Title: Promenade

Artist: Ann Weber

Description: The pieces represent two people on a walk, “promenading” through Skyline Park. Artist Ann Weber wanted the sculpture to be larger than life for impact, but close enough to...

Title: Untitled

Artist: Wilbert Verhelst

Description: The sculpture was created as part of the June 1968 Denver Sculpture Symposium, in which nine artists took part. The symposium was sponsored by a non-profit organization ""Art For...

Title: 222.5º Arc x 5

Artist: Bernar Venet

Description: “222.5° Arc x 5” is tightly geometric in form (unlike some of Venet’s other pieces) and is made of COR-TEN steel. The piece was donated to the City and...

Title: Indeterminate Line

Artist: Bernar Venet

Description: "Indeterminate Line" is a large, elegant twenty-ton scribble depicting an oval that's been rendered organic and geometric at the same time. Venet, who was born in France, has lived...

Title: Visions Born by This River

Artist: Robert Tully

Description: Five elements make up this sculpture next to the South Platte River near Denver's founding site. A book sculpture near a playground has quotes from the mid 1800s about...

Title: Joseph Addison Thatcher Memorial Fountain

Artist: Lorado Taft

Description: Joseph Addison Thatcher was a very successful banker in Colorado's early history. He was President of First National Bank of Central City, from 1874 to 1880. In 1884 he...

Title: Camarasaurus and Ceratosaurus

Artist: Gary Staab

Description: Situated in the canyon-like area next to the elevators in the of Nature & Science’s parking garage, “Camarasaurus” and “Ceratosaurus” stage an unexpected prehistoric scene. The artist created a...

Title: A Rolling Historical Landscape

Artist: Edward J. Ruscha

Description: A rolling historical landscape" of Colorado and the West is how artist Edward Ruscha describes his panoramic artwork for the Central Library. The work unfolds in epic fashion on...

Title: Dominion

Artist: Evelyn Rosenberg

Description: "Dominion" is an episodic piece on a 200 ft long facade on the National Western Stock Show Building. The piece includes flocks of sheep, pigs, goats, various farmhands, cows,...

Title: March of Progress

Artist: Andrew Reid

Description: Andrew Reid achieved renown as a graphic artist in his native New Zealand and New York before moving to Miami in 1991. Since that time he has explored a...

Title: Firehouse

Artist: Dennis Oppenheim

Description: "Fire House" depicts a house held aloft by ladders; a lighting system conveys the idea that it's on fire. The conflagration of imagery is unusual, but perfect for such...

Title: Building Blocks

Artist: Robert Murase

Description: Artist Robert Murase was asked to consider the Park entrance to the Wellington Webb building off of Colfax. Nestled under the trees and engaging the pedestrians along the park...

Title: ENGI

Artist: Tatsuo Miyajima

Description: The work, ‘ENGI’, was conceived specifically for the Denver Art Museum’s four-story atrium. Central to Tatsuo Miyajima's vision was the direct involvement of the people of Denver, making it...

Title: National Velvet

Artist: John McEnroe

Description: "National Velvet" provides downtown Denver with a striking new work of art that continues the artist’s trademark unorthodox approach to materials, form and contemporary ideas. Utilizing sand as the...

Title: Life of the Mind

Artist: John McEnroe

Description: John McEnroe’s ideas about the artworks for the Omar D. Blair Edison Charter School take into account the atmosphere of learning and discovery built into it. The facility provided...

Title: Model State

Artist: John McEnroe

Description: “Model State: A Local Cosmology” consists of three wall mounted constructions, each measuring 16’x24’x8’. The construct of each piece is similar to that of a snap-apart sprue system found...

Title: Colorado Pioneers

Artist: William Mathews

Description: Colorado Pioneers is a series of twelve large original watercolor paintings of anonymous Colorado historical pioneer figures. The paintings convey a thematic viewpoint of the various people and cultures...

Title: Confluent People

Artist: Emanuel Martinez

Description: This 10,000 square foot mural captures the confluence of people who helped build Denver into the city that it is today.

Title: Eyes on the Park

Artist: Emanuel Martinez

Description: Alternate title: Shades. "Eyes on the Park" is a bold reflection of the surrounded diverse community. Represented are four heads that depict Asian, black, white, and Latino people who...

