HomeMy WebLinkAboutHonorariums for Four Artists - Painter's Path Proj.Contract No. C27570A-D
CITY OF PALM DESERT
COMMUNITY SERVICES
STAFF REPORT
REQUEST: CONSIDERATION TO APPROVE HONORARIUMS FOR
EACH OF THE FOUR ARTISTS PRESENTING
PROPOSALS FOR THE PAINTER'S PATH PROJECT
SUBMITTED BY: RICHARD L. TWEDT
DATE: APRIL 10, 2008
CONTENTS: 1. EXAMPLES OF ARTIST'S ARTWORK AND BIOS
2. COPY OF THE PAINTER'S PATH RFP
3. COPY OF AMERICAN ART REVIEW ARTICLE
Recommendation:
By Minute Motion, approve honorariums in the amount of $2,000 each to Gary
Price, Dee Clements, Terry Allen, and Clay Dahlberg for the Painter's Path
project. Funds are available in Account No. 436-4650-454-3010.
Executive Summary:
At its meeting of February 19, 2008, the Art in Public Places Commission
approved the concept of honoring the artists of Painter's Path. The Commission
instructed staff to develop a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the project, and
invite Dee Clements, Terry Allen, Clay Dahlberg, and Gary Price to compete for
the $250,000 commission. Each artist was contacted by staff and all responded
positively to the invitation. The proposed sculptures will eventually be installed in
a visible area near the Visitor Center in the Eric Johnson Memorial Gardens.
Discussion:
An estimated 200 artists came from the coastal areas of California to the desert
to paint the natural landscape as early as 1905 with the heyday being the 1920s
and continuing to the 1950s when the tradition had all but vanished. "The artistic
legacy left by these painters is a milestone in the history of American art, a
specific time and place that has been largely under -recognized in the mainstream
of landscape painting until recently when prices for their work has soared to
astronomical heights" (from American Art Review article). Many of the artists
visited and stayed permanently in Palm Desert and the surrounding areas, such
as, Maynard Dixon, Orpha Klinker, John Hilton, Jimmy Swinnerton, Bill Bender,
Agnes Pelton, Fred Chrisnall, Fred Penney, Sally Ward, Gordon Coutts, Paul
Grimm, Clyde Forsythe, Carl Eytel, Stephen Willard, William Darling, Harry
Wagoner, Fred Sayre, Burt Procter, Jack Smith, Robert Rishell, and Larry Sitter.
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Terry Allen Page 1 of 10
Gallery Paule Anglim Artists Exhibitions Press Releases
Terry Allen
Images- Reviews
BORN in Wichita, Kansas, May 7, 1943; raised in Lubbock, Texas.
EDUCATION
Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, B.F.A., 1966.
Independent artist working since 1966 in a wide variety of inedia including musical and theatrical perFormances, sculpture, {
installations which incorporate any and all of these media.
Taught drawing classes at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1968-69; Guest Artist, University of California at Berkeley,
University at Fresno, 1971-79.
AWARDS
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1970, 1978, 1985; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1986; Bessie Award, New York, 1
Francisco, 1986;Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco, 1989; Wexner Center for the Arts,ArtisYs Residency Fellowship, Coli
Club Award, Best Club Interior, RED JACKET, 1996; Buddy Holly Walk of Fame Inductee, Lubbock,Texas, 1997.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Terry Allen: Voidville, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
2004
Voidville and Brands, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Dugout I, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Dugout II, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2001
Prints, Drawing,Writing,works by Terry Allen, Sheehan Gallery,Walla Walla,WA
Study Drawings by Terry Allen, Gallery 68,Austin,TX
2000
Terry Allen: Belief(Study Works), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Studies for"Countee Music,"Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Works on Paper, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College Art Center, Providence, RI
1999
Terry Allen: IAH Airport Working Drawings, Moody Gallery, Houston,TX
Voices in the Wilderness, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth,VA
1998
Publik Werks, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
1997
Terry Allen: Prints 1974-1997, Michael Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Terry Allen: Prints, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas,TX
1996
Liquid Assets, L.A. Louver Gallery,Venice, CA Moody Gallery, Houston,TX
1995
Bronzes& Drawings, UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
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makes country rock records with his own Panhandle
Mystery Band in Lubbock, Texas. Allen is perhaps
Elizabeth Murray best known for his cross-disciplinary project Youth in
Asia, which was initiated in 1983. The numerous
Bruce Nauman works in this series reflect on the experience of the
Vietnam War by exploring American value systems
Nam June Paik through a variety of ineans ranging from mass-
cultural heroes to fairy tale protagonists like ethos of
Niki de Saint Phalle roadhouses in the American Southwest.
