15 Colorado Artists - Colorado Fifteen

Fifteen artists broke from the conservative Denver Artists Guild and founded what is now known as the "Colorado Fifteen". The 15 were, alphabetically, Don Allen, John Billmyer, Marion Buchan, Jean Charlot, Mina Conant, Angelo di Benedetto, Eo Kirchner, Vance Kirkland, Moritz Krieg, Duard Marshall, Louise Ronnebeck, William Sanderson, Paul K. Smith, J. Richard Sorby and Frank Vavra. Subsequently many other artists joined the 15 until the group disbanded about 1970.
Margo Hoff 1910-2008
Media Man, 1974
 
mixed media,
54 x 60 x ¾ inches
Reference: 21425
Vance Kirkland 1904-1981
Ed (Hicks) Sketching at Red Rocks, January 1943
 
watercolor,
21 x 29 inches
Reference: 25883
Angelo Di Benedetto 1913-1992
Untitled (Black on Black Mobile), circa 1955
 
acrylic
22 ¾ x 9 inches
Reference: 24870
Angelo Di Benedetto 1913-1992
Untitled (The DiBenedetto Twins), 1947
 
oil,
28 x 38 inches
Reference: 26641
 
Paul K Smith 1893-1977
Shovel Handles, 1953
 
oil,
24 x 18 inches
Reference: 25164
Paul K Smith 1893-1977
Untitled (Artist's Studio with Paint, Flowers and Abstract Paintings)
 
oil,
34 ¼ x 28 ¼ inches
Reference: 25882
Paul K Smith 1893-1977
Untitled (Still Life with Zinnia and Abstract Paintings)
 
oil,
19 ½ x 23 ½ inches
Reference: 25857
Angelo Di Benedetto 1913-1992
Birdcage, 1957
 
oil,
47 ½ x 51 ½ inches
Reference: 25528
 
Angelo Di Benedetto 1913-1992
Untitled
 
metalwork
13 ¼ x 11 ¼ x 7 ½ inches
Reference: 24761
Louise Ronnebeck 1901-1980
Building Boom, circa 1937
 
watercolor,
22 ¼ x 16 inches
Reference: 23130
Vance Kirkland 1904-1981
Ruins of Central City, 1935
 
lithograph,
14 x 17 ¾ inches
Reference: 25852
Paul K Smith 1893-1977
Untitled (Colorado Mine), circa 1940
 
oil,
18 ¼ x 24 inches
Reference: 12898
 
Paul K Smith 1893-1977
Untitled (Abstract), circa 1955
 
oil,
24 x 18 inches
Reference: 12899
Richard Sorby 1911-2001
Untitled (Blue and Yellow Abstract)
 
mixed media
4 ¾ x 4 ¾ x ¼ inches
Reference: 26554
Richard Sorby 1911-2001
Untitled (Modernist Trees), circa 1940
 
watercolor,
22 ¾ x 14 ¾ inches
Reference: 24873
Paul K Smith 1893-1977
Untitled (Abstract), circa 1955
 
oil,
11 x 15 inches
Reference: 12926