- City:
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Art Works, Auditoriums and Arenas, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Public Works of Art Project (PWAP)
- Artist:
- Tabor Utley
Description
“The Arts”
“The City Auditorium showcases two New Deal murals that face each other in the curved walls above the ticket counters, and explain the early dichotomy of the city.
Archie Musick’s “Hardrock Miners” tells the story of the mine laborers who helped create the wealth that flowed down the mountains into Colorado Springs, while Tabor Utley’s “The Arts” expresses the city founders’ vision of a “Newport in the Rockies,” peopled by refined citizens.
That same dichotomy between hard labor and the arts defined Colorado Springs during the New Deal era.”
– gazette.com
Source notes
Reed, Bill. "City Auditorium murals, Monument Creek wall are part of New Deal's legacy,"The Colorado Springs Gazette, May 6, 2008.At this Location:
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