Tag: Ronald Backer

Billie’s Taxi, Tribute to Edan Hughes, Adobe Dweller Frances Nugent and More

by Ann JapengaDecember 3, 2010 • 2 Comments

Fans of Cathedral City artist Agnes Pelton have long awaited the book by the City’s first mayor–and a friend to the early artists–Robert Hillery. At last Cathedral City: the Early Years 1925 to 1981 is in print. You can meet…

Randall Tipton Returns to Tahquitz and More

by Ann JapengaOctober 10, 2010 • 0 Comments

With the desert strangely warm this season, the snakes have awakened early and artists from colder places are busy in the canyons. One such visitor, Randall David Tipton, is a spellbinding landscape painter well-known in Portland and the Northwest–but he…