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…
Category: Galleries
Elaine Horwitch: The Mother of Southwest Pop Takes on Palm Springs
Michael Moore, Carl Chew, Cholla Chairs, Triassic Quilts and More
Hatchetman: The Desert Exile of Harry Bennett
The Way Home: Lynda Keeler’s Neighborhood Maps
Allan McCollum: Mt. Signal and its Sand Spikes
Jon Gnagy: The DIY Gospel of America’s First TV Art Teacher
A Celebration of the Smoke Tree by Millicent Harvey and Terry Masters
Hazel’s Garden: Outsider Art Discovered in Wonder Valley
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,…