Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Pause for a moment to pity the painter Agnes Pelton (1881-1961). While she was alive, she was mostly overlooked; after her death, she was still mostly overlooked. This spring was to have been Pelton�s big moment, for she was finally to move into the spotlight […]
Agnes Pelton,”Incarnation,” 1929 In the LA Times blog, Christopher Knight reports that “the kernel of a powerful idea resides within ‘Illumination,’ an exhibition of abstract paintings by four women who worked in the deserts of the American Southwest and whose careers pretty much spanned the 20th century. But the kernel […]
