Desert Art

Claudia Keller Untitled Landscape I Color Silkscreen Year: 1985 Signed, dated, numbered or inscribed Edition: 180 Size: 19.5 × 18.5 on 27.3 × 23.4 inc...

Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of Rolling Hills and Open Sky Landscape by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 11 x 1...

The first encounter I had with the abyss, was arriving to a place that does not exist, a point suspended in time where I am without being. An unreal world expands in front of me, eve...

Title: French Impressionist Watercolor of Coastal Landscape Scene By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021) Medium: Watercolor on paper, unframed Size: 5 x 6.25 inches (Height x Width) ...

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Gaia Barnatan explores surreal, dreamlike spaces through the medium of digital collage. Her work aims to create a sense of balance, playfulness and curiosity, and e...

This painting from the series “Autumn Talks/8” recreates the coziness of an autumn landscape through a rich spectrum of earthy hues and soft light breaking through the clouds. The la...

A Vision you can't Capture (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 20x24cm each, 20x80cm installed. 3 Archival C-Prints, based on the 3 original Polaroids. Signature label and certificate. Artist I...

Untitled (Oilfields), 2004 60x60cm, Proof b4 Printing, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid, signed in front. Artist Inventory No. 1202. Not...

Because I Am (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 196 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...

Trinity Site, 2019 by George McLeod Limited Edition, Framed Fine Art Print "The shifting gypsum sand dunes of White Sands National Park are simultaneously the most alien landscape I...

Title: Journey West to Tibet Series ▪ Hoh Xil Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 12 x 24 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent con...

Memory Gaps (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory #13359. Not mounted. Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence. Written and directed by Stefanie Schneider A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of a newly orphaned girl after losing her parents who lived in the Californian desert in an old travel trailer. -filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice-over monologue - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl's journal. (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder) Stefanie Schneider By Caroline Ryder Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat. Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies, and dusty gilt-framed photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home and serve as sets for her photoshoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.” Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and never in the history of movie-making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film. “There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes, and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal. The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004 when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film. Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley. Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love) and Larry Clark, who was a controversial fine art photographer before directing smash hit Kids—she does not see her future in Hollywood, directing blockbusters. Not necessarily. “I don’t think I want to make more films,” she says. “The actors were saying they would love to work with me again, and were asking if I would like to make other movies. But being on movie sets is far too stressful, and at least with this, I was in complete power of what was going on creatively. That said, if this gets a lot of acclaims…we can always think again. One should never say never.” Film features original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne Randall...

A sensuous curve of light dances across some of the largest sand dunes in the world Sand dunes in Sossusvlei, Namibia, with a delicate shadow resembling a woman's torso in the foreg...

The little Girl at the End of the Road (Musica Poetica) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 4/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate a...

SOC (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # 847...

Desert Foothills Under a Blue Sky - Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas Serene desert landscape by Eth Bunton (American, b. 1924). The viewer stands at the edge of the foothills in the d...

Vivid desert foothill landscape impasto painting by Michael Wright (American, 20th century). Inscribed "M. Wright" and dated "17" on the bottom center r...

Sand Dunes by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) signed oil painting on board, unframed dated 1978 unframed: 20 x 24 inches condition: very goo...

After coal is burned in a fossil fuel power plant, the remains are pumped through pipelines into huge ponds. The ponds are used as a landfill to prevent the release of ash into the a...

Lauded by critics and collectors alike, the art of Gary Ernest Smith resonates in the mind and memory of contemporary America. Over the past years the artist’s one-man shows have att...

Untitled (Olancha) - 2006 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 890. Not ...

Monument Valley #73, 2007 [From the series US Road Trip Diary] 25x25cm, edition of 7 Archival color print based on original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH 305gsm - 100...

Dreamscene on Salt Lake - 2007 from the 29 Palms, CA project 65x80cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on an original Polaroid. Artist Inventory #9682...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Karol Malecki is a fine art photographer living in Warsaw. He uses film and loves a cinematic feel paired with minimalism. The purpose...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Tom Fabia is a french artist living in the south of France. His parents are both artists and he chose to follow their lead. Tom's focus as a photographer is mainly...

Linda Plotkin, American (1938 - ) - Clouds II, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Lithograph, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 6/50, Image Size: 6.75 x 8.75 inches, Size: ...

Skylark open trunk (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 Edition of 10, 60x80cm, Analog C-Print, printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Not mount...

Monument Valley #73 - from the series US Road trip Diary - 2007, 20x20cm, Edition of 10. Archival pigment print, based on an original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SMOO...

