Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist will be the first survey of
this under recognized American painter in over 22 years. Her
distinctive paintings could be described as metaphysical landscapes
rooted in the California desert near Cathedral City. Pelton chiefly
drew on her own inspirations, superstitions and beliefs to
exemplify emotional states. The publication seeks to clarify the
artist’s significance and role within the cannon of American
Modernism but also against the legacy of European abstraction. It
contextualizes her work against her contemporaries, Marsden Hartley
and Georgia O’Keeffe, and their distinct versions of American
spiritual modernism. Pelton’s highly symbolic paintings were
inspired by religious sources ranging from Theosophy and Agni Yoga
to the spiritual teachings of Dane Rudhyar and Will Levington
Comfort. Over three decades she devoted herself to painting
spiritual abstractions, which conveyed her “light message to the
world.” The exhibition Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist at
Palm Springs Art Museum opens on 6th September 2021:
www.psmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/agnes-pelton-desert
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