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
Witches Banner, 1960s
 
mixed media,
36 x 18 ½ inches
Reference: 23148
Harold Skene 1883-1978
Monuments: Sunrise (Desert Landscape Painting), 1958
 
oil,
24 ¼ x 30 inches
Reference: 22621
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Cameron's Cone (Above Colorado Springs, Colorado), circa 1930
 
watercolor,
9 ½ x 13 ¼ inches
Reference: 15790
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Untitled (Abstract Expressionist Composition), 1953
 
watercolor,
10 ¾ x 6 ¾ inches
Reference: 13429
 
Lewis Tilley 1921-2005
Opera Matinee, 1948
 
oil,
9 x 12 inches
Reference: 25828
Harold Skene 1883-1978
Homesteaders, 1960
 
oil,
24 x 30 inches
Reference: 22618
Harold Skene 1883-1978
Ghost Town (Mountain Landscape with a Prospector), 1963
 
oil,
24 x 30 inches
Reference: 22629
Harold Skene 1883-1978
Antelope (Colorado Mountain Landscape), 1959
 
oil,
24 ¼ x 30 inches
Reference: 22634
 
Edward Marecak 1919-1993
Birds and Fish, circa 1960's
 
acrylic,
17 x 36 inches
Reference: 24363
Laura Bunnell 1902-1992
Pikes Peak (Colorado), 1962
 
watercolor,
4 ½ x 5 ¾ inches
Reference: 13908
Birger Sandzen 1871-1954
Pond with Poplars (Near Colorado Springs, Colorado), 1923
 
lithograph,
10 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches
Reference: 23070
Archie Musick 1902-1978
Prospector's Cabin, circa 1937
 
lithograph,
9 ¾ x 12 ¾ inches
Reference: 24416
 
Adolf Dehn 1895-1968
Untitled (Minnesota Farm), 1942
 
watercolor,
13 ¾ x 20 ½ inches
Reference: 25280
Boardman Robinson 1876-1952
Untitled (Mountain Landscape, Colorado)
 
graphite,
5 ¾ x 8 ¾ inches
Reference: 25812
Lewis Tilley 1921-2005
Cycle, 4/5, 1966
 
lithograph,
12 ½ x 10 ½ inches
Reference: 19615
Boardman Robinson 1876-1952
The Vendor of Masques, circa 1930
 
gouache,
15 ¼ x 10 ½ inches
Reference: 25784