Deborah Wadsworth

Art Collector & Author

Deborah Wadsworth and her husband, Warren, have collected Colorado art for over fifty years. She enjoyed curating several shows of historic artists at the Denver Public Library and the Kirkland Institute of Fine and Decorative Art. This article is an excerpt from her book Paris to the Platte: John Edward Thompson, Colorado’s First Modernist Painter, to be published in spring 2025.

Deborah Wadsworth

Written by Deborah Wadsworth

  • Organization of Rocks and Trees, circa 1919, oil on canvas

    Denver’s Armory Show

    Fraud upon the Public! Bolshevists! Anarchists! Selections from a Madhouse! Idiocies of conception! Outrages that should be prohibited! Madness that can only be blamed on the War!

    One would scarcely have expected such frenzied responses to the twenty-fifth annual exhibition of the Denver Art Museum in 1919.