Collier’s Weekly used N.C. Wyeth's "The Lady Wins" in December 1915 to illustrate a story called “What Happened at El Rancho Verde” by Vingie E. Roe. Wyeth later gifted the painting to his former art student turned son-in-law, Peter Hurd. (The American Museum of Western Art, The Anschutz Collection)

The works collected at the American Museum of Western Art, also known as the Anschutz Collection after Denver businessman Philip Anschutz, range from Albert Bierstadt’s 1870 painting of “Wind River, Wyoming” to Edward Hopper’s “Mount Moran,” painted in the late 1940s. Charles Marion Russell and Frederic Remington are represented, and so are Georgia O’Keefe and Maxfield Parrish. And that’s just scratching the surface. Each of the museum’s three floors features walls full of works in a salon-style display. There’s also an actual salon outfitted in period furniture, and more art facing Tremont Place in Denver.

American Museum of Western Art

1727 Tremont Pl, Denver, CO 80202, USA (39.74479, -104.988128)
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