Divinity Lotus

Artist Agnes Pelton (1881 - 1961)

Date1929

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions26 × 16 in. (66 × 40.6 cm)
Framed: 31 × 22 in.

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2007.188

Signedl.r.: Agnes Pelton 1929

Accession number 2007.188

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Provenanceto Emma (Hart) Newton Winchell, Los Angeles, CA; (Garage/ Estate Sale, FL); to (Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, IL); to (William A. Karges Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA), 2004; to Private Collection, Malibu, CA, 2005; to (William A. Karges Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA), 2007; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2007
Label TextAgnes Pelton imbued her paintings of nature and flowers with personal spiritual meaning, carrying ideas about spirituality in nature into the twentieth century. Divinity Lotus is an abstracted form of the lotus flower, which carries divine meaning in Hindu, Buddhist, and Egyptian traditions.

As a founding member of the Transcendental Painting Group, based in Taos, New Mexico, Pelton adhered to the principle, "to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world, through new concepts of space, color, light and design, to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual.

Inscribedverso, along top horizontal bar of stretcher: Emma H. Winchell
verso, etched along top horizontal bar of stretcher: W465080
Markingsverso, c., on backing board: [William A. Karges Fine Art label]
verso, c., on backing board: [Robert Henry Adams Fine Art label]