In this hour-long public television program, host Warren Kelly tours Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art. He meets curator and director Hugh Grant who reveals first-hand the history of Colorado's premier 20th-century painter Vance Kirkland and the founding of Kirkland Museum. Former Denver Mayor Quigg Newton, his wife Virginia, and Kirkland friends Marion Gottesfeld, Dean Sartori and Lee Milmon also share their personal recollections of Kirkland and his paintings. Learn about Kirkland's relationship with Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti and start Gypsy Lee Rose, as well as his passions for Colorado art and international design objects, now the basis of Kirkland Museum's collection.
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