Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist Puzzles But when the Marines turned

But when the Marines turned to its Navajo recruits to develop and implement a secret military language

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Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist Puzzles But when the Marines turnedThe first complete survey of an underrecognized American modernist in more than two decades. Agnes Pelton became famous for her distinctive metaphysical landscape paintings rooted in the imagery of the American Southwest and California. Drawing chiefly on her own inspirations, superstitions, and beliefs, Pelton manifested emotional states in the form of ethereal veils of light, jagged rock forms, shimmering stars, and exaggerated horizons. Through