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Marcia Pagels: Art Gallery
Mountains

While many of these paintings are set in Yosemite National Park, you'd never guess it. Marcia spent much time in Yosemite Valley, but she didn't paint its cliffs or falls. 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." So she slipped away from popular sites and painted small scenes--a flower, a twisting root...

Wood Violets
1965 #110

Pine Branch
c. 1968 #201

Rocks and Water
c. 1969 #133


Roots of Tuolumne
1969 #161

Flower Fairyland
1972 #172
see also Bank of Coral & Gold
Roots (acrylic and paperscraps)
1973 #181

Rainier Lupin
c. 1974 #164

River in Utah
1974 #189


Dwarf Pine in Tuolumne -
Sierra Series 1974 #202

Rainier Etching
1975 #094

Blue Lupin - Sierra Series
1988 #220

Lupin & Indian Paintbrush
1988 #225


In Whose Hands
1992? #095
Mountain Lupin
1991 #243
Foothills of Gold
1992 #248 acrylic?
Foothills of Gold
1992 #248a print?

Mountain Meadow
1993 #257

Merced River
1999 #263

Peaks Trees and Meadows - Sierra Series
2002 #274


Slopes of San Bruno
Mountain 2004 #286

Mountain Meadow
2004 #312

Lake Tahoe Field
2005 #291


Mountain Meadow
2007 #305
Tahoe Pines 2008 #307
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