Broadmoor Art Academy - Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

In 1919, the Broadmoor Art Academy was founded with a vision of creating a new art institution of national stature. The Academy was originally located in a converted mansion on the corner of Cascade and Dale in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The building had previously been the home of the school's founders, Spencer and Julie Penrose - the owners of the Broadmoor Hotel. Art instructors and students alike brought their diverse styles and talents to Colorado, lured by the exquisite landscapes that only the west affords.

The Academy engaged prominent artists as instructors including John F. Carlson, Robert Reid, Birger Sandzén, Ernest Lawson, Boardman Robinson, George Biddle, Randall Davey, Ernest Fiene, and Peppino Mangravite. These artists helped to attract a diverse student body and to garner recognition for the Broadmoor Art Academy in the American Art centers of the East and Midwest.

In 1934, the Academy moved in to a new expansive facility with classrooms, studios, a performing arts theater, music room, library, and a number of galleries. From that point forward, the Academy became known as the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

Although it appeared toward the end of the heyday of American art colonies, the Broadmoor Academy and its successor institution, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, functioned for more than a generation as an important cultural center in the Rocky Mountain West. It was a nationally recognized art colony on par with those in Santa Fe, Taos, Woodstock and Provincetown.

This page illustrates works of art created by many of the artists who were associated with the Broadmoor Academy during their careers.

Edward Marecak 1919-1993
The Evil One Remakes Herself, 1950
 
oil,
37 ½ x 35 ½ inches
Reference: 24359
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Untitled (Abstract in Orange, Black and Gray), 1959
 
oil,
16 x 20 inches
Reference: 13364
Untitled
 
metalwork,
16 ½ x 7 x 11 inches
Reference: 26635
Jenne Magafan 1916-1952
Church in Leadville (Colorado), 1938
 
mixed media,
12 ¼ x 19 inches
Reference: 17919
 
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Untitled (Abstract Expressionist Composition in Yellow, Blue Red and Black), 1959
 
oil,
20 x 16 inches
Reference: 13415
Edward Marecak 1919-1993
Demeter and Persephone, 1966
 
oil,
30 x 46 inches
Reference: 26186
Untitled (Burning Bush)
 
bronze,
16 ½ x 7 x 11 inches
Reference: 26634
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Untitled, 1959
 
oil,
16 x 20 inches
Reference: 21705
 
Edward Marecak 1919-1993
Spring Triumphant, 1974
 
oil,
35 ¾ x 35 ¾ x ¾ inches
Reference: 26184
Jenne Magafan 1916-1952
Windmill on the Plains, 1941
 
mixed media,
14 x 11 inches
Reference: 17918
Frederick Shane 1906-1992
Twilight of History, 1947
 
oil,
15 ½ x 19 ½ inches
Reference: 24833
Arnold Blanch 1896-1968
Colorado Landscape (Near Colorado Springs, Colorado), circa 1935
 
oil,
16 ¼ x 24 ¼ inches
Reference: 25177
 
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Pikes Peak (Colorado Mountain Landscape in Autumn), 1941
 
tempera,
7 ¾ x 11 inches
Reference: 25207
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Untitled, 1963
 
oil,
16 x 20 inches
Reference: 21706
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Untitled (Colorado Landscape with Buttes, Prairie and Sky), 1926
 
oil,
16 x 20 inches
Reference: 15789
Alfred Wands 1904-1998
Untitled
 
watercolor,
13 ½ x 16 ½ inches
Reference: 19064