Title: Tools

Artist: Donald Lipski

Description: Artist, Donald Lipski, was selected to create a work of art to grace the sandstone wall at the back of the atrium. Lipski was asked to look at the...

Title: The Yearling

Artist: Donald Lipski

Description: The red chair is 21 feet tall and ten feet wide, and the pinto pony is six feet tall at the ears. The scale of this work is meant...

Title: Dennis Sullivan Gateway: Agriculture & Mining

Artist: Leo Lentelli

Description: The Gateway honors banker Dennis Sullivan and was built in 1917. The gateways sports two pillars atop of which statues depicting Mining and Agriculture are mounted. "Agriculture" is the...

Title: Aqua Portal

Artist: Don Lawler and Meg White

Description: "Aqua Portal" is a free-standing gateway consisting of two monumental blocks of limestone, each measuring 10’ high, 5’ wide and 3’ thick. The sculptures show a male and female...

Title: Wynken, Blynken & Nod

Artist: Mabel Landrum Torrey

Description: This is a statue to honor Wynken, Blynken and Nod, a memorial to Denver poet Eugene Field who on March 9, 1889, wrote ""Dutch Lullaby"" depicting three children who...

Title: Untitled

Artist: Roger Kotoske

Description: This piece is an abstract sculpture composed of three red diamond shapes, set upright on their pointed tips. They are arranged in a triangle and touch on the inside...

Title: Civic Source Point

Artist: Larry Kirkland

Description: Inside the main Civic Center building “Civic Source Point” is made of gilded aluminum rings which can be seen through the glass façade when approaching the building. Hung below...

Title: East 2 West Source Point

Artist: Larry Kirkland

Description: The sculpture represents a double-headed Janus of Greek mythology. The heads are carved from bardiglio, a richly veined gray marble, from Carrara, Italy. In the center space between the...

Title: Forgotten Landscape

Artist: Shannon Kelly

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Title: Family Pillar

Artist: Lisa Kaslow

Description: Three brightly colored geometric people standing in a totem-like arrangement.

Title: Beaumont Fountain

Artist: William F. Joseph

Description: The sculpture was one of 17 works commissioned to beautify downtown Denver traffic islands. The idea for the project originated in Nov. 1971 at meetings with The Park People...

Title: Tail Spin

Artist: Erick Johnson

Description: The piece includes metal fabricated constructions and neon banding of the architecture. The metal structures are positioned in and around the terraced entry way in such a way that...

Title: Mustang

Artist: Luis Jimenez

Description: The American sculptor, Luis Jimenez, worked for 15 years to create the horse, which he simply named “Mustang”. Yet, he did not live to see it installed this year...

Title: Eagle Dancer

Artist: Jerry Jaramillo

Description:

Title: Aqua Golf

Artist: Conor Hollis

Description: The piece consist of six whimsical sculptures. Inspired by the area, elements from the history of the site are presented throughout the works. These elements include, train wheels that...

Title: Channeled Energy Flow

Artist: Caspar Henselmann

Description: The artist describes the piece as a metaphor of society—it starts energetic and turbulent, like a river gushing from its mountain springs, and, as it meanders through the plains,...

Title: Platte Valley Time Vanes

Artist: David Griggs

Description: "Platte Valley Time Vanes" consists of 6 site responsive entry monuments on a primary thoroughfare into downtown Denver. Just as wind vanes tell the direction of the wind, these...

Title: Sea Lions Fountain

Artist: Robert Garrison

Description: "Sea Lions Fountain" was designed by sculptor Robert Garrison in 1922 as part of the Voorhies Memorial. John E. Voorhies was a banker who made his wealth in the...

Title: Maria Mosina and Igor Vassine

Artist: John DeAndrea

Description: Maria Mosina and Igor Vassine is a unique composition using the principal dancers Maria Mosina and Igor Vassine of the Colorado Ballet as models. The dancers are cast from...

Title: Aerial

Artist: John Davis

Description: "Aerial" is a two-part sculpture, made of steel and concrete, for Denver Skatepark. The artist’s vision for the piece was to create a manifestation of the athletic movements of...

Title: Untitled

Artist: Gerald Cross

Description: The artist, Gerald Cross, joined the CU-Boulder faculty in 1960, as an instructor of design in the fine arts, architecture and environmental design departments. In 1966, he was named...

