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She was a beautiful blonde artist — a friend to Greta Garbo, D.H. Lawrence and Agnes Pelton — and she ruled over a Valhalla of early artists, Sven-Ska, somewhere out in the California desert.
A masterwork of organic architecture by a virtually forgotten 1920s Palm Springs architect, R. Lee Miller, the Araby Rock houses could be mistaken for the Shire from "Lord of the Rings," and over the years, it has attracted its own vivid residents.
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Over decades, Hazel Iona Stiles created an uplifting — almost invisible — piece of land art that could only be appreciated from the elevation of an airplane, or even higher.
In the 1920s, armed with a .38 revolver and a large format camera, Susie Smith 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.
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A little taste of the Sahara right here in southern California.
The Mojave Desert Land Trust has launched ecological guidelines and curriculum for artists looking to create art in the desert.
“200 years ago, before the white man came, it was green. Our ditches lifted the groundwater up."
It is possible to drive for pleasure – leisurely – amidst wide-open spaces and gorgeous landscapes in Southern California. That is, if you go to the desert.
Minerva Hoyt saw the desert being destroyed, and that made her angry.