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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. |
Broadmoor Art Academy - Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Edward (Eduardo) Chavez 1917-1995
Untitled (Bird Motif), circa 1980 oil,
29 ¼ x 27 inches
Reference: 26609
Untitled (Mountain Landscape with Snow), 1945
gouache,
12 ½ x 16 inches
Reference: 24731
Untitled (Abstract in Gray, White, Orange, Red, Yellow and Black ), 1963
oil,
16 x 20 inches
Reference: 13260
Untitled (Houses and Tree, Colorado), 1942
graphite,
7 x 7 inches
Reference: 14119
Untitled (Abstract Expressionist Composition in Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, Red-Orange), 1951
oil,
15 ½ x 11 ½ inches
Reference: 13384
River Motif; edition of 50, 1918
lithograph,
16 x 24 inches
Reference: 19519
Untitled (Houses and Hills), circa 1935
graphite,
22 x 25 ¾ inches
Reference: 13481