Title: Parked Perspectives

Artist: Susan Cooper

Description: "Parked Perspectives" is an installation designed to provide participation in a visual perception of recreation. While the first response to the piece is notably visual, by interacting with it...

Title: Silver Sky

Artist: Dayton Claudio

Description: "Silver Sky" is a series of panels, each depicting a fragment of athletic motion. The panels have been constructed and placed in diminished sizes and spaces leading toward the...

Title: Camino

Artist: Michael Clapper

Description: The concept for Camino originated from a common fact shared by two agencies that are housed within the same facility along Park Avenue in Denver, Colorado. That being that...

Title: Tradition

Artist: Joseph Cipri

Description: "Tradition" is a two-subject bronze sculpture. It includes a life-size firefighter standing proudly with one of the Denver Fire Department’s beloved comrades, 'Chief', the last firehouse dog to ride...

Title: Antique Gold and Pale Aquamarine Chandelier

Artist: Dale Chihuly

Description: The piece, donated by Jeremy and Susan Shamos and Jerry and Debi Tepper, was displayed in the Chihuly exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center before coming to...

Title: Good Fortune is Here to Stay

Artist: Yuan Xiao Ceng

Description: The sculpture celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Denver- Kunming Sister City relationship. It portrays a family of three peacocks, happy to be together. Beautiful flowing lines and rhythm...

Title: Wood Water Rock

Artist: Trine Bumiller

Description: “Wood Water Rock” is made of eighteen separate wood panels painted in oils. Trine Bumiller uses the old technique of oil glazing, applying as many as forty-five layers of...

Title: Park and Garden Benches

Artist: Carolyn Braaksma

Description: Sculptured benches in Northeast Community Park with animal feet

Title: “Man” and “Woman”

Artist: Fernando Botero

Description: Near the Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre, Botero’s "Man" and "Woman" have watched over the crowds of theatre goers since 1998. These 13-foot-tall bronze sculptures are perfect examples of Botero’s...

Title: Dancers

Artist: Jonathan Borofsky

Description: "Dancers" is a 25-ton steel and fiberglass sculpture consisting of two tall white figures dancing. Mounted around the circular base of the sculpture are 5 speakers, which continuously play...

Title: Children’s Fountain

Artist: Max Blondet

Description: The sculpture was created in 1913 by the German artist Max Blondet working in Paris. During the 1940s, the fountain was defaced and damaged by Anti-German citizens. The Children's...

Title: The Rehearsal

Artist: Stephen Batura

Description: For Rehearsal, the artist Stephen Batura's task was to create a mural that would provide an appropriate transition from the lobby of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House to the...

Title: Benedict Fountain

Artist: Maurice Bardin

Description: Four lions sit in a circle at the bottom of the fountain facing out. The front half of each lion is shown. Two basins are located above the lions,...

Title: Jazz

Artist: Barbara Baer

Description: "Jazz" was commissioned as the inaugural artwork to revitalize an urban sculpture park that has been a Denver landmark for 30 years. The new work combines 22 rolled steel...

Title: Full Play

Artist: Barbara Baer

Description: “Full Play” is intended to welcome and delight the diverse visitors and staff who use the Center. As viewers move through the lobby, curving metal bands display cut-outs of...

Title: Field Report

Artist: Robin Ault

Description: These paintings attempt to capture the energy that exists when a building is under construction, as opposed to when it is complete, by freezing moments in time and exposing...

Title: I See What You Mean

Artist: Lawrence Argent

Description: "The artist has described I See What You Mean as a stylized representation of native fauna. As the bear peeks inside the enormous facility at the conventioneers, displacement and...

Title: Untitled

Artist: Steve Altman

Description: Altman’s “glazed” abstractions serve to complement a structure that emphasizes modern elements, while co-existing with Colorado’s natural beauty. The artist’s work can be seen as representing elements found in...

Title: Clear Concept

Artist: Sherry Allen

Description: "Clear Concept" is a lively mural that adorns the game room wall.

Title: King and Queen

Artist: Brian Swanson

Description: Two statues of chess pieces double as benches and game tables. The sculptures are composed of found objects combined with stock steel shapes such as bar, sheet and woven...

Title: Welcome

Artist: Douglas Kornfeld

Description: "Welcome" - depicting two hands reaching out to shake hands - is made up of more than 3400 handmade tiles. Each tile has an individual figure glazed onto its...

