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Agnes Lawrence Pelton
German American painter
Agnes Lawrence Pelton (August 22, – March 13, ) was a modernist painter who was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child.
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She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Native Americans, desert landscapes and still lifes. Pelton's work evolved through at least three distinct themes: her early "Imaginative Paintings," art of the American Southwest people and landscape, and abstract art that reflected her spiritual beliefs.
She was a first cousin of American sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser.
Early life
Agnes Lawrence Pelton was born in Stuttgart, Germany to American parents, William and Florence Pelton.[1] She lived in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from to and in Basel, Switzerland from to [1] In , when Agnes was about 7 years old, she and her mother moved to Elizabeth Tilton's home in Brooklyn, New York, located at Pacific Street.
Agnes' father died of a morphine over