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Death Valley Art Paintings by Janet Morgan & Gregory Frux Artists-in-residence in Death Valley National Park 2005, 2006 and 2008 "These are beautiful works evocative of the great beauty of our land." - Ken Burns, director of The National Parks, America's Best Idea |
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| Greg & Janet's Death Valley Art 2005 | Gregory Frux's Death Valley Art 2006 and 2008 | Greg Frux's Homepage | Greg's email |
| Janet Morgan's 2006 Death Valley Paintings |
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| DEATH VALLEY 2006 Artwork by Janet Morgan Janet Morgan and
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Artist's Drive
Slide
These hills are smooth like velvet
with
volcanic rubble flowing down their sides. watercolor 12 x 20" In geology, as in all things - "everything is in motion, some things just move faster than others". On Artist's Drive |
| The Artist's Palette watercolor 12 x 20" Last year we couldn't get to the
Artist's
Palette because the road was washed out. It is a crazy |
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Here are four views of
the
lowest place in the Western Hemisphere -Badwater- 282' below sea
level.
Last year it was a green
and turquoise lake (a very rare occurrence).
This year it was the usual
salt flat - white & glaring in the sun.
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One afternoon after a heavy rain
(sometimes
the rain actually makes it to the valley floor) I looked up and saw
these
wonderful waterlogged dark hills far off, under a grey cloud filled
sky. From Furnace Creek |
Desolation Canyon watercolor 12 x 9" Scenes from Star Wars were filmed in this canyon. The green is disintegrating mica, the reds are irons. |
Twenty
Mule Team Canyon
watercolor 9 x 12" where those stubborn slanted rocks just keep pointing to the sky
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Bridge Canyon Temple II
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![]() Up High in Bridge Canyon.. watercolor 12 x 9" lies this blue worn rock, 1.7 billion years old surrounded and covered by young crumbly red rock, ready to slide on down into the valley. |
![]() Bridge Canyon Temple I watercolor 20 x 12" |
The Saline Valley, a remote valley with marshlands, salt flats, hot springs, green canyons hidden deep between the 10,000 foot peaks of the Inyo Mountains.
Looking Out of Hunter Canyon In the remote Saline Valley watercolor 12 x 20" |
![]() Looking Out of McElvoy Canyon watercolor 12 x 9" |
Saline Valley From McElvoy Canyon watercolor 9 x 12" |
![]() Outside McElvoy Canyon watercolor 9 x 12" |
Inside the Oasis watercolor 20 x 12" |
![]() The Oasis (with Germans) watercolor 9 x 12" |
The Panamint Valley, just over
Emigrant
pass from Death Valley proper, is surrounded by the snow topped
Panamint
Mountains, the colorful Darwin Plateau, the Panamint Sand Dunes, salt
flats,
and it
is filled with miles of green creosote
bushes. And in the middle the wonderful Panamint Springs Resort, where
you can sit on the porch and drink a beer and watch the whole thing!
Panamint Springs Found Object Medicine Wheel watercolor 12 x 20" |
At Panamint Spring With Ravens watercolor 12 x 20" |
Panamint Sand Dunes watercolor 9 x 12" The only way to get to the dunes is to walk five miles in the hot sun, when you get there the dunes are even hotter. |
![]() Panamint Tree watercolor 20 x 12" |
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acrylic on muslin, 56 x 56" |
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and last but not least...

Ubehebe Crater
watercolor 12 x 20"
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Death Valley Art Paintings by Janet Morgan & Gregory Frux Artists-in-residence in Death Valley National Park 2005, 2006 and 2008 |
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Valley Art Cards
Sales of these cards benefit the program Death Valley Rocks which brings Los Angeles school children into the park. |
| Greg & Janet's Death Valley Art 2005 | Gregory Frux's Death Valley Art 2006 and 2008 | Greg Frux's Homepage | Greg's email |
| Janet Morgan's 2006 Death Valley Paintings |
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