Local artists Nicholas Reti and Ivy Walker received a Paid to Create grant in Fall 2017 for their project called “The History of Art in Crested Butte” with the goals of uncovering, discovering, and archiving our local art history. The Read More
Thomas Moran was thirty-four years old when he first traveled West to Yellowstone with F. V. Hayden’s U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories of 1871. Two years later, he ventured to the Grand Canyon with John Wesley Powell’s Read More
In her book, The Language of Landscapes, Anne Spirn writes about “landscapes as a continual dialogue between a place and those who interact with it.” She states, “Landscapes have a context in which they reside and are experienced; they have Read More
William Henry Jackson was more than a daring explorer scrambling around precipices, climbing fourteen thousand foot peaks and scaling sheer canyon walls. He was the finest of the nation’s wet-plate photographers. He perfected his craft on the job creating powerful Read More
George Mellen George Mellen, born in 1854, launched his career in photography in the Gunnison area. He wandered for three years, photographing throughout the western slope area of Colorado, to mining camps and new towns from Monarch Pass to the Read More
In September of 2017, the Crested Butte Creative District awarded the History of Art in Crested Butte project a community grant. Our local radio station, KBUT, hosts a feature entitled “Paid to Create” which is also made possible by the Read More
Bob Chien Crested Butte, Colorado 1963 Postcard 9918, showing color postcard depicting “vacation paradise with old country flavor”. Alpine Community of Crested Butte, Publisher: Gunnison Newspapers, from CBMHM collection
Eleanor Stephanic Crested Butte, Colorado 1963 Postcard 9922, showing Winter of 1962-63, elevation 8888, in the background is Crested Butte and new ski area. Crested Butte, Colorado, Publisher: Seabring News Service, Gunnison, from CBMHM collection
Bill Duehren Crested Butte, Colorado. circa 1962 watercolor of the Crested Butte water tower from CBMHM Collection
Sandra Dallas Crested Butte, Colorado 1960-65 photograph by Sandra Dallas of the Kochevar House in Crested Butte Crested Butte, CO, Jacob Kochevar Residence. From DPL X7611, Western History Collection
Sumner Crested Butte, Colorado photograph of the depot with child in field of bread and butter flowers from CBMHM Collection
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