started using emerging software like Photoshop in silk-screened works, American artist Tishan Hsu has imagined how digital technologies might transform our visual world, our consciousness, and even our bodies. Since then, rapid advances in computer imaging and 3-D printing have afforded the artist the tools he needed to produce hybrid pieces like this one, which combines silicone protuberances and an enveloping digital “skin.”

Dyani White Hawk, Visiting, 2024

Image Credit: Collection of the Denver Art Museum. Artwork copyright © Dyani White Hawk.

Of Sicangu Lakota, German, and Welsh ancestry, Dyani White Hawk is known for beaded sculptures and paintings that highlight the role Native American art has played in the history of abstraction, a history that until recently was discussed as the province of white artists. Her use of beadwork puts particular emphasis Native women, whose artistry has often been downplayed in the Western canon. Her ten-foot-high columnar sculpture Visiting, composed of strips of beadwork, pays tribute to the vertical sculptures of George Morrison (Grand Portage Ojibwe, 1919–2000) and Jim Denomie (Ojibwe, Lac Courte Oreilles Band, 1955–2022).

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