Breaking the Mold—The Virginia Vogel Mattern Collection of Contemporary Native American Art [SOLD]

Breaking the Mold—The Virginia Vogel Mattern Collection of Contemporary Native American Art

Nancy J. Blomberg and Polly Nordstrand

Denver Art Museum, 2006

Published in conjunction with the exhibition October 2006-July 2007

Softcover, first edition, 2006, 96 pages, illustrations of Mattern’s donation to the museum of her collection of pueblo pottery.

Virginia Vogel Mattern spent more than a decade assembling one of the finest private collections of contemporary Native American ceramics, and in 2003 she made one of the most significant donations to the Native Arts department of the Denver Art Museum in its nearly eighty-year history.  This magnificent gift built upon the museum’s already outstanding Native arts collection by adding a contemporary element of incredible strength to the ceramics collection.