Update: Roy Morrissey died on July 7, 2011, in Hemet. The tourists called it Tee-mah-COOL-ya, if they called it anything at all. There were only a few hundred people in Temecula in the 1960s, but located as it was halfway…
Category: Desert Artists
Plein Air Painting in the Desert
California is a vast and picturesque region with a great variety of landscape. From the snow-capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the dazzling beaches and coves of the coast; from the flower-covered hills and secluded tree-lined valleys to…
Two Agneses, Middle Earth Maps, Joe De Yong, Daughter of Zorro and more
Eric Merrell: Bringing the California Desert to NYC
Bascom Burns, Tributes to Phil Kovinick, Tim Townsley, Silvio Silvestri and More News
Slow Art, Palm Desert Firehouse Mural, Historic Artist’s Home in Danger and More
With Desert X returning to the Valley in 2019, all eyes will be on installations scaled to Instagram. In the shift to Insta-art, those who work in the enduring tradition of 20th Century Impressionist painters are easily overlooked. One such…
Magic Bus, Mutant Cactus, Desert Light Gallery and More
Neal Lucas Hitch, Agnes Pelton Exhibition, Eric Merrell’s Plein Air Poem and more
If you’re looking for a land art destination now that the Desert X Mirror House is being dismantled, I suggest taking a drive south past the Salton Sea to see Neal Lucas Hitch‘s straw bale observatory. The lunar viewing pod…