Purchased by History from Stan Cuba, Colorado art historian.
Stan Cuba, a graduate of Columbia University in New York, is Associate Consulting Curator at the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in Denver. He has written History Colorado’s The Denver Artists Guild: Its Founding Members, An Illustrated History (2015); and coauthored Sandzén in Colorado; Good Impressions: American Master Prints of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s from the Collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer; The Art of Charles Partridge Adams; The Colorado Book; and George Luks: An American Artist. He has curated and written the catalogs for regional art exhibitions Olive Rush: A Hoosier Artist in New Mexico; Józef Bakoś: An Early Modernist; Colorado Women Artists, 1859–1950; and Hayes Lyon: A Colorado Regionalist. He has published in American Arts Quarterly; American Art Review; El Palacio; Southwest Art; Art of the West; Western Art Digest; Artists of the Rockies and the Golden West; Taos Magazine; Colorado Heritage; and Essays and Monographs in Colorado History.,
Ken Valastro:
Valastro was born in New York City on November 28, 1954 and created artworks since the age of three. Along with painting and drawing Valastro was also a photographer, did restoration work, and was involved in solar heating industry. Many of his paintings capture urban, movement and life scenes. He was an instructor at the Art Students' League of Denver and Park Hill Art Club, and supported many charities. (See accession file for more information and additional reference material).