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Desert Artists, Featured, Museum Exhibits

Sylvia Winslow Scouts the Great White Sink

by Ann JapengaAugust 23, 2022

The Pleistocene shorelines that drew Sylvia Winslow are mostly off-limits now behind the gates of the million-plus acre Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. On a recent trip to research Sylvia’s life, I longed to duck behind those gates. Even…

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Staying Visible: How a Small-Town Couple Boosted Agnes Pelton’s Star

by Jan RindfleischMay 29, 2022

The longtime Cathedral City Cove residents Cornelia and Irving Sussman entered my life in the early 1980s, when they contacted me to support my Staying Visible project, a grassroots collaboration that rediscovered underappreciated artists.[1] I welcomed the couple’s correspondence in…

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Flying Rose Dougan: On the Trail of Native American Art

by Ann JapengaFebruary 8, 2022

In a bedroom tucked up as far as you can go against the mountain at the end of Arenas Road, Rose Gray Dougan lay dying. She could feel the cool shadows slide down Mount San Jacinto at night. From her…

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Elaine Horwitch: The Mother of Southwest Pop Takes on Palm Springs

by Julie SasseDecember 16, 2021

Editor’s note: In the 1980s one of the most influential art dealers in the West decided that Palm Canyon Drive was destined to be an arts district and she was the person to make it happen. To that end, Elaine…

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Eric Merrell at La Quinta Museum, a Headstone for Christina Lillian, Farewell to Kathi Hilton, Agnes’ Dead Reckoning and More

by Ann JapengaDecember 11, 2021

Eric Merrell shows widely in the West, but soon you’ll have a rare opportunity to see 35 works of the desert master right here in the Coachella Valley. Merrell completed the series of paintings–showing the “wonder and strength” of the…

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Prairie Fire: Lydia Sohlberg Deere Discovers the Desert

by Ann JapengaNovember 14, 2021

When Lydia Sohlberg Deere took her sketch pad down to Palm Canyon in the 1920s, she was a mature woman with a career in hat making behind her. Born in 1873, she operated a millinery shop with her twin sisters…

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