Untitled (Golden Cycle Mill Near Old Colorado City)
Year 1928
Artist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968, American)
Media oil on canvas
Dimensions 20 x 24 inches
Charles Bunnell was born January 17, 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri. He moved to Colorado with his family after finishing high school, and established his career and life in Colorado Springs. After serving in World War I, he studied at the Broadmoor Art Academy with Boardman Robinson and Ernest Lawson and was asked to be Lawson’s assistant instructor in 1928. He also taught several summers at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1922, he married fellow student, Laura Palmer. Among his many achievements and projects, Bunnell was recommended for a Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural commission in 1934 by Boardman Robinson, as Robinson served as a local judge for WPA mural proposals. Bunnell also assisted Frank Mechau with the Colorado Springs post office murals in 1935. He was part of a traveling exhibition at the Chicago Art Institute, and also exhibited at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, the Kansas City Art Institute and other national venues. In the 1940s Bunnell’s work became more abstract. This is an earlier work showing his expressive realism.
ON VIEW in Arts & Crafts Gallery 3
Signature Signed "CR Bunnell 28" lower center
Credit Line Collection Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
Accession Number 2010.0403