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…
Jim Trolinger and the Magnificent Six: Showdown at Joshua Tree
Desert Devotional: The Anza-Borrego Paintings of Jane Culp
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,…
Collecting Arizona: How Gary Fillmore and David Picerne Tracked Down the State’s Greatest Paintings
Harry and the Giants: The Geoglyph Photographs of Harry Casey
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…