Frank Mechau - Artist of Colorado by Cile M. Bach, Book, copyright 2016 wood The black and white composition

The black and white composition depicts an abstracted table setting

circa 1940 Anonymous Mexican artist with a contemporary custom frame hand-carved by artisan Michael Blatnik

Colorful abstract geometric oil painting by Geraldine Stuheit titled Sideboards & Sails from 1986

Landscape depicting the iconic Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs

Publisher: Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum / Williams Printing

Frank Mechau - Artist of Colorado by Cile M. Bach, Book, copyright 2016 wood The black and white compositionThere are stories scattered throughout human history of rare individuals of remarkable talent, energy, and promise whose lives are unexpectedly and tragically cut short. Artist Frank Mechau was one of these. His artistic career spanned only twenty years, 1926 to 1946, but in the course of those years he produced paintings, murals, and drawings of exceptional potency and poignancy. His work shows influences of the masters he studied, European,