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Magic Lessons: The Mythological Worlds of Sharon Bronzan

by Ann JapengaMarch 31, 2020 • 3 Comments

In a classic Sharon Bronzan painting you find a woman alone in a wilderness booby-trapped with daggered cactuses. She doesn’t look away but stares unflinchingly into danger. When she relaxes her hold on strict logic, her life-saving guardians appear: a…

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Cat City Chronicles: The Small Town Photographs of Wilson Ellis

by Ann JapengaFebruary 17, 2020 • 13 Comments

When he was a 9th grader living in a desert outpost, John Emerson needed help with his science project–the use of thermocouples to generate electricity. Most people in 1960s Cathedral City wouldn’t know a thermocouple from a thesaurus. But Emerson…

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The Pelton Papers: A Novel

by Mari CoatesJanuary 20, 2020 • 4 Comments

In Mari Coates’ new novel, real life characters Billie Prigge Seaman, Christina Lillian and the Hillery family are reanimated, as is the beloved little hamlet of Cathedral City itself. I’ve been living with Agnes’ story for more than a decade…

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The Case of the Missing Argonauts: Marjorie Reed’s Lost Mural

by Gary FillmoreJanuary 10, 2020 • 5 Comments

Editor’s note: No one captures the action-adventure ethos of the early desert artists better than Marjorie Reed, best known for her paintings of the Butterfield Overland Stage. You can learn more about Reed from Gary Fillmore, author of All Aboard:…

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Making the Desert Flower: An Alternative Look at Rarely Seen Agnes Pelton Paintings  

by Jan RindfleischNovember 2, 2019 • 9 Comments

Editor’s Note: For those wishing to go deeper into Peltonia we’re pleased to present this essay by Jan Rindfleisch. A former director of the Euphrat Museum of Art, Rindfleisch was involved in the earliest days of Pelton’s rediscovery. Here she…

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Voyage: One Woman’s Journey with a Forgotten Agnes Pelton Painting

by Guest AuthorOctober 18, 2019 • 6 Comments

 Editor’s note: Agnes Pelton would have been pleased by the mass adulation coming her way. But she would be just as delighted by the personal tales that are cropping up. Pelton’s paintings seem to accompany select people in their lives,…

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