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Marcia Pagels: Art Gallery
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Trees fascinated Marcia, particularly the intricate fractal shapes of oaks and similar trees enduring California's summer drought. She preferred borderlands, groves and tree-dotted hills to deep forests, though you'll find some of those here too.

She spent much time in Yosemite Valley, but never painted its cliffs, falls, meadows or woods. She told her daughter Erica "They're too well-known, too iconic. People just see the names--El Capitan, Vernal Fall, Half Dome--and don't see the colors or shapes any more."

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


Pink Orchard
1950s #101

Forest
1960s #167

January Tree Patterns
by 1965 #106

View in February Sunshine
1965 #107

View in February Sunshine
1965 #107 (2nd shot)


Starry Night
1965 #109

Wood Violets
1965 #110

Oaks on Pink
1965 #125


Persian Tree
by 1966 #103

Blue Glen
by 1965 #104

Orchard in Mustard
by 1966 #105


Old Oak
by 1966 #112

Oak on Canada Road
1966 #117

Orchard in Lavender and Gold
1966 #131


Eucalyptus
1966 #162

Summer Path
1967 #122

Oak in Blue & Gold
1967 #130

Oaks and Mustard Hill
1967 #139


Eucalyptus
1968 #119

Pastel Path
1968 #142

Pine Branch
c. 1968 #201


Winter Willow 1969 #146

Oak in Sienna and Blue
1969 #160


Roots of Tuolumne
1969 #161

Circle of Daffodils
c. 1970 #147

Acacia Tree
1973 #178

Roots (acrylic and paperscraps)
1973 #181

Path To the Lake
1973 #182

Eucalyptus (Fire Road)
c. 1973 #196

River in Utah
1974 #189


Dwarf Pine in Tuolumne -
Sierra Series
1974 #202

White Orchard
1977 #213

Almond Trees:
View From the Gilmans'

1987 #217

Mustard and Oaks
1989 #228

Mustard and Oaks
1989b #228

Hillside Grove
1989 #229 (early)

Hillside Grove
1989 #229a (reworked)


Morning Mist
1989 #232

Glade of Iris
1989 #233


Willow and Water
1989 #235
see also Giverny and Pond

Coastal Valley
1990 #238

Wood and Sea
1990 #241


Coastal Cove -
Point Lobos Trail

1990 #242

Acacia and Mustard
1991 #244

Merced River
1999 #263

Oak Tree
2000 #268b

Peaks Trees and Meadows - Sierra Series
2002 #274

Mustard and
Blossoming Trees

2002 #275


After Renoir
2002 #276

Edgewood Trail
2002 #278b

Woods
2002 #279


Remembering Fall
2003 #284

Filoli Estate
2003 #282

Filoli Estate II
2008 #306


Tahoe Pines 2008 #307

Forest Floor of Greens
2008 #308

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