Agnes Pelton

The spiritually inspired paintings of Agnes Pelton (1881-1961) are rooted in the California desert, near Cathedral City, a place where the artist settled in 1932 and lived until her death. Her paintings are "like little windows" that open the view into the interior, the painter wrote about her highly symbolic paintings. In the 1920s, the Stuttgart-born American Agnes Pelton discovered abstract painting for herself, as it offered the opportunity to translate esoteric themes, including numerology and Agni