Editor’s note–To those who remember him when he lived on the Morongo Reservation in the 1930s, Sadakichi Hartmann was a tattered, scrawny asthmatic who passed his days painting his cherished Mt. San Jacinto. To old friends like Walt Whitman, Ezra…
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Hazel’s Garden: Outsider Art Discovered in Wonder Valley
Unexpected Beauty: Robert Cole Caples’ Nevada
Jim Trolinger and the Magnificent Six: Showdown at Joshua Tree
Desert Devotional: The Anza-Borrego Paintings of Jane Culp
Editor’s note: Many people paint the desert but only a few embody the ur-qualities of the early desert artists. Jane Culp is one. She lives in an off-grid straw bale cabin perched above the Anza-Borrego desert. From this solitary outlook,…
Collecting Arizona: How Gary Fillmore and David Picerne Tracked Down the State’s Greatest Paintings
Harry and the Giants: The Geoglyph Photographs of Harry Casey
Editor’s note—One morning in the 1980s when I was working as an LA Times reporter, I hopped in an airplane with archaeologist Jay von Werlhof and pilot Harry Casey. Flying out of Brawley, we cruised low over a sandy expanse…