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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


Encroaching Dunes
1955 #120
Sunlit Breakers
c. 1960 #097
Abstract in Black and Blue
1960s #000
Butterflies 1960s #114

Wood, Moss, Water
by 1966 #116


Coast Iris
1966 #118

Scriptures in Stone
1966 #121 (cool light)

Scriptures in Stone
1966 #121 (warm light)


Language of Life
1966 #132

Abstract in Black
c. 1967 #140

Sandstone Formations
1968 #124

Sandstone Formations
1968 #124 (different light)


Abstract in Lavender
1968 #127
Sun on Rocks
c. 1970 #142
Harbor Scene 1972? #152

Abstract Pink Rock Forms
1972 #174


Pebble Beach Detail
1972 #175
Abstract in Blue
c. 1973 #149

Dune Poppies
1973 #180 (shot 1)

Dune Poppies
1973 #180 (shot 2)

Triptych of the Rock
1973 #183

Wild Iris by the Sea
1973 #194


Dunes c. 1974 #165

Dune Grass -
Coastal Series
1974 #198

Wild Iris - Coast Series
1974 #199


Abstract Pink Forms
1975 #200
Yellow Lupin - Coast Series
1988 #218
Yellow Lupin (with sea)
Coast Series 1988 #218a

Wild Radish and Mustard - Coast Series 1988 #223

Iris by the Sea
1988 #226

Dune Poppies,
Turquoise Sea
1989 #231


Spring Sea
1990 #239

Wood and Sea
1990 #241


Coastal Cove -
Point Lobos Trail
1990 #242

Half Moon Bay
Flower Market
1991 #246

South Coast
1991 #247

Bean Hollow Headland
1992 #251


Low Tide - Fitzgerald Preserve
1992 #252

Boundary
1992 #254

Coastal Pasture
1993 #255

Shoreline Iris
1999 #264

Beach Walk
2000 #265

Bay Flowers
2000 #266

Surf near Pescadero
2000 #267

Blow Hole
2000 #268a

Pigeon Point Lighthouse
2001 #271

Artichoke Fields near
Año Nuevo Point
2001 #273

Field of Wild Radish
2004 #287

Point Lobos
2008 #309

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