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A Celebration of the Smoke Tree by Millicent Harvey and Terry Masters

by Ann JapengaMarch 12, 2019 • 7 Comments

March 12, 2019–Millicent Harvey and I stood on the bank of Araby Wash and surveyed a gutted expanse. Some carcasses of smoke trees were snagged under the Highway 111 bridge, but the dense grove–a favorite of painters and photographers for…

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Hail San Jacinto! When Desert X Met the Mountain

by Ann JapengaMarch 7, 2019 • 8 Comments

March 7, 2019–When I last wrote about Desert X it was to warn you that the art carnival might be coming for your mountain. Little did I know they were coming for mine–the inviolate north face of Mt. San Jacinto.…

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Desert X is Coming For Your Mountains

by Ann JapengaFebruary 1, 2019 • 18 Comments

February 1, 2019–In the next few weeks, desert art will have a moment. We’ll be gracing the pages of major magazines and newspapers around the world: Vogue, Architectural Digest, W Magazine. If the 2017 coverage is any gauge, the 2019…

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Postcards From Mecca: How to Save a Desert Artist

by Ann JapengaJanuary 9, 2019 • 6 Comments

In the last couple of years I’ve feasted endlessly on 2,000 historic photos of the unexplored desert east of the Salton Sea. Taken by 1930s Mecca postmaster Susie Keef Smith and her cousin Lula Mae Graves, the collection offers an…

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Rudolph d’Heureuse: The Earliest Photographs of the Wild Mojave

by Ann JapengaDecember 10, 2018 • 4 Comments

December 10, 2018–Jeff Lapides was laying out pages for historian John Robinson’s final book when he noticed some very old photos by a man with a fancy name: Rudolph d’Heureuse. “I thought who the heck was this French guy and…

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Collecting on the Edge: George Wanlass Travels to the Outer Limits of Western Art

by Ann JapengaNovember 1, 2018 • 4 Comments

When a cowboy starts collecting Western art, you’d expect to see a lot of horses and saddles. That’s not true for Utah rancher George Wanlass. As he amassed art for the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, he was drawn…

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