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WESTERN ART "Winter Morning" Oil, 24" x 30" Artist, William Hoffman. Courtesy Dr. Leo Hartman Collection, of Bellflower, Calif. CAN A SMALL GROUP OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND COWBOY ARTISTS FIND HAPPINESS IN A LITTLE WESTERN TOWN SNUGGLED AT THE FOOTHILLS OF THE SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS? YOU BET THEY CAN! PIRST IT was the land of the Gabrielinos Indians; then a Mexican Land Grant to Don Ignacio Palomeres; an enormous cattle ranch; a prolific citrus grove, and now a mecca of great western art. To this add very alive townspeople and you have the history and future of San Dimas, California — population 19,500, 40 miles east of Los Angeles, a 24 friendly western town dedicated to the development of western art. These very alive townspeople have developed and incorporated a community-wide organization, "The San Dimas Festival of Western Arts." They like to bring attention to the "Arts," "plural" they say, visual, performing and literature. For the present, the "Arts" is their ftlCft JOFFKA^J annual sponsorship of the prestigious American Indian and Cowboy Artists (AICA) Western Art Exhibition. It is California's largest and most spectacular exhibition of western art. For the future, they plan western art galleries and the building of an academy devoted to western art and history. They have the dream, and they have a committed Desert/April 1979
western historical community to match the dream. The AICA will hold their Third Annual Western Art Exhibition and Sale on April 27, 28, 29, 1979. The Exhibition will bring to San Dimas artists and sculptures from Washington to Oklahoma to Texas. Mayor Marvin Ersher, M.D., sums up the townspeople's feel- Posert/April 1979 ings. "We look forward each year to the artists' return—we regard them as personal friends and respect and appreciate each for the magnificent art they bring to San Dimas." The AICA surely are not strangers to San Dimas. The community knows them on a first name basis and can identify their work. Charlie Krauskopf, resident and one of the organizers of the San Dimas Festival, observed, "We know and enjoy the artists and their work. The AICA brought to us and Southern California an appreciation, not only for the art, but for western history." From the AICA and their president, Theron Imlay, comes another observation. "One cannot say how much respect 25
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