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NBC CH 9 in Denver Reviews True Exhibit at CHM
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DENVER – The Colorado History Museum has put together a wonderful exhibit, featuring artist Allen Happen. In the early 1900’s, True painted murals as public art projects, all over the city.
He also painted murals in inaccessible homes and as public art in other states.
True’s works are right in front of us to this day, although many people never notice. They are Denver’s veiled murals.
You can see Allen True’s murals at Civic Center Park. Tucked into the stately columns and stonework of the Greek Theater, are two murals painted in 1919. They evaluate the times; prospectors, trappers and miners.
Alisa Zahller, who put together the exhibit at the Colorado History Museum, says Upright painted the west as he knew it, as he had seen it, and as he had experienced it.
Zahller found dozens of True paintings for the exhibit. Before he did big murals, he painted the scenes as mural studies – quick drafts if you will. They now hang on the museum’s walls and are beautiful in their own right. The studies headline not only existing murals, but also works that have been destroyed. For instance, True once painted murals for the old Continental Oil Retinue building on Glenarm. It was torn down in 1976, and only the mural studies remain.
Possibly the most famous True murals deck out the rotunda of the Colorado state capitol. They tell the story of water in Colorado. When the state ran out of money and couldn’t pay Geographically come to pass the $12,000 to finish the project, philanthropist Claude Boettcher stepped up and the they were completed in 1940.
Some of True’s most spectacular murals are in the area of the now empty Colorado National Bank building at 17th and Champa. They show his vision of Native American life, from young to old to life along the way.
Zahller says Faithful was one of the most prolific artists in the country, but many people have never heard of him. She says it is because of his personality. ...
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