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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 • 10 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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Hatchetman: The Desert Exile of Harry Bennett

by Ann JapengaJanuary 21, 2021 • 18 Comments

Harry Bennett had been watching his back trail most of his life, but finally–atop a winding driveway on a high knoll in Desert Hot Springs–he could rest. He picked up his binoculars and scoped his kingdom. The long views in…

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The Way Home: Lynda Keeler’s Neighborhood Maps

by Ann JapengaJanuary 20, 2021 • 4 Comments

Lynda Keeler had been trying out different styles—figurative painting, hard edge—but nothing felt authentic. Contemplating her bedrock truths, she came up with this: I walk. I look. The artist walks miles each day through every neighborhood she’s ever lived in,…

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