Charles Ragland Bunnell

Charles Ragland Bunnell (January 17, 1897 – September 1968), was an American painter, printmaker, and muralist.

Charles Ragland Bunnell
Born(1897-01-17)January 17, 1897
Kansas City, Missouri
Died(1968-09-00)September , 1968
Colorado
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting, Muralist
MovementAbstract Expressionism

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.

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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
  • Cori Sherman North. Charles Bunnell: Rocky Mountain Modern, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2013. ISBN 9780916537159


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