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Flying Rose Dougan: On the Trail of Native American Art

by Ann JapengaFebruary 8, 2022 • 11 Comments

In a bedroom tucked up as far as you can go against the mountain at the end of Arenas Road, Rose Gray Dougan lay dying. She could feel the cool shadows slide down Mount San Jacinto at night. From her…

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Elaine Horwitch: The Mother of Southwest Pop Takes on Palm Springs

by Julie SasseDecember 16, 2021 • 2 Comments

Editor’s note: In the 1980s one of the most influential art dealers in the West decided that Palm Canyon Drive was destined to be an arts district and she was the person to make it happen. To that end, Elaine…

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Eric Merrell at La Quinta Museum, a Headstone for Christina Lillian, Farewell to Kathi Hilton, Agnes’ Dead Reckoning and More

by Ann JapengaDecember 11, 2021 • 2 Comments

Eric Merrell shows widely in the West, but soon you’ll have a rare opportunity to see 35 works of the desert master right here in the Coachella Valley. Merrell completed the series of paintings–showing the “wonder and strength” of the…

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Prairie Fire: Lydia Sohlberg Deere Discovers the Desert

by Ann JapengaNovember 14, 2021 • 5 Comments

When Lydia Sohlberg Deere took her sketch pad down to Palm Canyon in the 1920s, she was a mature woman with a career in hat making behind her. Born in 1873, she operated a millinery shop with her twin sisters…

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Tales of Power: Carlos Castaneda’s Links to the Palm Springs Desert Museum

by E. Breck ParkmanSeptember 23, 2021 • 7 Comments

Ed. Note: Don Juan Matus was a Yaqui sorcerer who helped launch the New Age movement. He may have been an invention of author Carlos Castaneda, but even so he helped teenagers everywhere believe they could turn into blackbirds and…

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C.E. “Smitty” Smith and the Glory Days of the Palm Springs Desert Museum

by E. Breck ParkmanSeptember 11, 2021 • 2 Comments

Ed. note: Like many museums in the pandemic era, the Palm Springs Art Museum (formerly Desert Museum) has been struggling of late. When things are wobbly, it often helps to return to bedrock. What did we first love? What was…

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