Palm Springs Art Museum: Agnes Pelton, Desert Transcendentalist

Pelton’s first encounter with the American Southwest came in 1919 when American arts patron Mabel Dodge Luhan invited her to her home in Taos that served as a retreat for artists, writers, and others involved in creative work. During the 1920s, Pelton matured into an artist whose interpretations of earth and light in biomorphic compositions of delicate veils, shimmering stars, and atmospheric horizon lines distinguished her abstract work and sparked her artistic passion. Read the full article →

Agnes Lawerence Pelton, The Fountains, 1926. Collection of Georgia and Michael de Havenon