Collection: 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.

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Spell Of The Winter Garden, Acrylic Painting, 1965
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Untitled (Burning Bush), Bronze Sculpture
Vendor:Edward (Eduardo) Chavez (1917-1995)Regular price $4,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Untitled, Watercolor Painting
Vendor:Alfred Wands (1904-1998)Regular price $4,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Windmill on the Plains, Mixed Media Painting, 1941
Vendor:Jenne Magafan (1916-1952)Regular price $4,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Pods, Oil Painting
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,650.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
The Committee, Oil Painting, 1965
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,500.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Seven Wise and Foolish Virgins, Oil Painting, 1960
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,500.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Clowns, Jugglers and Acrobats, Oil Painting, 1986
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,500.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Enchanted Garden, Oil Painting, 1987
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,500.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Byzantine Spell, Mixed Media Painting, 1965
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,500.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Untitled, Oil Painting, 1959
Vendor:Charles Bunnell (1897-1968)Regular price $4,250.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Untitled (Mountain Landscape with Snow), Gouache Painting, 1945
Vendor:Edgar Britton (1901-1982)Regular price $4,250.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Nero's House of Gold, Oil Painting, 1965
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,200.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Zeus, Venus and Hera, Oil Painting, 1982
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,200.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Two Mothers Going To The PTA, Oil Painting, 1980s
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,125.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
War Goddess Stands For Her Portrait, Oil Painting, 1968
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,125.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Masks, Oil Painting, 1980s
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,000.00Regular priceUnit price / per$5,000.00Sale price $4,000.00Sale -
Friends, Oil Painting, 1970s
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $4,000.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Untitled, Oil Painting, 1951
Vendor:Charles Bunnell (1897-1968)Regular price $4,000.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Untitled, Oil Painting, 1954
Vendor:Charles Bunnell (1897-1968)Regular price $4,000.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
The Argument, Oil Painting, 1968
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $3,800.00Regular priceUnit price / per$4,750.00Sale price $3,800.00Sale -
Still Life (with Fruit and Mask), Oil Painting, 1982
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $3,800.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Twilight of History, Oil Painting, 1947
Vendor:Frederick Shane (1906-1992)Regular price $3,800.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Cameron's Cone (Above Colorado Springs, Colorado), Watercolor Painting, circa 1930
Vendor:Charles Bunnell (1897-1968)Regular price $3,800.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Spell, Oil Painting, 1987
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $3,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
We Are Behind The Flowers, Oil Painting, 1983
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $3,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Acrobats, Oil Painting, 1990's
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $3,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Untitled (Artist with his Sons in a Park, Denver, Colorado), Oil Painting, circa 1980
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $3,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
A Jemez Fiscal (Plate 552 from "The North American Indian Project"), Photogravure Photograph, 1925
Vendor:Edward Curtis (1868-1952)Regular price $3,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Untitled, Oil Painting, 1963
Vendor:Charles Bunnell (1897-1968)Regular price $3,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Pikes Peak (Colorado Mountain Landscape in Autumn), Tempera Painting, 1941
Vendor:Charles Bunnell (1897-1968)Regular price $3,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per$6,250.00Sale price $3,750.00Sale -
Untitled (Colorado Landscape with Buttes, Prairie and Sky), Oil Painting, 1926
Vendor:Charles Bunnell (1897-1968)Regular price $3,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
The King, Oil Painting, 1979
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $3,500.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Patriotic Ladies, Oil Painting, 1984
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $3,500.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Four Heads in One, Oil Painting, 1980
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $3,500.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Witch With Hand Maiden, Oil Painting, 1979
Vendor:Edward Marecak (1919-1993)Regular price $3,500.00Regular priceUnit price / per
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