A New Book Tells the History of Artist Colony Rancho Linda Vista
Below the slopes of the Catalinas' north face, the Bachman Wash twists its way through thickets of mesquite and creosote. Given a German name loosely translated as "man by the brook," the beloved wash snakes through the Rancho Linda Vista artist colony in Oracle. It's an arroyo both sandy and rocky, and it changes with the seasons. Sometimes it's a raging creek, sometimes a bed of wildflowers, sometimes a parched and desperate gulch. For 38 years, from 1968, when the ranch got started, to 1999 when he died, painter Bruce McGrew lived just a few steps away. He was deeply attac...
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