Alexis Smith Allen's diverse talents and experiences are
highlighted in his project, Trees, for the Stuart
Kiki Smith Collection. He remarks upon the continual loss of
natural environment at UCSD by salvaging three
eucalyptus trees from a grove razed to make way for
William Wegman new campus buildings. These trees, preserved and
encased in skins of lead, stand like ghosts within a
Related Link Category still-thriving eucalyptus grove between the Central
!��brary and the Faculty Club. Although they
Staff :.=tensibly represent displacement or loss, these
trees offer a kind of compensation: one emits a
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�Pries of recorded songs and the other a lively
Membership '„quence of poems and stories created and arranged
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Publications specifically for this project.
Press For the music tree (2MB) William T. Wiley, known
for his paintings filled with literary puns and
eccentric maps, sings Ghost Riders in the Sky,
Stuart Collection, 0010 accompanying himself on a homemade instrument;
University of California, West Texas singer Joe Ely sings Mona Lisa Squeeze
San Diego My Guitar, while the Maines Brothers work pedal
9500 Gilman Drive steel guitars, a Thai band plays, and
�a�olla, CA 92093-0010 filmmaker/musician David Byrne sings a song he
composed especially for this project.
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fax (858) 534-9713 For the literary tree, Bale Allen delivers his poem
about scabs, the poet Philip Levine recites, plus
Webmaster there are Navajo chants, translations of Aztec
7ane Peterson poems, duck calls, and many other contributions.
There are currently about five hours of material on
each tree, and Allen and others are at work on future
contributions.
The third tree in Allen's installation is near the
entrance to the vast geometric library building and
remains silent-perhaps another form of the tree of
knowledge, perhaps a reminder that trees must be
cut down to print books and build buildings, perhaps
a dance form, or perhaps noting that one can acquire
knowledge both through observation of nature and
through research. This tree stands out quietly in the
rather stark man-made site at the library entrance.
On the other hand, one could walk through the grove
several times without noticing Allen's two
unobtrusive Trees. Not only do these trees reinvest
a natural site with a literal sense of magic but they
implicitly make connections between nature and
death and the life of the spirit. It is not surprising
that students have dubbed this area the "Enchanted
Forest."
Folklore: People have been permitted - even
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"This glass ship is an art work that refers to the natural and
geologic history of California. Sediment gathered from the
ocean floor four miles off the coast of San Francisco was
placed inside in 1993. This sediment contains diverse
mineral and organic matter extracted from the landscape by
the rivers that flow to the sea through the Golden Gate. The
greenhouse environment of the ship interacts subtly with
these materials producing ongoing natural cycles of growth,
decay, and rebirth."
—John Roloff and Renny Pritikin
The piece was fabricated by NGA Industries and Wesco Industries, who partially
contributed their services. John Roloff's main approach in his work is the poetic and
psychological, related to nature and the environment. With his early background in
geology and studies in marine biology, his work is informed by natural and geological
processes, along with the psychological/spiritual metaphors analogous to those processes.
Rather than working exclusively in any one medium, Roloff undertakes an extensive
research and conceptualization component, then utilizes a wide variety of inedia to
develop a specifically site-related work.
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Esplanade. Toting a brief case, the stature conveys a sense of motion as
its hand is extended as if for a handshake.
A prolific and highly versatile artist,Terry Allen has worked since 1966 in a wide variety of
media, including musical and theatrical performances, sculpture, painting, drawing and
video, as well as installations which incorporate any and all of these media.
