Throughout the summer of 2014, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will play host to The American West in Bronze, an exhibit featuring sculptures by Charles M. Russell, Hermon Atkins MacNeil, Frederic Remington, Paul Manship, and other artists. Located on the first floor of the Hamilton Building, the exhibit represents the first full-scale collection of western bronzes from the mid 1800s and the early 1900s. The American West in Bronze features a broad range of interpretations of life in the Old West.

American West in Bronze features a broad range of interpretations of life in the Old West. Many of the pieces depict classic images from the Western era, including cowboys, Native Americans, horses, pioneers, and buffaloes.

The exhibit is co-curated by Thomas Smith, the director of DAM’s Institute of Western American Art, and Thayer Tolles, a prominent curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. After leaving Denver at the end of August 2014, the exhibit will travel to museums in New York City and China’s Nanjing Museum.