{"id":4790,"date":"2019-08-12T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/?page_id=4790"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:39:14","slug":"el-paso-county-art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/el-paso-county-art\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso County Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Art at Centennial Hall<\/span><\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_tour active_section=”1″ el_class=”tour-grey”][vc_tta_section title=”Acercamiento” tab_id=”1565638499336-b1e86e14-14ac”][vc_single_image image=”4828″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Acercamiento (Spiritual Migration)
\n<\/strong>Centennial Hall; Exterior, Cascade Avenue entrance<\/p>\n

Installed in 2003, the colorful tile mural was a collaboration between Colorado Springs and sister city Nuevo Casas Grandes, Mexico.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”4831″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”4833″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”4834″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”4832″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”4829″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”4830″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Blazing Saddles” tab_id=”1565814623007-6623a34c-d32f”][vc_single_image image=”4802″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1565641794518{background-color: #dcdcdc !important;}”]Blazing Saddles<\/strong>
\nCentennial Hall; Interior lobby, outside Suite 200<\/p>\n

Artist Carrie Fell graciously created a painting exclusively for El Paso County in 2014. The acrylic and oil on canvas piece is 48 inches square.<\/p>\n

A Colorado native, Carrie Fell studied interior design in college and began her professional career as an artist in 1985.\u00a0 However, she once worked for former El Paso County Administrator Terry Harris, whose name graces the El Paso County Terry R. Harris Judicial Complex.\u00a0 He encouraged Fell to pursue her art, and she credits him with her success.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”4803″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Clock” tab_id=”1510677560407-ff8cfff5-69b2c37d-0aaf”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4896″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1570034075812{background-color: #dcdcdc !important;}”]Clock<\/strong>
\nCentennial Hall; Auditorium<\/p>\n

Plaque: Johnson Service Company, Milwaukee, U.S.A<\/p>\n

The clock is suspected to be from the Waterbury Clock Company<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The mechanism, the hands and pendulum look like work by Waterbury Clock Company. If the cabinet is original, it was probably a special order. The patented Waterbury hands were available on the Swiss import pinwheel Precision regulator movement which is what this clock has. The switch gear inside the clock is very similar to the one in the Master Clock in St Louis, and that would have good actuated by a cam up in the clock mechanism.<\/p>\n

The flat brass and steel rods were designed for temperature compensation.<\/p>\n

Like many jewelers that contracted with various clock companies to put their names on the clocks so did Warren Johnson. Examples are Tiffany in New York, Mermod Jaccard, in St Louis, Bailey Banks and Biddle. Warren Johnson went a step further and had his cases made different from the normal production cases. Warren Johnson wanted his clocks to be exclusive. So a bit more customizing from the norm made them special. The tradition of having a name appear on a plaque or dial other than the actual maker goes back hundreds of years<\/p>\n

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\nCentennial Hall; Interior lobby, auditorium and office areas<\/p>\n

From 1935 to 1943 the Federal Art Project was part of President Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), hired hundreds of out of work artists who collectively created more than 100,000 paintings and murals and some 18,000 sculptures.<\/p>\n

The Flights of Fancy Collection, by Denver artist Leone Bradbury, depicting nine famous fairy tales and nursery rhymes was displayed at the Ellsworth School in Denver until the building was sold in 1995. The collection was put in storage in 2012 until it was assigned to El Paso County for permanent display in 2016.<\/p>\n