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H. Clay Dahlberg the artist Page 1 of 3
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had his sights set on becoming a cowboy right from �,� �, ,.x �,„
the beginning. He was, after all, a Texas boy who had ��� �, ��`.�"'� ���� �;'
been born in San Antonio and would grow up in the • »�� �
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were content with toy guns, stickhorses and Saturday �; � � .,�,
matinees, Clay Dahlberg went after the real thing. He ,.�;��, * �'�d�� . �
had a Cotulla connection...an ancestral attachment to � tk,;�;�
the South Texas brush country where the real � ; �
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Clay Dahlberg's childhood experiences from the ,
summers he spent on a ranch near the small Texas -; .�
town of Cotulla marked him for life. He absolutely , �� _
idolized his great-grandfather, B. ]. Pate, who seemed �:'�s, .,. �-, ;�,_ _ `_ ,;;E , �
to have been born to be a brushpopper, as was his :� � �,,: �_ �° ��;, ., �,
son, Clay's Uncle Roy. , -,.:�a , � ��,..:.�t.,.�„�-�; _._ ,� a�"`�G
� l-hese were his heroes...not the flimsy illusion of fiction, but the roug
r�eality of ranch life and of inen made for hard country and horses. Tf
impressions and images Clay Dahlberg carried away from Cotulla wo
f�fetime. They would become the critical core of his art.
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1, ° � �, „ he road to becoming an artist is a tough trail to travel. Charlie Russ
"�� .- poorly paid horse wrangler on an open range cow outfit before pick
, T � �� � J ''�' M1� �aintbrush. Clay Dahlberg rodeoed, worked as a feed salesman, and
� �'-• � �"' � ,�,� shoe horses long before he ever entertained the idea of bein g an arti
� '' chance encounter with a sculptor of western subjects at the Houston
,�'""�"°�� Show and Rodeo, around 1970, which first fired his imagination and
the path toward a career in fine art.
He studied and struggled at the outset to learn the technical aspects of his new
calling. But real art resides in the heart, and his was brimful and overflowing with
enough ideas and inspiration for a whole barn full of bronzes. The creative
impetus of Clay Dahlberg's art was, from the first, to commemorate his own
horseback heritage in a tribute to western tradition.
Clay Dahlberg has received his share of critical acclaim and western art accolades
over the years. But he has never sought out, or needed, the endorsement of
critics and connoisseur collectors. His art is aimed at an audience of cowboys and
the kind of folks who have a history with horses. And that audience has been
there for him with encouragement and in strong support for thirty years and then
some.
As Clay's command of the sculptural medium has grown over the years, so too
has his range of subject matter. From his initial focus on cowboys and horses, his
interests have expanded to include not only those familiar favorites, but also a
complete panoply of fresh ideas from both the historical and contemporary west.
His recent creations include everything from a delicate pair of miniature spurs
to the monument-size composition called "Wild Men and Wild Cattle". Native
American warriors, Mexican pistoleros, hunters, fishermen, ranch kids, old
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men with the memories...and his heroes with big hats and horses...are all �
presented with pride as characters in Clay Dahlberg's continuing celebration of the
spirit of the west.
Dahlberg's work is in private schools and public collections in the United State,.
and Europe. He was chosen to exhibit in the first all-sculpture show held at the
National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. His work was among
that of ten artists used to illustrate "XIT, The American Cowboy." His sculpture,
"In a Storm" was awarded the Best of Show award at the Texas Cowboy Artists
Association Annual Award Exhibition in 1974 and he was invited by the American
Revolution Bicentennial Committee to represent the state of Texas in Philadelphia
in 1976.
Commissions include:
■ Life size portrait bust - Courthouse Square - Georgetown, Texas
■ 7' tall sculpture entitled "Rough Men and Tough Times" Y.O. Ranch Hotel,
Kerrville, Texas
■ Life size standing figure, portrait of Col. E.S.C. Robertson, Salado Texas
■ Life size portrait bust of Homer Bryce, Stephen F. Austin University,
Nacogdoches, Texas
Related Links:
■ Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
■ Pearce Western Art Collection at Navarro Colleqe
■ Artman.net - Scul tors related Director
Credits:
■ Photography:
■ Kaye Marvins - Houston, Texas
■ John McCaine - Houston, Texas
■ White Oak Studio - Fredericksburg, Texas
■ Text:
■ Don Hedgpeth - Medina, Texas
■ Web site design:
■ Ryan N. DohertX - Austin, Texas
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As Clay's command of the sculptural medium has grown over the years, so too has his range of sub
his initial focus on cowboys and horses, his interests have expanded to include not only those fan
also a complete panoply of fresh ideas from both the historical and contemporary west.
