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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES desertsun.com CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY TRANSITIONAL TRADITIONAL CONTEMPORARY TRANSITIONAL TRADITIONAL CONTEMPORARY TRANSITIONAL TRADITIONAL ready for immediate pick up or delivery in-stock rugs hand made wool 6 x9 starting at $395 12 x15 starting at $1695 $395 12 TRADITIONAL LARGEST SELECTION OF HANDMADE WOOL SILK RUGS MATHIS BROTHERS 81410 US Highway 111 1-855-294-3434 MON FRI 10-8 SAT 10-7 SUN 10-6 DS-0000367673 A23 The Cathedral City Cove is ich in history, especially when i comes to the arts, where painters, photographers and writers have been setting up shop in the eclectic neighborhood since the 1930s. Those artists will be the focus of the fourth annual Tour of Artist and Historic Homes from 1 1a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday. Modernist painter Agnes Pelton whose wide-ranging works include desert landscapes as well as abstract art moved to Cathedral City in 1932, at a time when the town was just arustic desert outpost.

The home she built in 1939 still stands at 68680 St. (christened by the city as Agnes Pelton Way). The focal point the studio features diamond-scored concrete floors and the original fireplace; above the mantel hangs the bright orange and yellow work, cendental one of paintings. elton 1961), who lived in the home until six months be- ore her death, made frequent entries in her journal, which is eld in the Smithsonian Institution collection. On March 30, 1944, she wrote: and Sunday after- oons, there was quite an here in my studio.

For hree days previously, two young men, artists, worked on changing my room into a gallery. White sheets covered the ide windows and door and randpa at the end and then the First Art Exhibit ever held in Cathedral took place. Works of Cathedral City artists only, oil, water color, black print, etc. we had tea, and a ostess to pour and during those wo afternoons at least 200 peo- le The Willard Price Hacienda Cottage, at Street and Cathe- dral Canyon, was home to the Canadian-born American trav- ler, journalist and author, hose works include the series, a collection of adventure novels that chronicle the exploits of budding teen zoologists Hall and Roger Hunt as they travel a round the world capturing ex- tic and dangerous animals for heir wildlife collection. Price (1887 1983), who spent ive years in the Far East in the 1930s before the outbreak of World War II, was a celebrated expert on Japanese culture and whose book, Islands of was used by the U.S.

Navy as a textbook of the Pacific Islands. In 1999, professor Laurie Barber of Waikato University in amilton, New ested Price might have spied or the U.S. something he admitted in one of the biographies he wrote in his later years. It remains unclear if he was providing information about Japanese activity on the Pacific Islands as or if he was on the military intelligence ayroll. He spent his later life as correspondent and roving on behalf of newspapers, magazines, museums and societies, including the National Geographic Society and the American Museum of Natural History.

He visited 148 countries and circled the globe three times. Numerous stories about desert-dweller Price appear in the pages of The Desert Sun from the 1940s until around 1973, when he and his wife moved to Leisure World, a retirement ommunity in Laguna Hills. Mixed-media artist Margie t. Anthony is the current owner of the home thought to be uilt around the 1930s. Val Samuelson, a noted Cat hedral City Cove mid-century illustrator and painter, was a staff artist in the early days of the Palm Springs Art Museum a nd art director of the Villager Magazine, a precursor to Palm prings Life.

As art director of the Villager Magazine, he worked for publisher and then-Palm Springs ayor Frank Bogert. any of photo- raphs appeared in the pages of Tour historic Cathedral City Cove homes Artists to open home studios for public visit By Denise Goolsby The Desert Sun PHOTO COURTESY OF PETER PALLADINO The Agnes Pelton house at 68680 Street in Cathedral City. Please.