Charles Ragland Bunnell
| Charles Ragland Bunnell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 17, 1897 Kansas City, Missouri |
| Died |
September , 1968 Colorado |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting, Muralist |
| Movement | Abstract Expressionism |
Charles Ragland Bunnell (January 17, 1897 – September 1968), was an American painter, printmaker, and muralist.
Bunnell was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He moved to Colorado Springs in 1915 and was thereafter associated with that city. As a WPA artist from 1934 to 1941 he executed many commissioned murals in a sturdy, somewhat abstracted figurative style. He was also noted for his colorful Western landscapes. Later he became particularly known for bold abstracts in a cubist-influenced idiom, tending eventually toward abstract expressionism, the style in which he worked from about the 1950s until his death. Marika Herskovic's American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s : an Illustrated Survey (New York School Press, 2003), provides an accounting of this period in Bunnell's stylistic evolution. His work is in the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Taylor Museum in the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Denver's Kirkland Museum, and others. He died in Colorado, aged 71.
See also
References
- Charles Bunnell; Amarillo Art Center.; Dord Fitz Gallery. Charles Bunnell (1897-1968) : the past remembered : a retrospective exhibition, September 12-October 18, 1987 (Amarillo, Texas : Amarillo Art Center, 1987) ISBN 0-935267-05-0, ISBN 978-0-935267-05-1 [includes color images of Bunnell's work]
- Doris Ostrander Dawdy. Artists of the American West : a biographical dictionary (Chicago : Sage Books, [1974]-1985) ISBN 0-8040-0607-5, ISBN 978-0-8040-0607-1 [includes color images of Bunnell's work]
- Marika Herskovic. American abstract expressionism of the 1950s : an illustrated survey : with artists' statements, artwork and biographies (New York : New York School Press, 2003) (ISBN 0967799414, ISBN 978-0-9677994-1-4) [includes color images of Bunnell's work]
- Stanley Cuba. John F. Carlson and Artists of the Broadmoor Academy, David Cook Fine Art, Denver, Colorado, 1999. ISBN 0967615607 ISBN 9780967615608
External links
- Askart.com pages on Bunnell, with several color images.
- Artnet.com information on Bunnell.