Agnes Pelton

Agnes Pelton’s images are not pictorial records of nature, but rather equivalents for her emotional experiences of it. Born to American parents in Germany and raised in New York, Pelton studied with Arthur Wesley Dow at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute. In 1921 she left New York for Long Island. There, she painted the first of her Symbolic Abstractions. She later settled in Cathedral City, California, where she was inspired in part by the spectacular natural environment around her studio.