CU Boulder acquires a major trove of modern art

Queen Elizabeth had just traveled the Tube, the first reigning British monarch to ride it. The Tate released 90 pigeons in honor of Picasso’s 90th birthday. The Beatles split up, but the Rolling Stones were still packing Wembley’s Empire Pool. This was London in the early 1970s, and Bud Shark had come to make art. “We arrived during the heyday of swinging London,” said Shark, then in his mid-20s and soon to found a celebrated Colorado printmaking studio with his wife and fellow artist, Barbara.