Gordon Coutts
Gordon Coutts
Palm Springs Desert - c.1920-30s
- Oil on canvas laid to panel
- Panel: 12 x 18 in.
- Frame: 18 h x 24 in.
- Signed lower right
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About the work
Coutts outside Dar Maroc during the approximate period when he painted Palm Springs Desert.
This work dates from the 1920s-30s when Coutts lived and painted in Palm Springs, California. The scene is typical of the area around Coutts’s French-Moroccan style castle before development of Palm Springs. His former residence stands today as the Korakia Pensione and is discussed in materials verso. The work is delicately painted in semi-transparent washes, with portions of the graphite underdrawing visible in places. Possibly a study for a larger work.
The painting was included in the exhibition “Desertscapes, Early California Desert Painters” at the Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts, College of the Desert, in April 2010.
About the artist…
Coutts’ passion for his artwork took him to the deserts of Morocco and Taos before he settled in Palm Springs in 1924 and built Dar Maroc. There he mingled with celebrities including Rudolf Valentino and Winston Churchill, the latter of whom was also a fan of desert art and said to have done some paintings in Coutts’s studio.
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