Colorado Representational Art History

TFAO's Distinguished Artists catalogue provides online access to biographical information for artists associated with this state. Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not listed on this page.

Books:

Pikes Peak Vision: The Broadmoor Art Academy, 1919-1945, by David J. Wagner (Foreword), Stanley L. Cuba (Preface), Elizabeth Cunningham (Preface), 196 pages, Publisher: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (May 1, 1990). ISBN-10: 0916537102. ISBN-13: 978-0916537104. Google Books says: "Catalog of an exhibition held at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and other museums, Oct. 6, 1989-Nov. 18, 1990."

Significant Colorado Women Artists, By National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.). Colorado Committee, Colorado Committee, National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.), Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center. Published by National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1988. 34 pages

Colorado Springs Fine Art Center: History of Collections, 1986, Marshall Sprague, Historian, "Colorado Springs Fine Art Center-Its Formative Years" (pp. 14-42

The Evolution of Landscape Painting in Colorado, 1820-1900, By Patricia Trenton. Published by University of California, Los Angeles, 1980. 622 pages

Colorado Women in the Arts, May 1979, Published by Colorado Women in the Arts, 1979. 196 pages. Google Books says: "Catalog of an exhibition held in Arvada, Colo. during May 1979."

Colorful Colorado Artists: The State's Art History, By Ray D Espinoza. Published by Espinoza, 1978

Musick medley; intimate memories of a Rocky Mountain art colony, By Archie Leroy Musick. [The Broadmoor Art Academy] Published by , 1971. 121 pages

Rocky Mountain Artists' Colony School of Expression and Dramatic Art: For Men, Women and Children. Published by Bayless, 1925

Articles:

Carol Cruickshanks: "Colorado Modernists in the Kirkland Museum" American Art Review September-October 2006 (Volume XVIII, Number 5)

Cori Sherman North, "Colorado Rockies: Art from the Moffett Collection" American Art Review, May-June 2008 (Volume XX, Number 3)

Paul Piazza: Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center: History of Collections, 1986, Paul Piazza, Director, "Introduction" on History of Center (3 pages)

Katharine Smith-Warren: "Women Artists in Colorado" American Art Review March-April 2001 (Volume XIII, Number 2)

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TFAO catalogues:

American Representational Art links to dozens of topics in American Representational Art
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