Summer 2022

My paintings are not at all simple from a technical perspective, but their essence and stark compositions are," painter Annie Hooker told Western Art Collector Magazine in 2020. "I feel that is still true for my work," she says now. "I tend to focus very intensely on one subject with a non-competitive background. That makes the subject stand out without a lot of noise." Indeed, … [Read more...] about Bold Expressions

Carmel Valley residents Paul and Marta Kephart, along with their three children, embody the ecologically based lifestyle of their business, Rana Creek Habitat Restoration. On any given weekend, you might find the Kepharts camping on the land of their Carmel Valley nursery, rising early to collect eggs from their chickens and to care for their horses and sheep, checking on their … [Read more...] about Design Rooted in Nature

She's the original live-action Disney princess. She never wore the ballgown or the tiara, but she's Hollywood royalty. Hayley Mills, at one time the biggest box office draw in the United States, is elegant and refined, but also as down to earth and charming as can be. On a recent visit to Carmel, Mills sat down to chat about her incredible professional journey in Hollwood and … [Read more...] about Reflections of a Disney Icon

The decades following the end of World War II were boom times for the Detroit auto industry, and its gargantuan factories were pumping out products at a prodigious speed. After the ra-tioning and belt-tightening brought on by the war years, American families were flush with disposable income and ready for adventure. The space age was in its infancy and car engineers were quick … [Read more...] about Mid-Century American Car Culture

In 1938, two years before winning a Pulitzer Prize for "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck typed a letter to Zena Holman. Zena and her husband, Wilford Rensselaer (W.R.) Holman, had transformed their family's Pacific Grove dry goods shop into a retail destination with 46 departments and some 200 employees. Steinbeck was recommending a friend for an advertising job at Holman's … [Read more...] about Paging Through History