DENVER, COLORADO.- From sunset to full moon, and warm summer evenings to crisp winter nights, Frederic Remington captures the essence of evening in his nocturnal paintings, 25 of which will be on view at the Denver Art Museum in Frederic Remington: The Color of Night opening December 13.  His nocturnes depict scenes of life on the plains -- from cavalry officers and their horses to cowboys and American Indians.  These paintings were done between 1900 and 1909, late in his life, and are said to be some of Remington’s most innovative work.  This is the first exhibition to focus entirely on Remington’s nighttime paintings, which will be on display through March 14, 2004.  Denver is the final stop in this three-city exhibition tour, which was organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, in association with Gilcrease Museum. 

Reading children a bedtime story, baking blueberry muffins, ice skating in the moonlight and enjoying a summer day by the lake -- many of the activities shown in Arlette Rose Gosiewski’s appliqué tapestries are as popular today as they were a hundred years ago.  Twenty such works will be on display in a special exhibition, Embroidered Memories: The Appliqué Tapestries of Arlette Rose Gosiewski, December 13, 2003 through May 9, 2004.  "Essentially, she’s painting with fabric.  She creates the illusion of light, shadow, perspective, and texture through fabric selection, shape, and placement," said Alice Zrebiec, the DAM’s curator of textile art. 

The Denver Art Museum will celebrate the Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a special promotion Friday, December 12, 2003 through Sunday, January 4, 2004.  Families presenting a special voucher will receive free general Museum admission.  This voucher is available at churches, libraries or by calling the Museum at 720-913-0113.  The Virgin of Guadalupe is the most beloved image in Mexican art; the Museum will highlight paintings of her in the Museum’s Spanish Colonial art collection on the 4th floor.  Various educational opportunities will be available for the entire family. 

Winter fun for kids returns December 20, 2003, with Rhymes and Riddles.  During normal Museum hours families can enjoy free art activities, gallery adventures with our Family Backpacks, and excitement in the Just for Fun family center through January 4, 2004.  For more information, call 720-913-5437. 

December 13, 2003 -March 14, 2004, Frederic Remington: The Color of Night Late in life, Frederic Remington created a series of works which depict his familiar themes of cowboys and Indians, but whose true subject is moonlight and other nocturnal effects difficult to reproduce on canvas.  Like Claude Monet, who struggled to capture the reflections in his water lily pond, Remington became obsessed with fleeting atmospheric effects: the result was pure poetry.  This exhibition-co-organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington and Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa-will present an in-depth look at Remington’s late works, which are among the finest American paintings from the turn of the 20th century.  Tours of the exhibition are available Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. December 16, 2003 through March 13, 2004.