New Mexico Museum of Art: Agnes Pelton, Desert Transcendentalist

The traveling exhibition, Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist, on view from October 5, 2019, to January 5, 2020 at the New Mexico Museum of Art, surveys the works of an artist who made significant contributions within twentieth-century abstraction. Pelton’s work has been associated with Georgia O’Keeffe and Marsden Hartley, and yet remained unrepresented in critical artistic spaces until recently. The exhibition contextualizes Pelton with her peers in the American modernist abstraction movement currently being studied as part of the canon of art history.

Agnes Lawerence Pelton, Awakening (Memory of Father), 1943,