Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
(Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925)

Lydia's Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
(​Published by Palm Springs News Company in 1938)
- was the inspiration for her California Desert art -

particular inspiration came from this painting in the magazine by desert artist
​Harry B. Wagoner 

​Published by Palm Springs News Company in 1938

for this oil painting

particular inspiration came for this oil painting
from traveling photographer Burton Frasher's photograph
found on the last page of the magazine 

To see the entire magazine in order of pages start at 1, using the pause button and the ctrl + keys to make the print larger:

These post cards were also the inspiration for Lydia's California Desert art.

for this block print
of which she had hundreds which went out into the
Lindsborg and Bethany College community
especially after the sale of
Deere House
​c1981

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