Born 6 years before Georgia O'Keeffe, Pelton studied with Arthur Wesley Dow, whose teachings strongly influenced both artists. Pelton's work appeared in New York's famous 1913 Armory Show, and she was an important member of the Transcendental Painting Group in southern California. (https://storify.com/annakoster/agnes-pelton) Agnes Pelton painted the sounds of fire. (https://lookseedodotorg.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/glowing-flowers-inner-stars-desert-visions-meet-agnes-pelton-1881-1961/) Agnes Lawrence Pelton; modernist painter who was born in Germany and moved to the US as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Indians, desert landscapes and still lifes. Pelton's work evolved through at least 3 distinct themes: her early "Imaginative Paintings", art of the American Southwest people and landscape, and abstract art that reflected her spiritual beliefs..... Pelton's work changed significantly following a visit to Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos, New Mexico in 1919. She painted in oil and used pastels to create realistic portraits and desert landscapes and her works were exhibited in Santa Fe at the School of American Research.... "Agnes Pelton, Poet of Nature", a 1995-1996 retrospective exhibition of her work, brought national attention to her work. Curator Michael Zakian wrote: Pelton's works were poetic celebrations of nature that explored the vital forces animating the physical world. Interested in themes of creation, growth, and radiance, Pelton translated favorite subjects—a glowing star, an opening flower—into life-affirming images of rare beauty and resonance. In many ways, her paintings resemble the art of her contemporary Georgia O'Keeffe, only more colorful, more spiritual, and more imaginative. In 2009, her work was exhibited with 3 other Modernist artists: Georgia O'Keeffe, Florence Miller Pierce, and Agnes Martin. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Lawrence_Pelton) undefined

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