Throughout the past year, the Denver Art Museum has broadened its permanent collection across the institution’s 10 curatorial departments. Among these acquisitions is a monumental 8-by-6-foot beaded work by Kiowa artist Teri Greeves titled Sons of the Sun. Greeves “used plant material from the Northern and Southern Plains regions of what is today the United States to hand-dye the background composition of the piece. She then beaded imagery of the Half Boys—important protagonists and holy beings in Kiowa storytelling—their Kiowa mother and their father the Sun,” the museum notes. The work is currently on view in the exhibition Sustained! The Persistent Genius of Indigenous Art, which celebrates Indigenous contributions to the arts and the museum over the past 100 years.
Teri Greeves (Kiowa), Sons of the Sun, 2023, beads, raw silk and dye on canvas, 96 x 72”. Denver Art Museum. Purchased with the Nancy Blomberg Acquisitions Fund for Native American Art, 2023.777A-E. © Teri Greeves.
The Native Arts department at DAM also acquired a painting by Fritz Scholder titled Deco Indian that had been in a private collection since the 1970s, unseen by the public. His reverse-image lithograph based on this painting is a widely known work by the artist. This acquisition gives Native American art enthusiasts a chance to glimpse the original. —
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