Agnes Peltonwas fifty years old when she left New York for the village of Cathedral City, six miles southeast of Palm Springs in the California desert. By 1932, a conspiracy of sun, sand, and settler-colonial ideology had made the state a mecca for visionaries and seekers, attracted by landscapes seemingly unspoiled by human intervention, temporalities seemingly unburdened by the past. Read the full article →
Agnes Pelton, Winter, 1933, oil on canvas, 30 × 28″. Crocker Art Museum.
