Marcia Pagels: Art Gallery
Coast
These thumbnails are deceptive. Marcia painted more rocks and tidepools, especially in the sixties, but these passed for abstracts--very muscular and fascinating abstracts, in a period when few women did work like Sandstone Formations or Triptych of the Rocks. These were popular and often flew out the door before they got photographed; they're underrepresented here.
Encroaching Dunes looks like an error, but it belongs here: that's not a snowy, wooded ridge but the shady side of a white-sand dune forty meters high swallowing a living hill in Honeyman Dunes State Park, Oregon.
Butterflies belongs too: it's from the monarch butterfly refuge in Pacific Grove, 20 yards from the sea.
This is the memorial online gallery for Marcia Pagels, 1930-2010. 100+ works are still missing. If you know of one not shown, please email Chris Wayan, wdreamb@yahoo.com