AGNES PELTON (1881-1961)

Лот 42
17.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1492582
Лот 42 | AGNES PELTON (1881-1961)
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$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
AGNES PELTON (1881-1961)
Incarnation
signed and dated 'Agnes Pelton 1929' (lower right)—signed again and inscribed with title (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
26 x 22 in. (66 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 1929.




Provenance

Jane Levington Comfort Annixter, Pasadena, California, gift from the artist, 1929.
Margaret Stainer, acquired from the above, circa early 1980s.
Leighanne Stainer-Bateman, Washington, by descent from the above.
Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, California.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

Agnes Pelton Papers, Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Notebook/Sketchbook IV, circa 1917-1929, frame 83, reel 2.
Agnes Pelton Papers, Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Letters to Jane Comfort, May 23, 1932, frame 50.
"An Exhibit of Paintings: Miss Pelton Making Display of Her Work in New York," Matawan Journal, November 15, 1929, p. 2.
R.C. Hay, "Dane Rudhyar and the Transcendental Painting Group of New Mexico, 1938-1941," M.A. thesis, Michigan State University, 1981, p. 160.
C. Knight, "Forget Georgia; Agnes Finally Gets Her Due: Thirty-four years after Agnes Pelton’s death, the painter’s first retrospective reveals her mystical nature," Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1995, p. 52.
M. Duncan, "Cosmic Ardor," Art in America, vol. LXXXIV, October 1996, p. 109.
S. Hochfield, "Agnes Pelton: Poet of Nature," ARTnews, vol. XCV, no. 11, December 1996, p. 125.
C. Knight, "Art review: 'Illumination' at the Orange County Museum of Art," Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2009, illustrated.
N. Tessler, Flowers and Towers: Politics of Identity in the Art of the American "New Woman," Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2015, pp. 106-08, pl. 7, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Montross Gallery, Abstractions by Agnes Pelton, November 11-23, 1929, n.p., no. 4.
New York, Argent Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Agnes Pelton, February 16-March 7, 1931.
Plainfield, New Jersey, Plainfield Public Library, Exhibition of Paintings by Agnes Pelton, March 16-30, 1931.
Fremont, California, Ohlone College Art Gallery, Agnes Pelton, 1881-1961, October 9-November 5, 1989, pp. 11, 29, 39.
Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Desert Museum; Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum; Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum; Logan, Utah, Utah State University, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art; Malibu, California, Pepperdine University, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art; Oakland, California, Oakland Museum, Agnes Pelton: Poet of Nature, February 28, 1995-October 6, 1996, pp. 52-53, 125, illustrated.
Costa Mesa, California, Orange County Museum of Art, Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin and Florence Miller Pierce, May 3-September 9, 2009, pp. 68-69, 70, 72, fig. 39, illustrated.
Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum; Santa Fe, New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Art Museum, Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist, March 9, 2019-November 29, 2020, pp. 82-83, 183-85, 201, 210, fig. 5, illustrated.



Further Details

We thank Mr. Michael Kelley for the information he has kindly provided on this work.
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