Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), was an American painter, printmaker, and muralist.

Charles R. Bunnell
Born
Charles Ragland Bunnell

1897 (1897)
Kansas City, Missouri
Died1968 (aged 70–71)
Colorado Springs, Colorado
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting, Muralist
MovementAbstract Expressionism

Bunnell was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1897.[1] He moved to Colorado Springs in 1915.[2] Bunnell enlisted and served in the United States Army during World War I.[3] He studied at the Broadmoor Art Academy, (now the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center). [2]

In 1934, Bunnell won a commission from the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) to complete a mural for West Junior High School in Colorado Springs. He worked with Frank Mechau on the mural for the Colorado Springs Post Office and went on to create paintings for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.[3]

Bunnell moved away from American Scene painting and into abstract art.[4] 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.

In 1964, Bunnell was interviewed for the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project.[5] His work is in the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Taylor Museum in the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and Denver's Kirkland Museum,[6][7] He died in Colorado Springs in 1968.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "Charles Bunnell - Biography". AskArt. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Charles Ragland Bunnell". ArtNet. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Charles Bunnell". Modernist West. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  4. ^ Stewart, Golddigger: Elizabeth (15 August 2022). "Charles Bunnell came to embrace abstract art". Santa Barbara News-Press. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Oral history interview with Charles Bunnell, 1964 November 10 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Untitled by Charles Bunnell - oil painting". Kirkland Museum. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  7. ^ "FAC Legacy Series". Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Retrieved 19 October 2022.

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