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Desert Devotional: The Anza-Borrego Paintings of Jane Culp

by Ann JapengaFebruary 8, 2018 • 11 Comments

Editor’s note: Many people paint the desert but only a few embody the ur-qualities of the early desert artists. Jane Culp is one. She lives in an off-grid straw bale cabin perched above the Anza-Borrego desert. From this solitary outlook,…

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Desert Artists, Featured, Galleries, Museum Exhibits

Collecting Arizona: How Gary Fillmore and David Picerne Tracked Down the State’s Greatest Paintings

by Ann JapengaDecember 27, 2017 • 5 Comments

David Picerne, a real estate developer, and Gary Fillmore, an art appraiser and owner of the Blue Coyote Gallery, went on a hunt to find the state’s very best landscape art, seeking out offerings from the Taos artists, Santa Fe…

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Harry and the Giants: The Geoglyph Photographs of Harry Casey

by Ann JapengaDecember 10, 2017 • 5 Comments

Editor’s note—One morning in the 1980s when I was working as an LA Times reporter, I hopped in an airplane with archaeologist Jay von Werlhof and pilot Harry Casey. Flying out of Brawley, we cruised low over a sandy expanse…

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Out of the Desert: Internment Camp Art Discovered in Banning

by Bill BellOctober 11, 2017 • 3 Comments

Editor’s note: Banning historian Bill Bell recently unearthed a rare trove of art inspired by exile. The hand-stitched scrapbook–poems, essays and linoleum prints–was made by high school students interned at the Poston Relocation Camp, three miles from the Arizona side…

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Victory Ride: The Memoirs of 29 Palms Artist Chuck Caplinger

by Chuck CaplingerSeptember 22, 2017 • 3 Comments

Editor’s note–Chuck Caplinger, a leader in the 29 Palms arts scene, recently published his life story. An Artist’s Journey: Memoirs of the Creative Life of Artist Chuck Caplinger follows Chuck from his childhood in Pasadena, Texas, through his tenure as…

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Desert Artists, Featured, Galleries

Radical Cartography: Obi Kaufmann and The California Field Atlas

by Ann JapengaSeptember 6, 2017 • 1 Comment

There’s a new name in the pantheon of mapmaker artists. Joining a distinguished line-up that includes Desert magazine’s Norton Allen, Obi Kaufmann is a poet-artist-adventurer who set out to inhale the entire state of California by hiking, camping, dreaming, painting…

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