Collectors for Connoisseurship (C4C) Denver Arts Weekend
25th Anniversary Celebration
Schedule of Public & Private Events
October 12-15, 2023
Windows to the Divine, a Colorado-based nonprofit foundation that promotes art and spirituality through arts education, hospitality, and philanthropy, hosted the 2023 C4C Arts Weekend in Denver from Oct 12-Oct 15. C4C collectors and art lovers from around the country traveled to Denver to enjoy private museum and collection tours, sessions with exhibition artists and educational programming.
The weekend featured the national Windows to the Divine exhibition entitled Beauty & Spirit featuring the works of more than 39 nationally renowned artists:
Kathy Anderson, Blair Atherholt, Stephanie Birdsall, Kelly Birkenruth, Greg Block, Casey Childs, Madeleine Dodge, Michelle Dunaway, Scott Fraser, Ann Gargotto, Ulrich Gleiter, David Gray, Albert Handell, Stephanie Hartshorn, Ron Hicks, Quang Ho, William Hook, Jane Hunt, Brendan Johnston, Andrea Kemp, Lynn Kircher, David Leffel, Terrie Lombardi, Kyle Ma, Huberto Maestas, Dan McCaw, Danny McCaw, John McCaw, Sherrie McGraw, C.W. Mundy, Desmond O'Hagan, Maria Panou, Vasily Ryabchenko, Ron Richmond, Don Sahli, Jill Soukup, Daniel Sprick, Adrienne Stein (2023 Fra Angelico Artist of the Year), and Vincent Xeus.
The schedule of public and private events was as follows:
Thursday, Oct 12
Private Collector Tour
American Museum of Western Art
The Anschutz Collection
The Anshutz Collection, formerly a private collection, is now a nonprofit museum founded in 2010, and is comprised of over six hundred paintings, drawings, and sculptures by more than 180 artists. With works by George Bellows, Albert Bierstadt, George Caleb Bingham, Ernest Blumenschein, George Catlin, Stuart Davis, Asher B. Durand, George Inness, John Marin, Alfred Jacob Miller, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell, and Walter Ufer, the collection represents a survey of the American West from the early 19th century to today.
Cocktails, Churchill Bar and Atrium Lobby of the Brown Palace Hotel Followed by Private Dinner, Onyx Suite
Open since August 12, 1892, The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa (named after Henry Cordes Brown, an Ohio "carpenter-turned real estate entrepreneur") was designed by architect, Frank Edbrooke. Some of the striking architectural features of the hotel include the red granite and sandstone exterior, the dramatic atrium lobby, Grand Salon (now the Onyx Suite), and 8th floor Ballroom made of onyx from Mexico. Of note is the wallpaper mural created by the Zuber Company of Alsace, France, in 1834, depicting scenes from pre-revolutionary America, located in the Independence Room of the Palace Arms restaurant.
Friday, Oct 13:
Private Morning Collector Tour w/ Angelica Daneo, Chief Curator and Curator of European Art before 1900
Denver Art Museum
In 2021, the DAM opened the new Sie Welcome Center and the renovated 50-year-old Ponti-designed building (now known as the Martin Building, named after Sharon Martin & Lanny Martin, recently deceased, and hosts of the C4C Collector Cocktail Party during the 2016 C4C Arts Weekend). Angelica Daneo, Chief Curator of European Art before 1900 was our guide for a private tour of the collection. Important patrons that made the collection possible through major gifts were Mrs. Simon Guggenheim (Old Master paintings in 1950’s), the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (Old Master-33 paintings and 4 sculptures in 1954 ), Frederic C Hamilton (22 Impressionist masterworks in 2014), Berger Collection Educational Trust (65 British masterworks n 2018), and Dr. Esmond Bradley Martin (44 works on paper).
- Lunch with Collectors & Exhibition Artists:
FIRE restaurant at Art Hotel (located on 4th Floor) - 2:00-3:30pm
Collector Preview of Exhibition & Pre-Sales
Gallery 1261 - 4pm-8:00pm
Public Complimentary Opening Reception of Beauty & Spirit Exhibition (Cocktails, Appetizers & Dessert)
Gallery 1261- Presentation of Fra Angelico Artist of the Year Award to Adrienne Stein
- Recognition of Past Longtime Benefactors
Saturday, Oct 14:
Collectors and Artists Spend Day Together.
- 10am-1:00pm
Public Complimentary Collector Exhibition Salon w/ Presentations
Gallery 1261- Shannon Robinson, President, Windows to the Divine
Antiquity to Realism: The Evolving Influence of Beauty & Spirit - Peter Trippi, Editor-in-Chief, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine
Modern Renaissance: The Pre-Raphaelites’ Fascination with Early Italian Art - Adrienne Stein, 2023 Fra Angelico Artist of the Year
The Secret Planet
- Shannon Robinson, President, Windows to the Divine
- 1:30pm-3:15pm
Private Tour of Art & Antiques Collection
Private Home in Greenwood Village - 4:00pm-8:00pm:
Collection Tour & Dinner for Collectors & Artists
Home of Shannon & Michael Robinson
Sunday, Oct 15
- 8:30am-9:30am
Private Catholic Mass in Dominican Priory Chapel - 9:30-10:30am
Coffee & Tour of New Dominican Priory/Novitiate
