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Desert Artists, Featured, Museum Exhibits

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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King of Bohemia: Sadakichi Hartmann in the San Gorgonio Pass

by Bill BellAugust 2, 2018 • 1 Comment

Editor’s note–To those who remember him when he lived on the Morongo Reservation in the 1930s, Sadakichi Hartmann was a tattered, scrawny asthmatic who passed his days painting his cherished Mt. San Jacinto. To old friends like Walt Whitman, Ezra…

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Desert Artists, Featured, Galleries

Hazel’s Garden: Outsider Art Discovered in Wonder Valley

by Ann JapengaJuly 8, 2018 • 9 Comments

Despite its current popularity with fashion photographers, Wonder Valley can feel godforsaken on a hot summer day. It was just such a day when Joe Barrett huddled beneath a shade canopy and sent his drone into the sky to take…

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Unexpected Beauty: Robert Cole Caples’ Nevada

by Ann JapengaJune 14, 2018 • 6 Comments

Sixteen-year-old Robert Cole Caples left New York City for the West in 1924, landing in the Great Basin desert of Nevada. When the boy got his first look at Pyramid Lake, his future as Nevada’s leading artist of the 20th…

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Miscellaneous

The Golden Age of Warner Graves: Back to the Canyons

by Ann JapengaMarch 31, 2018 • 5 Comments

With so many international artists now sampling desert themes, it’s refreshing to meet a painter who is not a tourist but is genetically rooted in this place. Via his grandparents, Warner Graves III is connected to many epochal events in…

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Jim Trolinger and the Magnificent Six: Showdown at Joshua Tree

by Jim TrolingerMarch 24, 2018 • 4 Comments

Ed. note: In the grand tradition of early desert painters, Jim Trolinger sees plein air painting as a team sport. We previously posted Jim’s tale of his group’s Death Valley expedition. In his latest account, the optical physicist and his…

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