What Retirement Taught Baryn Futa About Living With Purpose

Baryn Futa’s story is, at its core, a story about discovering purpose. It arrived unexpectedly, after a lifetime of work, in the galleries of the Denver Art Museum. Most people would have seen a pleasant way to spend an afternoon. Futa saw a calling.

He began attending every arts event he could find — fairs, exhibitions, lectures — absorbing as much as possible in as short a time as possible. He started collecting, slowly at first and then with increasing ambition, assembling a body of work that now numbers among the most impressive private collections in the country. What Futa teaches by example is that it is never too late to find what matters to you, and that when you do find it, the right response is total commitment. His late entry into the art world has not been a limitation. It has been a reminder that passion, once found, knows no age limit.