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Desert Artists, Featured, Museum Exhibits

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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Outpost of Abstraction: Richard Guy Walton on the Comstock

by Ann JapengaJune 17, 2021 • 4 Comments

If Cathedral City was an unlikely place to nurture groundbreaking artists like Agnes Pelton, Virginia City, Nevada, is even more unlikely. Twenty-six miles south of Reno, the frontier boomtown rests on a mountainside at 6,200 feet. It’s riddled with abandoned…

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Headstone for a Hero: The Quest to Mark Susie Keef Smith’s Grave

by Ann JapengaJune 5, 2021 • 4 Comments

Postcards from Mecca is a hero’s journey. Pioneer photographer Susie Keef Smith triumphed over heat, disability and roadless wilderness to document the 1920s desert east of the Salton Sea. But every heroic tale requires a villain. For Susie, it was…

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Out of the Blue! George Frederick Gleich’s 1924 “Sketches from Life and Nature”

by Rebecca Ragan AkinsMay 27, 2021 • 11 Comments

Never underestimate the benefits of publishing on the California Desert Art website!  A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of having my article, “Smoke Tree George: The Fabled Life and Times of George Frederick Gleich,” posted, and, over…

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Michael Moore, Carl Chew, Cholla Chairs, Triassic Quilts and More

by Ann JapengaApril 15, 2021 • 3 Comments

Inspired by the recent California Desert Art article on Lynda Keeler’s maps, Michael Moore sent some of his own “imaginary topographics”. For decades, the widely exhibited artist has been exploring and mapping the northern Great Basin Desert. He grew up…

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Weshoyot Alvitre Responds to “INDIANLAND” Installation

by Weshoyot AlvitreApril 10, 2021 • 8 Comments

Weshoyot Alvitre is a Tongva and Scottish Comic Book artist and illustrator. Her piece TONGVALAND was created in 2019. This op-ed is written in response to the Desert X exhibition in Palm Springs, California, and installation of large oversized “INDIANLAND”…

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