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Marcia Pagels: Art Gallery
Desert

These desert pictures don't look as dry as they might. Marcia grew up in the southern San Joaquin Valley, a flat arid land considered (by cityfolk) good for nothing but oil, unless you irrigate. But:

"One of my earliest recollections is driving with my parents to the fields near Bakersfield to see the wildflowers in spring. As far as one could see, clear to the distant hazy blue mountains, there were miles and miles of bright orange poppies... Much of the area where the poppies grew is now planted with cotton and other crops. These crops can grow there only with imported, subsidized water, and the soils, they say, are deteriorating. What is the value of a field of wildflowers? What is the value of the joy one feels at being a part of nature?"

Oak in Sienna and Blue
1969 #160

Oryx
c. 1970 #154

Turtle
c. 1973 #155


Dunes c. 1974 #165

Poppies
1987 #234
Poppies and Indian Paintbrush
1988 #219

Lupin & Indian Paintbrush
1988 #225


Lupin & Indian Paintbrush
1988 #225B
duplicate cat #, different painting

Antelope Valley Poppies
1988 #230


Tehachapis and
Valley Lupin
1989 #227

California Poppies
1989 #236

Lupin & Indian Paintbrush II       1989 #237

Coastal Valley
1990 #238


Lupin & Indian Paintbrush
III       1990 #240

California Gold 1991 #245


Foothills of Gold
1992 #248 acrylic?

Foothills of Gold
1992 #248a print?

Field of Poppies
1992 #250

Dry River Lupin
1993 #256


Nature's Palette,
Carrizo Plain
1993 #259 see also Carrizo...

Carrizo Plain
2006 #295 see also Nature...

Poppy
2006 #296

Desert Verbena
2007 #297

Butterfly
2007 #299


Yellow-Edged Poppies
2007 #300
Farewell-To-Spring
2007 #301

Desert Wildflower
2007 #302

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