We already knew the Denver Art Museum’s Monet exhibition was going to be big, having billed itself as the largest gathering of the legendary painter’s work in more than two decades.
But the Denver showing of “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,” which runs Oct. 21-Feb. 2, 2020, is also the only U.S. stop for the exhibition, which will travel to the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, in the spring of 2020.
That practically ensures demand for tickets, and positions “The Truth of Nature” as a landmark, travel-worthy asset for the Denver Art Museum, which is already planning on adding staff and programming to support the crush of visitors.
Individual tickets for the exhibition will be available starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 25, museum officials announced today. Discounted tickets for groups of 10 or more are already on sale, and museum members will get access to advance tickets starting the week of June 10.
Prices have not yet been announced, but if you couldn’t tell by now, access to “The Truth of Nature” will be over-and-above the general-admission cost to the museum (free for 18 and under; $8-$13 for adult non-members).
“Truth of Nature” plans to feature more than 20,000 square feet of gallery space across three galleries with 125 paintings. On June 25, the day tickets go on sale, the museum’s Martin Plaza (at 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway) will offer “interactive moments for the public and media,” with details to be announced in June.
Tickets can be purchased by calling 720-913-0130 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, in person at the museum’s welcome center, or online at denverartmuseum.org.
Like Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ “Hamilton” run, art museum officials are weaponizing interest in the exhibition to drive new memberships, promising an early peek at the exhibition on Oct. 18 — three days before it opens to the public — in addition to first crack at tickets.
The exhibition will emphasize “the artist’s enduring relationship with nature and his response to the varied and distinct places in which he worked,” according to denverartmuseum.org. That includes Monet’s increasing isolation from people and immersion in nature, which typified the latter days of his career.
Individual paintings shared on the DAM’s website have included “Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge” (1899), “Boulevard des Capucines” (1873-1874), “The Parc Monceau” (1878), “Path in the Wheat Fields at Pourville (Chemin dans les blés à Pourville)” (1882) and “The Canoe on the Epte” (1890).
Denver Art Museum and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam organized the exhibition with curation by the DAM’s Angelica Daneo, Christoph Heinrich and Alexander Penn, and Museum Barberini’s director Ortrud Westheider. Paintings in the exhibition hail from lenders such as the Musée d’Orsay and Musée Marmottan Monet (both in Paris); Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The exhibition will also include six Monet paintings from the DAM collection, four of which were part of the Frederic C. Hamilton Collection bequest in 2014.
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