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.

Zola Zaugg 1890-1983
Golden Cycle Mine (Old Colorado City, Colorado), 1940
 
watercolor,
12 x 15 ½ inches
Reference: 25206
Ethel Magafan 1916-1993
Corralled Horse (Artists Proof), 1947
 
etching,
10 x 14 inches
Reference: 19680
Arnold Ronnebeck 1885-1947
Magic Peak (Colorado Mountain Landscape with Clouds), 1937
 
lithograph,
14 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches
Reference: 25535
Arnold Ronnebeck 1885-1947
Rain in the Rockies, circa 1939
 
lithograph,
10 ½ x 16 inches
Reference: 25536
 
Edgar Britton 1901-1982
The Dancer
 
woodcut (Woodblock),
8 ¾ x 6 inches
Reference: 23065
Peppino Mangravite 1896-1978
Tomorrow's Bread; edition of 250, 1946
 
lithograph,
9 ¼ x 14 inches
Reference: 20953
Otis Dozier 1904-1987
Mining Town, 1940
 
lithograph,
16 ¼ x 9 ½ inches
Reference: 25821
Ernestine Parsons 1884-1967
Untitled (Autumn Trees), circa 1930
 
oil,
11 ½ x 15 ½ inches
Reference: 23201
 
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Birth, 1943
 
watercolor,
21 x 17 inches
Reference: 7473
Peppino Mangravite 1896-1978
Young Man Who Went West, circa 1940
 
lithograph,
11 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches
Reference: 19474
Ethel Magafan 1916-1993
November Leaves, Artist Proof, circa 1947
 
etching,
10 ½ x 12 ½ inches
Reference: 12014
Untitled (Abstract Landscape), 1984
 
graphite,
5 ½ x 7 ½ inches
Reference: 26617
 
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Georgetown (Church in the Mountains, Colorado), 1938
 
pen,
7 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches
Reference: 23605
Laurence Field 1909-1999
Garden of the Gods from the Garden of the Gods Club (Near Colorado Springs), circa 1950's
 
lithograph,
7 ½ x 12 inches
Reference: 28181
Charles Bunnell 1897-1968
Untitled Abstract (Study for Sacred Family), 1950
 
graphite,
7 ¾ x 5 ½ inches
Reference: 23598
Lawrence Barrett 1897-1973
Forgotten, 53/80, 1943
 
lithograph,
9 ½ x 12 inches
Reference: 20577