Colorado History Museum
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| Mountain Telephone Construction, Study for Denver Telephone Building Mural, 1927, Courtesy of Joan True McKibben. |
 Allen True's West
Open
through March 28, 2010
The Colorado History Museum, Denver Art Museum, and the Denver Public Library join forces to tell the story of one of Colorado’s favorite artists. Of the three distinct periods that make up the career of Allen True, the Colorado History Museum will present as their exhibit component the last and longest phase: his work as a muralist. Spanning the years from 1912 to early 1950, True’s work as a muralist was highly respected and extremely varied. The artist had the good fortune to study in England with British muralist Frank Brangwyn, and later worked on several of Brangwyn’s public projects, including the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Eventually True received many important public commissions of his own ranging from the stunning series called Indian Memories for the Colorado National Bank and several branches of the DPL to the state capitols of
Colorado, Wyoming and Missouri. Click here for more information.
Free Admission!
March 29, 2010, the museum will close to the public in preparation for the move to the new History Colorado Center, one block south of the current museum location. The permanent exhibitions and collections at the Colorado History Museum’s are currently under a phased deconstruction schedule. The museum will remain open to visitors and private parties until the closing of the final exhibition, Allen True’s West, on March 28, 2010.
During this time, admission to the Colorado History Museum will be FREE, and the museum will remain open during normal business hours. |
