Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center records
name: label: Creator
content: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
label: Names
content: Broadmoor Art Academy
label: Names
content: Bartlett, Fred S. (Frederic Stewart), 1905-
label: Names
content: Byrnes, James B.
label: Names
content: Lothrop, Stanley B., d. 1944
label: Names
content: Parker, Paul, 1905-
label: Names
content: Penrose, Spencer, 1865-1939
label: Names
content: Stoner, Stanley
label: Names
content: Wilder, Mitchell A.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Exhibitions
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1984-1985, as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project. Unmicrofilmed material was donated 1984 by Fred Bartlett, former director of the Center.
creator: label: Creator
content: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Founded 1919 as the Broadmoor Art Academy by Mr. And Mrs. Spencer Penrose. The Academy became affiliated with Colorado College in 1926 and was reincorporated as the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in 1936.
function: label: Function
content: Art centers -- Colorado
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 26 Reels (circa 25,000 items)
label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet (Gift)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.colospri
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3215-3234, 3295-3297, and 3459-3461 available for use through interlibrary loan.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Finding aid is available at Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Administrative records, correspondence and exhibition files, and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Loan: Administrative records, 1919-1974, including the Memorandum of Affiliation and Resolutions (1926) whereby the Broadmoor Art Academy became the Arts Department of Colorado College, Colorado Springs; files, 1925-1955, of Broadmoor Art Academy Director Stanley Stoner and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Directors Stanley Lothrop, Paul Parker, Mitchell A. Wilder, and James B. Byrnes containing correspondence with artists and organizations, financial records, annual reports, insurance reports, price lists, exhibition lists, membership lists, clippings, exhibition catalogs, press releases, art school applications, contracts, and photographs; exhibition files, 1945-1955, containing correspondence, lists of artists participating in exhibitions, artists' biographies, installation lists, price lists, drafts of catalog essays, shipping receipts, invoices, loan forms, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, press releases, and photographs of works of art; calendars of events, 1936-1958, and exhibition catalogs for "New Accessions USA," 1946-1974.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Annual reports, 1970 and 1976; corporate reports, 1981 and 1982; a Governor's Award program, 1979; decorative arts catalog from the Golden Gate Exposition, 1939; 11 biennel catalogs, 1950-1972; and miscellaneous catalogs.