DAM, the Denver Museum of Art, is showcasing America’s “West” and how it is presented by American artists.

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Charles M. Russell, (1864-1926) Charles Deas (1818-1867), N.C. Wyeth 1882-1945) and others painted Cowboys, Indians, gunslingers, landscapes and legendary ‘Rocky Mountain Men” as a way to immortalize not only our past, but also our last frontier.

DAM, Denver Museum of Art until September 2009

Image:

“Gunfight, 1916 – N.C.Wyeth