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Bloom in Luxury: Effie Anderson Smith and the Yucca School of Desert Art

by Steven CarlsonApril 13, 2023 • 1 Comment

Editor’s note: This article by Steven Carlson suggests an entirely new school of desert art. While we’ve deemed the Coachella Valley painters the Smoketree School, Effie Anderson Smith (Steven’s great-great aunt) devoted much of her work to the misunderstood yucca.…

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Back to the Pleistocene: Adventures with a Forgotten Taos Modern  

by Ann JapengaDecember 7, 2022 • 19 Comments

On a November day in 1961, Emma Lou Davis was returning home from an archaeology dig in her usual grunge attire: Shorts, heavy boots and work shirt. Her sweat-sculpted hair stuck out in all directions, her fingernails were grimy, face…

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Sharon Ellis, California Biennial, Rita Deanin Abbey, Ol’ Paint and More

by Ann JapengaOctober 14, 2022 • 3 Comments

It seems the desert herself has elected an ambassador and sent her out into the world to represent us. Sharon Ellis–who works quietly in Yucca Valley–has a show, New Works on Paper, at the Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles through October…

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Happy Are the Painters: How a Cocktail Waitress and a Roadside Artist Sparked a Desert Art Happening

by Ann JapengaSeptember 28, 2022 • 19 Comments

Each day when she finished her shift at the Shadow Mountain Club in Palm Desert, Evelyn Chevoor swung by the base of the mountain where Fred Chisnall was painting beside the panel truck that doubled as his home. Chisnall was…

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Sylvia Winslow Scouts the Great White Sink

by Ann JapengaAugust 23, 2022 • 14 Comments

The Pleistocene shorelines that drew Sylvia Winslow are mostly off-limits now behind the gates of the million-plus acre Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. On a recent trip to research Sylvia’s life, I longed to duck behind those gates. Even…

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Staying Visible: How a Small-Town Couple Boosted Agnes Pelton’s Star

by Jan RindfleischMay 29, 2022 • 10 Comments

The longtime Cathedral City Cove residents Cornelia and Irving Sussman entered my life in the early 1980s, when they contacted me to support my Staying Visible project, a grassroots collaboration that rediscovered underappreciated artists.[1] I welcomed the couple’s correspondence in…

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