Tag: Carl Zimmerman

Carl Zimmerman: A Granddaughter’s Quest for an Early Desert Painter

by Rita Zimmerman CollierNovember 2, 2011

Ed. Note: Rita Collier shares her intrepid hunt for facts about her grandfather, a desert painter of the 1920s and 30s. While not all quests are this fruitful, Collier’s tale shows what can happen when you start looking. In the…

Lomaland, Pil-O-Rox, Diego Rivera, Transcendental Painting Group and More News

by Ann JapengaJune 18, 2011

Art and Theosophy at Lomaland You don’t have to labor through Helena Blavatsky’s tomes to get a taste for Theosophy, an esoteric belief system that inspired Agnes Pelton and so many others. The teachings are notoriously opaque to modern minds,…