Art: Boston of the West

Colorado Springs, at the foot of Pikes Peak, looked forward this week to a cultural renaissance. Due to arrive were such Eastern artistic notables as Painter Walt Kuhn, Manhattan Dealer Marie Sterner, Collectors A. Conger Goodyear, Thomas Cochran and Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Bliss. In an auditorium in a brand new ivory-colored concrete and aluminum building these, and those residents who like to think of Colorado Springs as "the Boston of the West," were to hear Albert Spalding fiddle, watch Martha Graham dance, hear Soprano Eva Gauthier sing. There was also art...

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