This brilliant coral-colored silk features an elaborate brocaded pattern consisting of exuberant sprays of flowers in yellow, blue, white, and gold thread joined to bunches of fruit and other ornament woven with silver thread. The ground is enlivened by a damask pattern of more schematic vegetal and geometric ornament that echoes these dominant motifs.
This stereoscope viewer is made of light brown wood and brass. It has an oval shaped view finder with two glass squares for the viewing holes. There is a handle below and a sliding wood arm with brass brackets to hold the stereoscopic card.
Indio, California from the portfolio 'The Fault Zone'
Artist
Joe Deal
Physical Description
This is a black and white photograph depicting a rocky hillside in a barren landscape. There are craggy peaks in the background and some scrub type vegetation. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Hemet, California, from the portfolio 'The Fault Zone'
Artist
Joe Deal
Physical Description
This is a black and white photograph of an outdoor scene of a rocky hilltop. In the foreground are large boulders with vegetation growing among them. The hillside slopes down toward a distant valley iwith cultivated fields and straight roads. On the horizon is another set of rocky hillsides.
Palm Springs, California, from the portfolio 'The Fault Zone'
Artist
Joe Deal
Physical Description
This is a black and white photograph of a rocky hillside filled with boulders and brush vegetation. In the distance there is more rocky terrain. In the middle area there is paved terrace and to the right a section of the hill has been cut away.
San Bernardino, California (I), from the portfolio 'The Fault Zone'
Artist
Joe Deal
Physical Description
This is a black and white photograph depicting a rocky landscape scene. There are sharp cliff walls, striated with grooves, and two dirt roads with tire tracks. In the center portion, there is a grouping of seventeen piles of dirt, all of a similar size, and scrub like vegetation. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Fontana, California, from the portfolio 'The Fault Zone'
Artist
Joe Deal
Physical Description
This is a black and white photograph depicting two sides of a rural road running through the upper portion of the work. In the foreground, where the viewer stands, is a grassy hillside that slopes downward toward the road. There are some small skinny trees, large boulders and rocks. In the background there are low lying buildings, telephone poles and rows of cultivated trees.
Chatsworth, California, from the portfolio 'The Fault Zone'
Artist
Joe Deal
Physical Description
This is a black and white photograph of the side of a rocky cliff. There is some scrubby vegetation at the base of the boulders and graffitti on the rocks. This is a close-up and cropped view.
