Background
Bunnell was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bunnell was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
He moved to Colorado Springs in 1915 and was thereafter associated with that city. As a World Pet Association artist from 1934 to 1941 he executed many commissioned murals in a sturdy, somewhat abstracted figurative style. He was also noted for his colorful Western landscapes.
Later he become particularly known for bold abstracts in a cubist-influenced idiom, tending eventually toward abstract expressionism, the style in which he worked from about the 1950s until his death.
Marika Herskovic"s American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: an Illustrated Survey (New York School Press, 2003), provides an accounting of this period in Bunnell"s stylistic evolution. His work is in the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Taylor Museum in the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Denver"s Kirkland Museum, and others
He died in Colorado, aged 71.