ARTFORUM: Divine Reality the art of Agnes Pelton

Agnes Pelton was fifty years old when she left New York for the village of Cathedral City, six miles southeast of Palm Springs in the California desert. By 1932, a conspiracy of sun, sand, and settler-colonial ideology had made the state a mecca for visionaries and seekers, attracted by landscapes seemingly unspoiled by human intervention, temporalities seemingly unburdened by the past. Read the full article →

Being by Agnes Pelton, 1926.