Agnes Pelton by Gilbert Vicario For Cheap

The spiritually inspired pictures of Agnes Pelton (1881-1961) have their roots in the desert of California, a place where she settled in 1932 and lived until her death. Pelton wrote of her highly symbolic paintings that her pictures were like little windows, which opened up a view into the interior, her message of light to the world . In the 1920s Pelton started to explore abstract painting because this offered her the possibility of translating esoteric topics into pictures. Like her fellow artist Georgia O Keeffe, Pelton deliberately turned her back on the art scene of the East Coast. She was celebrated for her abstract compositions: It is simply an oasis of beauty for the eye , was how American Art News eulogized her work. After her death, Pelton s work disappeared from the public focus for a long time, but in recent years she s begun to be valued as a crucial American modernist.