His recent creations include everything from a delicate pair of miniature spurs to the monument-s
called "Wild Men and Wild Cattle". Native American warriors, Mexican pistoleros, hunters,
kids, old men with the memories...and his heroes with big hats and horses...are all presented wit
characters in Clay Dahlberg's continuing celebration of the spirit of the west.
Click the images below to see more detail of each piece.
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Gary Lee Price TM Lifting the Human S�irit Through Scul�ture
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Gary Lee Price sculptures capture this unique human `� ' '�'"='�
spirit. This is the essence of his work. This is his life's �- - r'
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public and private collections throughout the world. One ��' � �
of the largest libraries in the world, the Hong Kong y ; 'f� . '
Central Library, is graced by the recent acquisition of ���`� ��� ' �� r
twelve Gary Lee Price life-size bronze sculptures. This �':•
impressive display includes bronzes of intrigued oun {' . � ? ��
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readers, happy children releasing doves, boys and girls .� A;� '
playing with shells in water, some holding beautiful �
flowers, and others soaring through the air as though
weightless. Additionally, two round frogs, "Puffed Up Princes," are stationed as sentinels at the entrance
of the children's library.
The 11-foot "Celebration!" featuring joyous children celebrating life and soaring around a globe, was
first unveiled in Surrey, England at the American Community Schools. The most recent of these was
dedicated in Decatur, Georgia by former First Lady, Rosalyn Carter. A 22-foot version of a similar
sculpture is located at the entrance of the corporate headquarters for NuSkin International in Provo,
Utah.
Gary's 12-foot angel, "Messenger" monument, in Iceland, honors over 400 early immigrants to the
United States.
Gary's sculpture "Communion." a 15-foot monument portraying grasping hands, graces the United
Methodist Church of Brentwood, Tennessee. The interaction-of-hands theme has been an important
aspect of his work as reflected in other pieces such as "Synerg,y," Helping Hand," "Ascent." "Circle of
Peace," and "Circle of Friends." Uplifting others, helping others, and joining hands with others in
brotherhood and sisterhood are essential parts of the life of Gary Lee Price. Perhaps the unexpected and
tragic loss of his parents at age six and the subsequent abuse anchored within him the importance of
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enduring and positive relationships, and of the need to see and depict humanity in a positive light and on
an upward journey.
Gary finds travel and research an important part of his life. For two years he lived in Germany, he spent
six months in Israel, one month touring the jungles and ruins of Mexico and Guatemala, and one month
in Egypt. He visited eleven different European countries for three months. A recent trip found Gary and
his family in Giverny, France doing research on one of his latest life-size sculptures of Claude Monet
and "Monet's Gaggle".
In 1991, Gary was elected a member of the National Sculpture Society. In November 2001, he received
the "Governor's Mansion Artist Award," from Governor Michael Leavitt of Utah, for his outstanding
support of the arts. Aside from his sculpture images gracing the covers of various magazines and books,
the December 2003 issue of Utah Valley Magazine featured a cover story on Gary and his career
entitled, "The Spirit of Giving." In 2005, it was announced that this prolific sculptor has been selected to
create the 300-foot Statue of ResponsibilitX on the west coast of the United States.
His works are included in public and private collections in homes, galleries, museums, libraries,
corporations, cities, and educational institutions throughout the world, including the following:
Springville Museum of Art; Salt Lake County Permanent Arts Collection; Culver Military Academy of
Culver, Indiana; American Community Schools of Surry, England; Westside Preparatory School of
Chicago; LDS Museum of Church History & Art of Salt Lake City, Utah; Rich De Voss Women's and
Children's Hospital of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Dallas Arboretum; Birmingham Botanical Gardens;
Scottish Rite Children's Hospital of Dallas, Texas; Gladney Center of Fort Worth; Galleria Paseo Mall
of Puerto Rico; Santa Clara City Library ; Bluegrass Airport of Lexington, Kentucky; Neverland Ranch
of Los Olivios, California; University of California Berkeley; Cessna Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas;
Indianapolis Children's Museum; and many more places of private and public gatherings.
Gary Lee Price has been sculpting professionally for over 25 years and has supported a successful fine
art business during those years. His latest corporate endeavor is the creation of Little Bitz of Inspiration.
