Tag: Bill Bell

King of Bohemia: Sadakichi Hartmann in the San Gorgonio Pass

by Bill BellAugust 2, 2018

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…

Out of the Desert: Internment Camp Art Discovered in Banning

by Bill BellOctober 11, 2017

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…