Title: Seven Sisters

Artist: David Griggs

Description: Seven Sisters is a site-responsive installation designed for the experience of the people who use it. This monumental design serves as a gateway and landmark for a new Light...

Title: Winter Crossing

Artist: Stephen Batura

Description: The mural is a representation of a steam freighter crossing a viaduct-type bridge in winter. Its muted colors of green, blue and yellow have been coordinated to fit in...

Title: Doing the Denver Dance

Artist: Dwight Atkinson

Description: An interactive light installation that uses sensors and lights to help visitors perform their own "Denver Dance". As a dancer operates the system, a variety of illustrations and slogans...

Title: Untitled

Artist: Allen True

Description: "Allen Tupper True is regarded as one of Colorado's premier native-born artists, and his art is as complex as it is enduring. He strived to 'see and feel the...

Title: Mona Lisa

Artist: Stefano Castronovo

Description: A portrait of Mona Lisa adorns the exterior of Mona's Restaurant. The restaurant is named after the mural, painted by New York artist Stefano Castronovo, when the space was...

Title: Untitled

Artist: Sol LeWitt

Description: Fabricated out of squares of natural cleft, gray slate, "Irregular Form" is mounted parallel to the deep black granite wall behind it. The structure's undulating contour contrasts with its...

Title: Federal Services

Artist: Edgar Britton

Description: Located within the landscaped plaza, "Federal Services" is a column that resembles a totem pole and contains carvings inspired by Native American art. The cylinder originally acted as a...

Title: Chess Tables

Artist: Doug Eichelberger

Description: The piece is a series of tables with ceramic tiled chessboards on both ends. A concrete barrier, shaped as the upper-half of a human body, separates the chessboards. Colorful...

Title: Red Rocks, Early Spring

Artist: Christy Wyckoff

Description: "Red Rocks, Early Spring" depicts the massive red rocks rising from the light green foothills. Just behind the cliffs are snow covered hills and an impending spring storm.

Title: River Glyph

Artist: Andrew Dufford

Description: "River Glyph" is a circular patterned fish symbol sandblasted in the concrete.

Title: Tulga

Artist: Tsogo Mijid

Description: A "Tulga" is an open fireplace and is the most esteemed piece of a Mongolian nomad household. In addition to being a symbol of warmth and comfort, the Tulga...

Title: La Familia Cosmica

Artist: Jerry Jaramillo

Description: "La Familia Cosmica" is a dark and spacey mural painted on part of two walls around the swimming pool. It shows the ocean stretching far into the celestial space.

Title: Brown Flowers, the Mestizo People

Artist: Carlota Espinoza

Description: "Brown Flowers, the Mestizo People" celebrates cultural heritage, representing people, buildings, environments and values of great importance to the Mestizo people.

Title: Pasado, Presente, Futuro

Artist: Carlota Espinoza

Description: "Pasado, Presente, Futuro" blends myth and reality, dream and truth. It is a story of a people: Chicano! It is a story of a people's romance with history, from...

Title: Water Friends & At Play

Artist: Julie Burrington

Description: "At Play" and "Water Friends" are a group of amusing murals at the Congress Park pool. They depict children enjoying water and field sports. "Water Friends" is 8 feet...

Title: Colorado Vacationland

Artist: Gary Sweeney

Description: "Colorado Vacationland" is a photographic installation that pokes a little fun at Denver's tourists. Regardless, they get a kick out of it.

Title: There is No Frigate Like a Book

Artist: Mare Woodson

Description: Inspiration for this painting came from the poem by Emily Dickinson: "There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away / Nor any Coursers like...

Title: Lost Borders

Artist: Sherry Wiggins

Description: Lost Borders is a wetland park and sculpture garden located along the urban waterway of Cherry Creek in Denver, Colorado. This public art project connects the pedestrian creek path,...

Title: Stimuli

Artist: Christopher Weed

Description: Artist Christopher Weed's "Stimuli" consists of 16 larger than life, 18 inch diameter, brightly colored spheres that resemble gumballs in color and shape. They flow in all directions throughout...

Title: Mayor Robert Speer

Artist: Thomas Jay Warren

Description: Mayor Robert Speer was elected mayor three times and served two four year terms. He died from pneumonia halfway through his third term. Speer was an adherent to the...

