AGNES PELTON

(American, 1881-1961)

CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE

Oil on Board

15 x 24 Inches

Signed Lower Right

This exceptional California artist graduated in 1900 from New York’s Pratt Institute where she studied with Arthur Dow. She lived and painted in Palm Springs for many years where, inspired by the serenity of the desert, she painted landscapes and became an early pioneer of abstraction. Agnes Pelton was a member of the National Academy of Woman Painters and Sculptors

and of The Transcendental Painting Group of Taos, NM. She exhibited widely and with success throughout the United States and her work may be found in the permanent collections of many prominent art museums, including Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Orange County and Oakland. We are pleased to offer this lyrical desert landscape that eloquently combines, in a single painting, the artist’s talents for both representation and abstraction.  

Reference:

Artists in California 1786-1940, Hughes, Vol. II, p. 865; Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Vol. 10, p. 710; Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2003/4 Edition, p. 1821; Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler, Vol. 25/26, p. 371; Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler, Vollmer Supplement, Vol. 3, p. 566; Who Was Who in American Art, Falk, Vol. III,

p. 2564; et al.