<br />
LASTING IMPRESSION [ J. SMEATON CHASE<br />
<br />
PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM<br />
<br />
J. Smeaton Chase's photograph A Canyon Portal of Our Araby appears in<br />
Photographing the American West: Selections from the Permanent Collection<br />
at Palm Springs Art Museum through Feb. 27, 2011.<br />
<br />
<br />
THE LATE AMERICAN ESSAYIST Charles Dudley Warner applied to<br />
Southern California the term “Our Italy.” J. Smeaton Chase — in his 1920<br />
book Our Araby: Palm Springs and the Garden of the Sun — likened the Coachella<br />
Valley's appeal to that of Arabia in his day. Chase wrote the small volume to<br />
invite discerning travelers to the area.<br />
Chase, whose photographs illustrate the book, wrote, “Turning to the<br />
south the view takes in a sort of bay or backwater — barring the water<br />
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