Download or read book Painters of Utah s Canyons and Deserts written by Donna L. Poulton and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-05-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly illustrated and exhaustively researched and documented, Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts weaves a sweeping tapestry of artists' attempts to capture the majesty, rare beauty, and raw danger of Utah's frontier West. A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF ARTISTS WHO PAINTED SOUTHERN UTAH, INCLUDING: Solomon Nunes Carvalho Frederick S. Dellenbaugh John Heber Stansfield William Keith Samuel Coleman Thomas Moran Minerva B. K. Teichert Maynard Dixon LeConte Stewart J. Roman Andrus Birger Sandzén Everett Ruess Georgia O'Keeffe Max Ernst Alfred Lambourne Henry L. A. Culmer Donald Beauregard

Download or read book The Life of Maynard Dixon written by Donald J. Hagerty and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maynard Dixon embellished themes that encompassed the timeless truth of the majestic western landscape, the humanity of its memorable people, and the religious mysticism of the Native American. In an attempt to uncover the spirit of the American West, Dixon roamed its plains, mesas, and deserts—drawing, painting, and expressing his creative personality in poems, essays, and letters. Written in a very personal style, this biography includes anecdotes from Dixon’s children, historical vignettes, and interviews with those who knew the artist.

Download or read book Postcards from Mecca written by Leslie Ervin and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Keef Smith was seeking escape from a troubled home life and the havoc of childhood polio when she took a job as postmaster in Mecca, on the edge of California's Salton Sea. She and her cousin Lula Mae Graves set out to photograph the last of the prospectors, burro packers and stage stops in the remote desert to the east. They traveled by burro, foot and Ford though sandy washes and roadless canyons, armed with a .38 revolver and a large format camera. While making postcards for the Post Office spinner rack, the women were remade in the wilderness and wound up creating an unparalleled portrait of one of the lesser-known deserts in the West. Susie Smith's photos were nearly lost to history when--upon her death--they were tossed out by a county estate administrator. A savvy archaeologist jumped into a dumpster and rescued many of the photos in this book. Postcards From Mecca presents portraits of a mysterious land along with the story of its heroic chroniclers, self-taught documentary photographers of the 1920s and '30s.

Download or read book Desert Lake written by Mandy Martin and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is Walmajarri land, and its people live on their Country in the communities of Mulan and Billiluna. This is a story of water. When Sturt Creek flows from the north, it creates a massive inland Lake among the sandy deserts. Not only is Paruku of national significance for waterbirds, but it has also helped uncover the past climatic and human history of Australia. Paruku's cultural and environmental values inspire Indigenous and other artists, they define the place as an enduring home, and have led to its declaration as an Indigenous Protected Area. The Walmajarri people of Paruku understand themselves in relation to Country, a coherent whole linking the environment, the people and the Law that governs their lives. These understandings are encompassed by the Waljirri or Dreaming and expressed through the songs, imagery and narratives of enduring traditions. Desert Lake is embedded in this broader vision of Country and provides a rich visual and cross-cultural portrait of an extraordinary part of Australia.

Download or read book Painters of the Desert written by Ed Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this first book of its kind, "Painters of the Desert," a group of significant desert artists and their work appear for the student and layman. Ed Ainsworth, widely known writer and desert devotee -- long respected for his keen insight and understanding of California history -- has done a great service in selecting the art of leading desert painters who have worked in the best artistic tradition before and during much of this tremendous transformation. Ainsworth knows the desert and knows the painters well. In writing about them and their work, and in selecting the examples shown in this book, he proves his great skill in evaluating the desert's artistic interpreters"--

Download or read book Pandemonium Art Gallery written by Pandemonium Gallery and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandemonium Art Gallery was established in 2013 as a showcase for the offbeat, experimental and obscure. Located on Historic 25th Street in downtown Ogden, Utah, the gallery has earned a strong reputation among lovers of the dark and avant-garde, and those seeking an aesthetic experience outside the norm of ... "traditional" art (or) traditional portraits and landscapes. Offering artwork that spans a diversity of mediums - including paintings, sculptures, t-shirts, prints, refrigerator magnets, and buttons - Pandemonium Art Gallery serves as a platform for the underrepresented work of local artists operating on the fringes of contemporary art.Owned and operated by Jane Font, whose free instructional art videos have found a rapidly growing following on YouTube, Pandemonium Art Gallery is a public space where likeminded individuals can come together to find inspiration in an atmosphere of unbridled expression.Pandemonium Art Gallery coloring books feature the work of local Ogden artist Chris Bodily, Jessica Hollon, Sarah Nicole, and Hillary Livingston.

