De Wain Valentine is an American minimalist

Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

 sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado

Fort Collins, Colorado

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 in 1936. He is best known for his translucent glass, fiberglass

Fiberglass

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 and cast polyester resin sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects.

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

The now defunct Contemporary Museum, Honolulu was the only museum in the state of Hawaii devoted exclusively to contemporary art. The Contemporary Museum had two venues: in residential Honolulu at the historic Spalding House, and downtown Honolulu at First Hawaiian Center.-Collection:Artists...

, the Denver Art Museum

Denver Art Museum

The Denver Art Museum is an art museum in Denver, Colorado located in Denver's Civic Center.It is known for its collection of American Indian art,and has a comprehensive collection numbering more than 68,000 works from across the world....

, the Louisiana State University Museum of Art (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (Utah State University, Logan, Utah) and the San Diego Museum of Art

San Diego Museum of Art

The San Diego Museum of Art is a fine arts museum located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California that houses a broad collection with particular strength in Spanish art. The San Diego Museum of Art opened as The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego on February 28, 1926, and changed its name to the San...

(San Diego, California) are among the public collections holding work by DeWain Valentine.

Among the many Corporate Art Collections that have excellent examples of Vantine's work are the Atlantic Richfield Corporate Art Collection (Los Angeles & New York offices); and the Anaconda Corporation (Denver).