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Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Gift The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. She performed there regularly through early 2012 after painstakingly painting images of an entire audience on the walls, including characters who might have attended an opera the 16th century, from royalty to bullfighters, monks and nuns, and ordinary observers.Ĭredit line: The Jon B. In July of 1968, Marta Becket, an acclaimed New York dancer, mime, actress, and an accomplished painter took charge of what she called the Opera House. A recreation hall at the northeast end of the complex eventually become the 'Amargosa Opera House,' decorated with elaborate wall illustrations such as this one. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. United States-California-Death Valley Junction The entrance to the 'Amargosa Opera House,' adjacent to the Amagosa Hotel in Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California.

Amargosa opera house and hotel