Referring to the painting above, entitled West Colorado Avenue, depicting a busy street in Manitou with Pikes Peak looming over the scene, Denver Art Museum director Donald Bear wrote in 1936, “These pictures are most entertaining when there is an obvious connection between the natural motif and its formalization. We refer to the patterning of the posteriors of streamlined motors…”. Strausenback also showed this painting at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Twenty-First Annual Exhibition. (Private collection)