Pueblo Treasure From The Silverman Museum. Western History, Genealogy, The Denver Public Library. (Cover Title)

SILVERMAN MUSEUM

Publication: Frederic Printing, 2005, Denver

First edition. 4to. Limited to 2,500 copies. Color pictorial, stiff wrappers, verso of front and rear covers a color map, 140 [3] pp., illustrated from photographs [many in full color], portraits, afterword, bibliography, about the Silverman Museum. Much on Pueblo treasure including Pueblo pottery, blankets, and historic beams and doors from Acoma Pueblo. Jack Silverman makes an interesting observation regarding great works of art, and says in part: "Owning a great work of art for a long period of time pays dividends to its owner. I've owned some of the works of art in my collections for ten years. I’ve owned others for twenty or even thirty years. When you live with a great work of art, it teaches you lessons, and one of the lessons it teaches is how to appreciate great works of art. This may sound like a chicken-and-egg dilemma but it’s not so much an event as it is an educational process. The more time you spend with a great work of art, the more you see in its details. The more you see in those details, the more you learn from those details. To characterize that educational process as a return on an investment may be accurate on some level but on an experiential level it misses the point. Living with great art for a long period time not only makes the art more valuable, it makes life more valuable, too. No matter how you calculate the return on what great art costs to buy, spending ten years of your life with a great work of art will teach you more about art, about life, and about yourself than any amount of buying and selling can teach you." Fine, bright copy complete with a C D disc for viewing enjoyment.

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