Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist

Agnes Pelton became famous for her distinctive metaphysical landscape paintings rooted in the imagery of the American Southwest and California. Drawing chiefly on her own inspirations, superstitions, and beliefs, Pelton manifested emotional states in the form of ethereal veils of light, jagged rock forms, shimmering stars, and exaggerated horizons. Through these imaginary tableaus, she constructed a fantastic world that allowed her to make sense of that which is uncontrollable, establishing for herself a new universal order rooted in the natural world.
            Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is the first survey of this understudied painter in more than twenty-two years. Examining the artist’s work in relation to the movements of abstraction, surrealism, and art of the occult, this vibrant book sheds light on Pelton’s remarkable influence on American spiritual modernism.
 

• World Receivers: Georgiana Houghton - Hilma af Klint - Emma Kunz
• Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
• Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings
• Notes and Methods
• Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O'keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin and Florence Pierce
• Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West
• Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
• Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism
• Lee Krasner
• Dorothea Tanning