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Desert Artists, Events, Museum Exhibits, News

Women Artists in Flagstaff, Mystery Painting, Paul Landacre, Desertscapes

by Ann JapengaAugust 11, 2010

Arizona’s Pioneering Women Artists To explore the edges of California desert art, you sometimes have to leave the state. After all, the artists who painted Mt. San Jacinto didn’t pay much allegiance to state lines and many wandered over into…

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Terry Masters’ New Gallery, Mark Kerckhoff Classes, Desert Art Center Lectures

by Ann JapengaAugust 10, 2010

UPDATE: This just in from Terry: “I’m now open Thur-Sun noon to 8pm at least and the doors are usually open when I’m working in the space. Please come by soon. The new studio # is 778-8855.” I’ve been lurking…

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Morongo Art Tours, the Desert Van Gogh and more

by Ann JapengaAugust 3, 2010

October 27-28, 2012, Weekend Two of the Hwy 62 Art Tours, is your chance to visit the backroad studios of dozens of high-desert artists in the Morongo Valley, Joshua Tree and beyond. You’ll have to search out the landscape artists…

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San Diego Landscapes, Desert Art Center, Joshua Tree Classes, David Greene

by Ann JapengaAugust 2, 2010

The Smoketree School is indebted to San Diego for the landscape painters who wandered through Ramona and Julian all the way to the desert country.  Two current exhibits at the San Diego History Center offer a chance to get acquainted…

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Kathi Hilton, Daughter of Smoketree Legend John Hilton, Visits 29 Palms

by Ann JapengaAugust 1, 2010

A man of appetite and energy, John Hilton had an outsized persona and knew how to use it. He is arguably the most famous name in the Smoketree School, not for his paintings alone but for showing the others how…

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Home of the Smoketree School Threatened

by Ann JapengaJuly 29, 2010

The Smoketree School of desert art enjoyed its greatest flowering at the Desert Magazine art gallery on Highway 111 in Palm Desert. While the gallery is long gone, the building (it most recently housed LG’s Steakhouse) has looked much the…

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