Charles Ragland Bunnell

Charles Ragland Bunnell
Born	January 17, 1897(1897-01-17) Kansas City, Missouri
Died	September , 1968(1968-09-00) Colorado
Nationality	American
Field	Painting, Muralist

Charles Ragland Bunnell (born in Kansas City, Missouri, January 17, 1897, died in Colorado September 1968), was an American painter, printmaker, and muralist. 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 become 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.

See also

• Federal Art Project
• Bodley Gallery

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 0935267050 9780935267051 [includes color images of Bunnell's work]
• Doris Ostrander Dawdy. Artists of the American West : a biographical dictionary (Chicago : Sage Books, [1974]-1985) ISBN 0804006075 : 9780804006071 [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 9780967799414) [includes color images of Bunnell's work]

External links

• Askart.com pages on Bunnell, with several color images.
• Artnet.com information on Bunnell.

Persondata
Name	Bunnell, Charles Ragland
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	January 17, 1897
Place of birth	Kansas City, Missouri
Date of death	1968-9
Place of death	Colorado