Folk artist Leonard Knight, creator of Salvation Mountain, died on Monday afternoon in San Diego. He was 82. It took Knight about three decades to paint and personalize the famed art installation in ...

Leonard Knight was born in 1931 on a family farm near Burlington, Vermont, the fourth of six children. His daily chores—watering vegetables, cultivating the land, feeding the pigs—made for a childhood ...

The folk art monument in the desert near the Salton Sea grapples with extreme weather, social-media-fueled tourism and its own tattering beauty. By Emma Grillo Photographs by Kitra Cahana Reporting ...

On a recent Sunday, a small group gathered at the base of Salvation Mountain in the Imperial Valley desert, two hours east of San Diego. A shade cloth stretched between four poles provided some ...

Known as Salvation Mountain, its long-time creator, Leonard Knight, died Monday at the age of 82. We’re joined now by Zack Godshall, a filmaker who spent time with Knight for a 2009 documentary called ...

Leonard Knight, the creator of Salvation Mountain, a famous roadside attraction near the Salton Sea featured in the movie "Into the Wild," died in his sleep Monday afternoon. Knight, who also made a ...

Leonard Knight has been building Salvation Mountain out of adobe, straw, and paint for almost 30 years. The colorful, three-story mountain with the words "God Is Love" on its crest sits in the ...

Leonard Knight worked for more than 30 years to build Salvation Mountain, a 50×150-foot visionary art environment in the desert just east of the Salton Sea. Religious scholar Sara M. Patterson spent ...