The 26th annual Friendship Powwow and American Indian Cultural Celebration took place at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado, in September. Photo, 2014, from Facebook

The Denver Art Museum in Colorado has a long connection to Indian Country, The New York Times reports.

The museum started buying works from Indian artists in 1925, the paper said. It now houses an Indian art collection of nearly 20,000 objects, including a large number of pieces from contemporary legends like the late Fritz Scholder (Luiseno) and Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo).

“It’s curated beautifully,” Dyani White Hawk, a painter who is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, told the Times. “It has so many artists I really admire, and nothing seems cheesy — and that’s not that common.”

The museum also hosts Indian artists in residence, as many as four a year. Past participants have included Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo), Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Choctaw) and Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute).

The museum held its 26th annual Friendship Powwow and American Indian Cultural Celebration in September.

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Denver Art Museum Strengthens Commitment to Native American Work (The New York Times 11/1)