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

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.

Dyani White Hawk, Visiting, 2024

 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).