NY Times spotlights DAM Impressionist gift

The New York Times ArtsBeat blog covered the Impressionist collection worth $100 million Frederic C. Hamilton recently donated to the Denver Art Museum.

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The works include van Gogh’s 1887 "Edge of a Wheat Field With Poppies," which will be the first van Gogh to enter the museum's collection. Besides European works, the donation also includes pieces by major American Impressionists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase. The gift has "forever changed the museum's ability to deliver world-class exhibitions and programs," said Christoph Heinrich, the museum’s director, and it transforms the museum's holdings of Impressionism into one of the most important in the West.

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