Title: African American Spirit of the West

Artist: Thomas Jay Warren

Description: Thomas Jay Warren was born in Mississippi in 1958 and grew up in the Mississippi Delta. He studied sculpture as a Presidential Scholar at Mississippi College, graduating with Special...

Title: Valedictorian

Artist: Abe Vigil

Description: "Valedictorian", also known as "Redwood", is an abstract tree form constructed of wood and metal. The piece is composed of two fan-like shapes made from wood slats bolted to...

Title: Drums of Peace and Dignity

Artist: Nick Vigil

Description: "Drums of Piece and Dignity" - a tower of colorfully painted drums - is carved from a cottonwood log by a chainsaw and chisel. The piece, by Nick Vigil,...

Title: Villa Park Gateway

Artist: Gary Sweeney

Description: "Villa Park Gateway" welcomes residents and passersby's into the neighborhood of Villa Park. The gateway displays imagery of neighborhood bungalow homes, rolling hills, trees, a creek and flowers, with...

Title: Gratis & Aegis

Artist: Jonathan Stiles

Description: "Gratis" is designed to remember and celebrate those who paid the ultimate price protecting the innocent. It is a rising arc aiming skyward made of aluminum. There is an...

Title: Robert Burns Memorial

Artist: Grant Stevenson

Description: The Burns Memorial in Denver's City Park is a portrait of poet Robert Burns. He is seen standing, wearing a long tail coat, vest, and knickers with knee-high socks....

Title: Ascent

Artist: Bill Starke

Description: The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs commissioned twelve artists to each do an artwork for one of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building's elevator landings. The pieces are intended...

Title: Untitled

Artist: Wang Po Shu

Description: Two interlocking wooden gateways are installed at the path to the library. One is aligned with the geological north south through Denver, and the other is oriented 19.3 degrees...

Title: Swimming under the Trees & Autumn Leaves

Artist: Shan Shan Sheng

Description: The artwork echoes the atmosphere of the recreation center and creates an interaction of shape, color and light. The contemporary sculpture medium of cold casting glass is an innovative...

Title: Come On In!

Artist: Jim Sale

Description: "Come On In!" consists of an array of backlit photographs in the vestibule of the Washington Park Recreation Center entryway. These photos are held together by lines of light...

Title: Grand Poobah and Office Fairy Cut Through Red Tape

Artist: Daniel Salazar

Description: The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs commissioned twelve artists to each do an artwork for one of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building's elevator landings. The pieces are intended...

Title: Westwood Renaissance

Artist: Daniel Salazar

Description: For "Westwood Renaissance" artist Daniel Salazar photographed the interior of the Colorado State Capitol dome and people from the Westwood neighborhood to create a photomural using the latest in...

Title: At the Library

Artist: Barry Rose

Description: In Barry Rose's words: "At the Library" was created with students at Cole Junior High School. Each student sculpted a library book. I filled in with enough to make...

Title: Creek Front

Artist: Barry Rose

Description: "Creekfront" is a series of terracotta plaques, featuring the Creekfront logo, which are placed in pillars and bollards along the Cherry Creek Trail at Creekfront Park. The tiles are...

Title: Colorado Panorama: A People’s History

Artist: Barbara Jo Revelle

Description: The 600-foot long mosaic consists of thousands of gray-toned tiles arranged to represent the faces and activities of people important to Colorado - including politicians, farmers, explorers, and activists....

Title: Great Hall Floor

Artist: Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

Description: The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs commissioned twelve artists to each do an artwork for one of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building's elevator landings. The pieces are intended...

Title: On The War Trail

Artist: Alexander Phimister Proctor

Description: The sculpture represents an American Indian, mounted atop a horse, brandishing a spear. The sculpture is bronze with a Colorado granite or Turkey Creek sandstone base. Models for the...

Title: Bronco Buster

Artist: Alexander Phimister Proctor

Description: The original plaster was created for the Chicago exhibition of 1893 and was donated to Denver, eventually deteriorating. Proctor was later commissioned to do another sculpture in bronze. The...

Title: Hungarian Freedom Monument

Artist: Zoltan & Steve Popovits

Description: A bronze figure of a male youth is depicted breaking through an iron curtain. His head is turned to the proper right, his arm is extended, and his proper...