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Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson.

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American Indian Orpheus and the Animals

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Benedict Fountain

This architectural sculpture by Maurice Bardin features a fountain with lions.

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Sea Lion Fountain

The Sea Lion Fountain, designed by Robert Garrison, was installed in 1922. The 60-foot by 30-foot basin features two bronze sea lions, being ridden by cherubs, facing each other from opposite sides of the pool.

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Mayor Robert Speer

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Acumen

Boulder-based artist Garrison Roots was selected to create an epoxy resin terrazzo art floor for the new Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center.  To create his design, Roots layered patterns and images from nature (water, fire, tree rings and a hurricane) to create a richly colored, interlaced work that defines this public place of interaction and ever-changing …

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Denver Convergence

Convergence is a diaphanous funnel-shaped steel sculpture composed of 1,344 laser-cut human profiles.  There are twelve jurors on a typical jury, and the silhouettes are multiples of twelve Denver citizens representing a variety of ages and ethnicities.  Viewed from the ground floor entry looking up, one is immersed in an optical vortex as the ascending …

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Light Chamber

New York-based artist Dennis Oppenheim created a large-scale sculptural installation for the north end of the DaleTooleyPlaza, at the terminus of Tremont and Colfax.  The sculpture’s title, Light Chamber, comes from two sources: the judge’s chambers and light.  Oppenheim was inspired by the people who work in the courts and his concept was to create …

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Cloudbreak

The east wall of the jury assembly room is a colored glass image of light bursting from behind dramatic storm clouds seen through a layer of over 13,500 glass tubes that “push” like a cloud through the metal frame of the wall in low relief. Each tube catches the bits of color of the pixelated …

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We the People

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