LILY OF ANTELOPE VALLEY FLOWER PIONEER PINHEIRO'S ART TO BE DISPLAYED.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - Self-taught artist Jane Pinheiro spent nearly 35 years painting and drawing the desert wildflowers of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , where she came in 1941 with her dairyman dairyMAN a dairy computer program designed to aid dairy herd health and production management. Originates from Massey University, New Zealand. husband. Pinheiro's love for wildflowers came to fruition in 1976 with the dedication of the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve The Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve is a California wildlife reserve located in the rural westside of the Antelope Valley in northern Los Angeles County. Constitutionally, it is a state park. Its namesake is the state flower, the California Poppy. , whose visitors center is now named for her. Pinheiro died in 1978 but her wildflower wildflower Any flowering plant that grows without intentional human aid. Wildflowers are the source of all cultivated garden varieties of flowers. A wildflower growing where it is unwanted is considered a weed. paintings will nonetheless have a special showing this season. More than 100 watercolors will go on display Saturday at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, 44801 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . The show will open with a public reception from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. Milt Stark, president of the Poppy Reserve/Mojave Desert Interpretive Association, will speak at 2 p.m. Saturday on ``Who was Jane Pinheiro?'' Born in Denver in 1907, she earned her teaching credentials A United States teaching credential is a basic multiple or single subject credential obtained upon completion of a bachelor's degree and prescribed professional education requirements. at college in Utah and in the late 1920s moved to Pasadena. There she met Joe Pinheiro, whom she married in 1930. The Pinheiros came to the Antelope Valley when Joe Pinheiro got a job working for famous aviatrix a·vi·a·trix n. A woman who operates an aircraft; a woman pilot. Noun 1. aviatrix - a woman aviator airwoman, aviatress aeronaut, airman, aviator, flier, flyer - someone who operates an aircraft and dude ranch owner Florence ``Pancho'' Barnes, who sold milk to the men at what is now Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. . Jane Pinheiro began gathering wildflowers and painting botanically accurate depictions, compiling information about where the plants were found and their time of blooming. Described by a friend as ``a tall woman, large in structure, always commanding in appearance ... capable of a caustic, witty tongue,'' Pinheiro also became active in Antelope Valley civic organizations. She served as a member of both the Antelope Valley Fair board and of the first board of the Antelope Valley Hospital District. In the early 1960s, she began showing her paintings and providing information on where wildflowers were blooming each spring at a Lancaster storefront. She was joined by other members of the Lancaster Woman's Club, which led to the creation of a committee that raised money toward buying land for the poppy reserve. The west Lancaster land that the Wildflower Preservation Committee raised money to buy was added to and became the 1,745-acre state reserve, which state officials say is on the most consistent poppy-bearing land in California. Pinheiro was named to the state poppy reserve citizens advisory committee, and served as its chairwoman until her death. Four years after she died, the reserve's visitor center was named for her. She wrote of herself, ``Really, I've never considered myself very important. I seem to have an innate sense of service and just happen to have been around where and when things needed to be done. It just seems to me, the world should be a better place for each of us having been here.'' The Pinheiro display will run through April 30. Admission to the museum is free. The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- 4 -- color) The paintings of the late Jane Pinheiro, a major force in local wildflower reserves, will go on display Sunday at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, where, above, museum aide Jessica Meighbors straightens a piece. Featured works include, below from left to right, paintings of primroses, a Venus Mariposa lily mariposa lily: see lily. and Desert Candles Desert candle (Caulanthus inflatus), is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States, where it is found at elevations between 150 and 1,500 meters. (squaw cabbage.) Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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