Colorado Art History

with an emphasis on representational art

(above: Thomas Moran, Smelting Works at Denver, 1892, watercolor and gouache, 9 7/16 x 12 1/2 inches, Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Sampler of books, listed by year of publication, with most recently published book listed first:

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

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