Agnes pelton

Agnes Lawrence Pelton (22 August 1881–13 March 1961) was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She was a visionary symbolist who depicted the spiritual reality she experienced in moments of meditative stillness. For most of her career, Pelton chose to live away from the distractions of a major art center.

Agnes Pelton (1881-1961), was an American painter who transformed landscapes and pictures of nature into beautiful, glowing dreams. Although she was not famous during her life-time, Agnes Pelton…

Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) paintings

Agnes Lawrence Pelton is one of the finest American painters you’ve probably never heard of – and one of her most idiosyncratic paintings has been installed at the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman

The Curve in the Line — Agnes Pelton (American, 1881–1961) Winter, 1933 ...

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Detail of abstracted emanation in center of 1926 oil, “First Spring Garland.” Private collection. Installation view “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist” The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, New York March 13 – November 1, 2020

Agnes Pelton, Ahmi in Egypt, 1931. Oil on canvas, overall: 36 3/16 × 24 3/16 in. (91.9 × 61.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Modern Painting and Sculpture Committee 96.175