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Marcia Pagels
Artist at Work

Marcia's husband Gus was an avid photographer, but he mainly photographed scenery--for which he had a taste as strong as Marcia's--and the family's vacation trips. Of the 4000 slides and prints that survive, only a handful show Marcia painting. But she was still at work: on the road, on the beach, or on a mountain trail, she quietly collected ideas and images--a twisted root, a roadside weed, a scrap of bark.


Spring 1954:
Upper Yosemite Fall

1954: Marcia in
Napa orchard

1955: Big Sur coast
(one slide of hundreds)

1958: paints in back yard
after spring vineyard trip

1961: photographs orchard
in flower near Lake Berryessa

1961: paints Pebble Beach
while best friend Joan
distracts the kids

1961: paints on the rocks
at Pebble Beach

1963: paints Orchard
in Mustard
in garage

1963: on Pebble
Beach seacliffs

1963: drenched
at Pebble Beach

1964: rainbow over
Pescadero artichoke field

1965: on the rocks
at Pebble Beach

1967: studying madrone
bark on Whidbey Island

1967: painting
Summer Path

1971: under Ansel Adams's
Jeffrey pine atop
Sentinel Dome, Yosemite

1973: (left to right)
Richard Bowman,
Charles Paine
Peggy Bowman,
Marcia Pagels

1980?: atop cliffs between
Bean Hollow State Park
and Pebble Beach

1987: in Monet's
garden at Giverny

1995: portrait for
art resumé
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