Titled the 'Sundance Series', these artworks are a development of traditional landscape photographs and they have created a unique perspective as if captured through a telescope or a...

The present work is from the artist’s “Becoming” series, which consists of 147 photographs documenting the transformation of a green field into Beijing’s new national airport, the la...

The first encounter I had with the abyss, was arriving to a place that does not exist, a point suspended in time where I am without being. An unreal world expands in front of me, eve...

Mark Harrison's (UK based) "Keeler" is an oil painting that depicts an arid landscape with clouds and road leading to a small unassuming building. Sometimes they are silent epic lan...

Gorgeous, restful desert landscape of Panamint Valley by Santa Cruz, California artist Mike Wright (American, 20th Century). Presented in a black painted a...

A detailed realistic/surrealistic acrylic painting on canvas.

Claudia Keller Untitled Landscape II Color Silkscreen Year: 1985 Signed, dated, numbered or inscribed Edition: 180 Size: 19.5 × 18.5 on 27.3 × 23.4 in...

“The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, sch...

Clay Lipsky's Atomic Overlook re-contextualizes a legacy of atomic bomb tests. In an attempt to keep a nuclear threat feeling contemporary and omnipresent, Lipsky introduces archival...

Judd Mercer's (US based) "Sandstone Sunrise" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts red sandstone cliffs and rock formations jutting into a clear blue sky, caught in the ...

Seascape of France, Brittany. This seascape is painted “alla primaâ€

Martha Mans 7 x 7 image size and 16 x 16 matted and shrink-wrapped The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started paint...

Landscape photograph of Monument Valley by an unknown artist. Signed "CJB" in the lower right corner. Dated "April '84" in the lower left corner. Mounted on a heavy white mat. Tag on...

Dreamscene on Salt Lake (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024....

Trevor Waugh The Rhub Al Khali Original Unframed Oil Painting Oil Paint on Canvas Size: H 50.8cm (20 inches) x W 76.2 (30 inches) Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. The Rhub Al Khali is an original Trevor Waugh oil painting...

Golden Hour Joseph Grippi, American (1924–2001) Screenprint Monoprint, signed in pencil lower right Size: 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm)

Ghost Ranch Encantado 22 x 22" image size watercolor, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board. I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched...

Watercolor on cotton paper :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: S...

Wonder Valley (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 40x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Art...

Train Crosses Plain (Wastelands) - 2003 20x25cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 544. Signature labe...

J. Robert Miller (1928 -2005) Abilene Artist Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 21 x 25 Medium: Oil "Going Home" Biography J. ROBERT MILLER (1928-2005) J. Robert Miller was an ...

Man & Deer Digital C-Print / Archival Pigment Print Edition of 5 per size Available sizes: 24” x 36” Scenic Collection.

The Bird Cage (Heather's Dream) - 2013 part of "The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence" 38x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Cer...

The Doctor's Stage (Heather's Dream) - 2013 with Udo Kier and Heather Megan Christie part of "The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence" 38x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. ...

Desert landscape photograph of Monument Valley by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed "CJB" in the lower right corner. Dated "April '84" in the lower left corner. Moun...

Alternative sizes and media available: 16 x 16 16 x 20 16 x 24 20 x 20 20 x 30 28 x 28 28 x 35 30 x 45 40 x 40 40 x 50 40 x 60 Matte photo paper or canvas available on...

Signed lower left, 'Karl Yens' (American, 1868-1945) and painted circa 1920. A fine, early 20th century watercolor landscape showing the the luminous sunset serenely reflected in a still lake with elegant, calligraphic grasses. Painter, illustrator, etcher and muralist, Karl Yens was born in Germany and first studied with Max Koch in Berlin and, subsequently, with Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. He was a successful active muralist in both Germany and Scotland before immigrating to the United States in 1901. After arriving in America, Yens continued to paint murals in New York City and Washington, D.C. before settling in Southern California where he lived and painted until his death in 1945. Karl Yens exhibited widely and with success, including at the 1915 Panama-California International Exposition in San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, San Diego Museum, the Orange County, California Museum, Astor Theatre in NYC and the Society of California Pioneers. He was the recipient of numerous medals and prizes and juried awards, including at the 1919 California Art Club, Laguna Beach Art...

Study XVII is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Luca Marziale. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: *76.2 × 76.2 cm ...

Castaway (Last Picture Show) - 1999 40x40cm, Edition of 10, Lambda Print based on the Polaroid Certificate and signature label artist inventory number: 869. Not mounted. Instan...

Amboy Salt Flats (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10918. Not mou...