Agnes Pelton developed a luminous abstract painting language in the American Southwest, using floating forms, horizons, light and symbolic color to explore spiritual and metaphysical ideas. She became a founding member of the Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico in 1938.
Painting
Artist Films
Seeing Agnes Pelton
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Ask a Curator: Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
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Major Works
- 1929Star Gazer
- 1933Winter
- 1934Even Song
- 1934Orbits
- 1932Sand Storm
- 1952Departure
- 1947–48Light Center
- 1941Future
- 1930s–50sDesert Transcendentalist works
- 1932Messengers
Interviews & Writing
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