This is an exciting company that will increase awareness of Gary's work and passion for creating a better �
world. Some of his all-time favorite works will be produced in collectible pewter form.
The 50-year-old sculptar resides in Springville, Utah. He credits his success to his mother, who instilled
in Gary the ability to express himself through art; to his friend and wife, Lanea, who offers constant love
and support; and to their five boys-Zachariah, Isaiah, Tyrone, Raphael, and Justin-who provide constant
inspiration. "My passion for art and my belief that art empowers and lifts the human spirit has only �
grown stronger throughout my life. I have been blessed with many generous and selfless mentors, and
my dream is to pass on those gifts to others. Gary believes in 'perpetual student-hood' and teaches
regularly at his studio in his hometown of Springville, Utah.
Gary muses, "I hope I can assist the world in visualizing a place where fences and boundaries, both real
and imagined, are non-existent; a place where bias and prejudice are long forgotten; and finally, a place
where acts of kindness, mutual respect, and love are everyday happenings."
"The spirit of man is what makes him unique above all of God's creations."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Gary has created a wide variety of sculptures over the years. We have divided Gary's sculptures into the
categories of Children, Garden Sculptures, Inspirational, Great Contributors and Western/Wildlife to
help you find a sculpture that will be a perfect fit for your home, garden, office or any place you would
like.
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Statue Installations
Testimonials
Many of our friends and customers have acquired a bronze statue of Gary's and have installed it in their
homes, gardens, or places of business. Many have also taken the opportunity to donate a statue to a
church, library, park, or a number of other causes that they felt strongly about. Here are pictures of a few
of these installations and what a few of our friends have to say regarding the bronze statues.
Needham, MA-Circle of Peace �� � '�����`�� �������� ������`�"���"-����� �!
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"An issue in today's suburban communities is that families ' ��"�
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children's activities. True community interaction between ►-. � �`�wF� -
neighbors and others happens infrequently if they are not - •���" " `� �'`�
within that immediate group. ��� � � ,� ,
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We chose Gary's statue for many reasons, but the �
fundamental premise was to create a unique, meaningful
element of attraction to which families from the entire � .-������� �.���� :, ����° . � �
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town would be drawn and then inspired "by accident" to
naturally interact.
The Circle of Peace has become a magnet to which all children and their families connect. They meet
and interact with others they might never meet. New baby sitter connections, new playmates for their
children, opportunities to meet new friends, all occur around the Circle of Peace.
Every day we see the magic of children running to clasp the hands of the other "children" and complete
the circle. An artist created a post card featuring it, hundreds of photo opportunities have occurred for
parents and their children around it, an Australian magazine touring the US for best examples of public
spaces ran a photo of our Needham Circle of Peace as an example of excellent public spaces, parents tell
me and the committee thank you for having placed the statue because their children love it so much and
I had one woman tell me just this week that every time she sees the statue it just "takes her breath
away." Even in the winter there are often little footprints in the snow leading up to the statue."
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Paul A. Good
Founder/Chair
The Needham Community Revitalization Trust Fund
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� ; � ��,- The statue in front of the Nu Skin Enterprises corporate headquarters is a
t"�„�,�- beautiful symbol of our mission to be a force for good -- particularly
our commitment to creating a better world for children. Guests who visit the
� � , �• building are always impressed with the striking architecture and what the
statue represents for us as a company. We commend Gary Price for this
` ' �� � beautiful work of art. It is a wonderful iece to showcas
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Hospice at Greensboro, Inc.-Circle of Peace
Gary Lee Price's Circle of Peace statue is the focal point of our therapeutic
garden at Kids Path. Kids Path is a unique program created by Hospice and �
Palliative Care of Greensbaro in North Carolina that provides palliative care ,
for medically fragile children and counseling for grieving children. As the � �„
focal point of our garden, the statue honors the missing child. But for many . `� !
of our children who are saddened by grief it is much, much more. It is not ^ � ����
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uncommon to see a child who witnesses the statue for the first time, to grab
hands with the figures and complete the circle. Many of our grieving
children feel guilty about wanting to play, or feel so sad from their loss; they think they will never play
again. The Circle of Peace, which immortalizes children experiencing pure joy, reminds us all that play
is part of living. Play is joyous and play will continue. Finally, the individual figures of the statue were
provided as naming opportunities for our donors when the garden was constructed. When shown a
picture of the intended installation of the Circle of Peace, one long-time donor replied, "Save one of the
boys for me! I lost and infant child, and this way he can play for eternity."
