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The Denver Art Museum was founded in 1893 as the Denver Artists’ Club. With an encyclopedic collection of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world, it is one of the largest art museums between the West Coast and Chicago, with global art collections that represent cultures around the world as well as work by artists from Denver and the Rocky Mountain region. Internationally known for its Indigenous Arts of North America collection, the museum also has one of the finest collections of Latin American Art and Art of the Ancient Americas.
Spanish collection
The following 20 Spanish artworks are a selection from the museum's collection.
The Instruction of Christ: Virgin and Child
by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1400–1500
- Medium
- Wood
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of the Charles Bayly Jr. Collection
St. Michael with Dragon
by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1400–1500
- Medium
- Oil paint on panel
- Dimensions
- Image: 59 1/4 x 24 in.; frame: 60 5/8 x 25 1/8 x 2 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of Dr. Rene Spitz
The Annunciation
by Master of Retascón, circa 1410–1452
- Medium
- Tempera paint on panel
- Dimensions
- Image: 41 x 24 in.; frame: 50 x 29.5 x 4 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
The Crucifixion
by Jaime Cirera, circa 1435
- Medium
- Oil paint and tempera paint on panel
- Dimensions
- Image: 34 x 30 in.; frame: 48.5 x 36.25 in
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
The Adoration of the Magi
by Master of the Catholic Kings, circa 1495–1497
- Medium
- Oil paint on panel
- Dimensions
- Image: 59 3/4 x 35 3/4 in.; sight: 59 3/4 x 36 in.; frame: 77 7/8 x 44 1/2 x 4 in.; frame: 76 x 41 x 4.5 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
The Trinity with Saints
by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1560–1600
- Medium
- Gouache on vellum, heightened with gold and gum arabic
- Dimensions
- Frame: 18 x 15 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Funds from Mrs. Miriam McGrath and Departmental Acquisitions Fund
- Notes
Late 16th century
Anna of Austria
by Alonso Sánchez Coello, circa 1578
- Medium
- Oil paint on panel
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.25 x 17.75 in.; framed: 26 1/4 x 22 3/4 in
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Funds from Helen Dill bequest
- Notes
Attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello
Crucifix
by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1600–1700
- Medium
- Polychrome on carved wood
- Dimensions
- 17.75 x 12.75 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Charles Bayly, Jr., Collection at the Denver Art Museum
Martyr
by Francisco de Zurbarán, circa 1636
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Sight: 24 x 15 in.; frame: 31 1/2 x 23 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.
- Notes
By Francisco de Zurbarán and workshop
Portrait of Don Diego Félix de Esquivel y Aldama
by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, circa 1655–1660
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Image: 80 1/2 x 42 in.; frame: 93 x 54 3/8 x 2.5 in:
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Virgin Mary Spinning
by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1700
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of Engracia Freyer Dougherty for the Frank Barrows Freyer Collection at the Denver Art Museum
Man with a Pipe (L'Homme a la pipe)
by Pablo Picasso, circa 1903
- Medium
- Pen and dark brown ink on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 10.25 x 7.5 in.; frame: 15.75 x 12.875 x 1 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Paysage, Horta de Ebro
by Pablo Picasso, 1909
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Image: 20 3/4 x 25 in.; frame: 29 3/4 x 34 x 2 5/8 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: The Charles Francis Hendrie Memorial Collection
Nature Morte
by Pablo Picasso, 1914
- Medium
- Oil paint and graphite on canvas
- Dimensions
- 12 x 15 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of Marion G. Hendrie
Verre sur une table (Glass on Table)
by Juan Gris, 1916
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Image: 16 x 12.625 in.; frame: 25 1/2 x 22 x 2 3/4 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Charles Francis Hendrie Memorial Collection
Nature morte à la bouteille de Bordeaux (Still life with a bottle of Bordeaux)
by Juan Gris, 1919
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Image: 32 x 25 1/2 in.; frame: 40 x 33 1/2 x 4 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of Charles Francis Hendrie Memorial
La Source
by Pablo Picasso, 1921
- Medium
- Drypoint
- Dimensions
- Image: 8 x 10 in.; frame: 14.75 x 16.75 x 0.5 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of Helen Grant
Tête d'homme et objets
by Joan Miró, 1935
- Medium
- Gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.5 x 12 in.; frame: 28 15/16 x 22 15/16 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of Charles Francis Hendrie Memorial
Still Life
by Pablo Picasso, 1937
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Sight: 28 in x 35 1/4 in.; frame: 41 x 48 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Anonymous gift
Tête et Oiseau
by Joan Miró, 1967
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 17 x 9 in. approx.
- Credits
- Denver Art Museum: Gift of Sylvia and Joseph Slifka in honor of Frederick R. and Jan Perry Mayer