Tag: Robert Rishell

Happy Are the Painters: How a Cocktail Waitress and a Roadside Artist Sparked a Desert Art Happening

by Ann JapengaSeptember 28, 2022

Each day when she finished her shift at the Shadow Mountain Club in Palm Desert, Evelyn Chevoor swung by the base of the mountain where Fred Chisnall was painting beside the panel truck that doubled as his home. Chisnall was…

Ginger Renner: Mother-Muse of Desert Painters

by Ann JapengaJune 23, 2011

For R. Brownell McGrew’s first ever one-man show in 1967, Ginger Renner packed nearly 1000 guests into her Desert Southwest Art Gallery in Palm Desert. The crowd spilled onto the then-deserted Highway 111, high on art and the owner’s infamous…