Gilbert Davidson-Ascent
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� "The statue named Ascent has hung in the conference room in our company. It has
� been a powerful reminder to our o f ficers t hat t heir jobs are to assist others in their
_ _ _.� endeavors. It is interesting to watch them as they walk by the figure and usually
�' y' ` touch the figures as the pass by. The statue is now attached to a wall outside our
' ;: 3 home and we can rarely walk by without touching it."
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Request for Proposals: Sculpture Honoring the Artists of Painter's Path
The Art in Public Places Commission would like to invite you to submit a model
(presentation drawings for Terry Allen) of a sculpture that would honor the "plein air"
artists of the desert. The tableau should include two life-size bronze figures, one of a
male and one of a female, who would represent the artists that came to the desert to
paint. The tableau should consist of both figures depicting the process of creating a
desert "plein air" painting with easels and assorted materials required for its production.
Historical research has estimated that as many as 200 artists may have visited the
desert to paint between 1905 through the early 1950s. Many of the artists stayed for
prolonged periods of time while others stayed permanently. These artists are profiled in
Ed Ainsworth's classic book on Coachella Valley painters, Painters of the Desert.
Included in the book are artists such as Orpha Klinker, sister to Zeno Klinker, Edgar
Bergan's joke writer. Others were Jimmy Swinnerton, John Hilton, Fred Penney, Agnes
Pelton, Paul Grimm, Gordon Coutts, and Carl Bray to mention a few. The artistic legacy
left by these painters is a milestone in the history of American art, a specific time and
place that has been largely under-recognized in the mainstream of landscape painting
until recently when prices for their work has soared to astronomical heights.
You will receive an honorarium of$2,000 for your modellpr�sentation drawings. Upon
signing the Memorandum of Agreement and returning the enclosed W-9 Form for the
honorarium, a check in the amount of$1,500 will be sent to you and the remainder will
be sent upon receipt of the model. The selected artist will receive a $250,000
commission.
Please contact me at 760-837-1665 or email, rtwedtCa�ci.palm-desert.ca.us. The
deadline for your model is Friday, October 10, 2008. Mailing address: Richard L.
Twedt, City of Palm Desert, Visitor Center, 72-567 Highway 111, Palm Desert, CA
92260.
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•.�.:�� i�:�. ti>rlx ars who visited chis subjrrr
°�""''�'`` � ;,.: .haparral that in the spring yielded expans-
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matter on am'regular basis, cacept ti�r dlc ' �": �•�« `
E�rropean and American Orientalists of a monsoonal condicions gave forth skies of
prior generation who found ittnpiracion in beautiful and cndless cloud patterns. The
, '� wintrr brought`rains and snow in the up-
the Saharan wastelands a��d the oa.ses of th: s <_ ', k y �,ti .
i�liddl�East.The Imprrssionists of rhe ear '� -�'" � ''� y_; ` per elevations, and the majestic peaks re-
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h� twentieth centurv, in search of new sub '�-r' � ': �'ealed purple tones and shifting shadows
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Calif��mia coast toward the inland empireti. eve. In short, the artists'perseverance fmm
The coastal �ities that were madc lutih cncumbering notions was rewarded with
through civilization gave wav quickly rr� tiubject matter thac was tremendousiy exot-
� the desert lands and a new arristi� trail wa.ti �c and appealing.
