The Denver Art Museum in Colorado announced this week that it acquired more than 750 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, the acquisitions included Tishan Hsu’s mammal-screen-green-1 (2024) and Jackie Amézquita’s el SUDOR de mi GENTE (2023), 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, the museum 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 and 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 museum’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.
Below, a look at seven newly acquired works by the Denver Art Museum.
