Abstract
ABSTRACT This review is of two art exhibitions: Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist, organized and circulated by the Phoenix Art Museum with additional exhibition sites at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Palm Springs Art Museum; and Agnes Pelton Landscapes exhibited at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Pelton, a contemporary of Georgia O’Keefe, C. G. Jung, and Hilma af Klint, gained recognition as an essential contributor to American modernism based on her transcendental-inspired abstract paintings. She was an avid student of Theosophy, astrology, alchemy, and Agni Yoga. Pelton traveled the world exhibiting her abstracts and landscapes, after which she decided to live the remainder of her adult life in solitude in a small cottage in the Colorado Desert located in the Coachella Valley, California. Over time, her work fell into obscurity. Now, interest in her abstract spiritual art has grown and again become available to the public through this four-museum exhibit. Nonrepresentational, biomorphic, and geometric forms are the centerpieces of her paintings. By employing symbolism using color, she captured a unique quality of light on the canvas to evoke an experience of transcendence.
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