Download or read book Everyday Watercolor written by Jenna Rainey and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces. This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives. From strokes to shapes, this book covers the basics and helps painters gain confidence in themselves along with inspiration to develop their own style over the course of 30 days. Featuring colorful contemporary art from Mon Voir design agency founder and Instagram trendsetter Jenna Rainey, this book's fresh perspective paints watercolor in a whole new light.

Download or read book The Organic Artist written by Nick Neddo and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an art book which highlights the possibility of using natural, organic materials as art supplies and inspiration.

Download or read book Shadows on the Mesa written by Gary Fillmore and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1909 until the late 1920s, the Wetherill-Colville Guest Ranch in Kayenta, Arizona, was the primary stopover for writers, geologists, archeologists, adventurers, and tourists visiting Monument Valley and the Tsegi Canyon ruins. The artists who visited Kayenta during the early twentieth century included some of the most well known names in the American Southwest. See their paintings, illustrations, and photos of this beloved Southwest region. In addition, you will find full page guest registry entries illustrated by artists such as Maynard Dixon, William Robinson Leigh, James Swinnerton, Carl Oscar Borg, and Gunnar Widforss. The guest book serves as the archival record of those hardy individuals who ventured to the place that was, according to Dixon, "a long ways from anywhere, in any direction." Using over 390 enthralling illustrations and engaging text, this book explores the similarities and differences in the lives, artistic styles, and beliefs of the men and women who considered northern Arizona their favorite region.

Download or read book Agnes Pelton written by Michael Zakian and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Painting Wargaming Figures WWII in the Desert written by Andy Singleton and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional figure painter Andy Singleton shares his experience and tips of the trade with those collecting figures for the North African campaigns in WWII. Covering British, Italian, German and US troops, he gives practical step-by-step guidance for the whole process from preparation and assembly of the figures, through the actual painting techni

Download or read book Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD written by Stewart Cowley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Icons of the Desert written by Roger Benjamin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue accompanies an exhibition organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, curated by Roger Benjamin and coordinated by Andrew C. Weislogel, associate curator and master teacher at the Johnson Museum.

Download or read book Dreamings of the Desert written by Vivien Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aboriginal artists re-enact the creation, the Dreaming, a sacred art envisioned today on board, canvas and textiles in colorful and energetic U-shapes, dots, concentric circles, journey lines and superimposed images.

Download or read book Agnes Pelton written by Gilbert Vicario and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes Pelton became famous for her distinctive metaphysical landscape paintings rooted in the imagery of the American Southwest and California. Drawing chiefly on her own inspirations, superstitions, and beliefs, Pelton manifested emotional states in the form of ethereal veils of light, jagged rock forms, shimmering stars, and exaggerated horizons. Through these imaginary tableaus, she constructed a fantastic world that allowed her to make sense of that which is uncontrollable, establishing for herself a new universal order rooted in the natural world. Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is the first survey of this understudied painter in more than twenty-two years. Examining the artist's work in relation to the movements of abstraction, surrealism, and art of the occult, this vibrant book sheds light on Pelton's remarkable influence on American spiritual modernism. Exhibition Schedule Palm Springs Art Museum Palm Springs, CA November 19, 2020-September 6, 2021

Download or read book Another World The Transcendental Painting Group written by Michael Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment and spiritual illumination. The nine original members of the Transcendental Painting Group were Emil Bisttram, Robert Gribbroek, Lawren Harris, Raymond Jonson, William Lumpkins, Florence Miller Pierce, Agnes Pelton, Horace Towner Pierce and Stuart Walker. They were later joined by Ed Garman. Despite the quality of their works, these Southwest artists have been neglected in most surveys of American art, their paintings rarely exhibited outside of New Mexico. Faced with the double disadvantage of being an openly spiritual movement from the wrong side of the Mississippi, the TPG has remained a secret mostly known only to cognoscenti. Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group aims to address this slight, claiming the group's artists as crucial contributors to an alternative through-line in 20th-century abstraction, one with renewed relevance today. This volume provides a broad perspective on the group's work, positioning it within the history of modern painting and 20th-century American art. Essays examine the TPG in light of their international artistic peers; their involvement with esoteric thought and Theosophy; the group's sources in the culture and landscape of the American Southwest; and the experience of its two female members.

Download or read book The Desert written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of these works - executed in the Sahara and in the deserts of Namibia, Libya, Australia and the American Southwest - have been specially commissioned for this volume."--Jacket.