Lovers of western American art will not want to miss the 2013 Petrie Institute Annual Symposium to be held in January 2013 (exact date to be announced) from 9:00-5:00. Lunch is included in the full day package.

The Denver Art Museum’s Petrie Institute for Western American Art oversees an active program of acquisitions and exhibitions. The collection includes work by western masters such as George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, John Mix Stanley, Alfred Jacob Miller, and others. The crown jewel in the institute's collection is Charles Deas’sLong Jakes, "the Rocky Mountain Man," the single most influential image in Rocky Mountain iconography.

The Western American Art Collection was greatly enhanced in 2001 with a gift of more than 800 works of art from Bill and Dorothy Harmsen, longtime Colorado residents and founders of the Jolly Rancher Candy Company.