blazxd. These painters esecuted their ti�ork Thcy visited first b�- burro, donkey,
in thr tradition of the American West. horse-cart and foot. Later,when dirt roads
'Thesc pioneers with paintbrushes rr- gave way to paved roads they came by mn-
c<�unted onto their canvases what others te�rcar. They bivouacked, �amped, and
had soughr co eschew,thus opening eyes to a wild .�nd ti�rbi�ldin�; place c�f unlxarabic mingled with the nati��c Indian popula-
the inherent brauty of an unspoiled terri�o- heat,fraught with treathery,marauding In- tions in the palm can��ons, Joshua crec and
r��. Recalling the wagon crains and inhos- dians,and predatory crearures.These tU�en- cotconwood forests and hidden rock-
pitabie journeys of the nineteenth century tieth-century artists were soon to realize srrewn valleys. Mam�came to seek the dry
settlen,Americans had viewed the desert as the mie narure and visual scope of this lit- air as a cure for tuherculosis, chen preva-
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American Art Review Vol.VX No.2 2007 152
� Early Desert Painters is on view through
iLlarch 30, 2007, at The Walter N. Marks
C;enter tbr thc Arts, College of che Desert, ' . , , , - , _ • _, ._ _
43-50U Monterey Avenue, Palm Desert,
California, 92260, 760-776-7378, www. '
callegeofthedesert.edu.
All illustrations are courtesv Edenhurst
GalleR'. .
� wcrn': John(Gamble,Spring Flowerr,Ante-
lope I�a!ley, 1923,o/panel, 18 x 24.
C�NTF.R RICGH'r: CioCdotl C.oUtS, Whitewater,
C. Iy1S,O�C,22 X 28.
CF.NTER FAR RIGHT: t��sotl Clark, San
Gabriel Fnothillr, 1925,o/c,26 x 32. ,,
s��ow R�c:t-rr: James Swinnerton,Blooming u.� " „
Palo Yerde,c. 1925,cr/panel, 12 x 16. " s,. +� `a. +
.���,� �
t_�1���: Gunnar Widt��rss,Rim of the Grand , �'
Canyon,c. 1925,o/c,30 x 24. _ ". �� ' , -
• --� -- . , • -
RF.I.Ow LHrT: Paul Grimm, Neatl�Miqhtro
San Jncinto, 1945,o/c,42 x 72.
lent and unchecked. Some, like Gu�- Rose,
Maynard Dixon, John Frost, Jean Mann-
heim and Also Clark stayed for prolongcd ,. ,
periods, while others likc Paul Grimm, �'�„ � `,r''
John Hilton, Gordon Coutts and Agnes * `''�'"
��r
Pelton settled permanenclt�. Though Hil-
ton's tuberculosis was cured, Frost unt��r- � �'r
, �
� '' �`�' � ti : , - �.:,
tunatel�• succumbed. Caliti>rnia had Ieist x .� ; �;� :
� , �f ��. �;�•.
onc its dosest ti�llowers of Claude M��nec ,�� , +��" aa
and the French Impressionists. � _'`7�'•'"�t'� , ,.�;�.r'`
Tlieir he}�-day was in the 1920s,though � �'' � �.
artis�s Jike Fernand Lungren,Marion Wach- �
tel and Joseph Greenbaum came as early-as
1905. Thr��came from the art colonies in
' Laguna Beach, Carmel, Monteret�, Pasade-
na, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Their � _
� �' �
destinations were Desert Hot 5prings, Mo- � ,.�, F
a r
rongo, Yucca Vallev, Joshua Trce, Palm �
Springs, Cathedral Cit��, Rancho Mirage, � ` t" " ,+ '.
� � ;.
� I'alm ll�sert, Indian Wells, Indio,Mecca, e _, ;
u
Ludlow and on down the line to Barstow � �_
and the Nevada border, ��encuring north- _' - ,;' . - „ ,' 'i .
ward to the Antelope Vallev and beyond, j n>� ,� ' ;.�
and southward to the Mexican bc�rder. f -�
Rv the 1950s the tradition had all but -' ' � ;.
vanished into the shifring sandt and purpte � F',. '�'�
shadoas. Th� artistic legacy left by these � �
painters is a milesrone in the histor�� of ;;',�;`�;,; , l
American art,a specific rime and place that
has been largeh� under-recognized in the .,r'�. _
mainstream of landscape painnng until re- "" "� � ,�,:
centl��. �'isitors that comr to the California - ' ' '�����
, .^�•+,�I� ''��, �
desert toda��from all parts of the world to � o � �� ��„��
��,
enjov the oasis culture realiu die rich ams- _,,,.„� `
. �_�� , �
tic heritage that was vielded in this remark- „ " ,,,,�„_,,.,,,,,,, � ,..,,,, ,. -,� -.,�
able moment in time. r (
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