La Quinta Desert Scapes

#19 La Quinta – 12x20, signed, oil on Masonite board

#98 Early Spring La Quinta –18x24, signed, oil on Masonite board

In the late sixties La Quinta was a spacious rugged dessert 25 miles south of Palm Springs. To the west the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains and the east were some grapefruit groves and more dessert. La Quinta was undeveloped, full of sandy roads, arroyos, iguanas and plenty of rocks. Dick and friend Karl Albert enjoyed capturing scenes in the Coachella valley.

These compact dessert scapes shows a cornucopia of colors in a springtime explosion of fauna below distant hills.