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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Mari Coates, "The Pelton Papers" (She Writes Press, 2020)
Description: Like the better-known and perhaps luckier Georgia O’Keeffe, the American painter Agnes Pelton also found her unique vision in the western desert. As Mari Coates details in our conversation, Pelton and O’Keeffe took art classes from the same teacher and had parallel careers in several ways, yet Pelton is relatively unknown despite a number of major exhibitions during her lifetime and one traveling the United States even as this interview airs.But Pelton’s time in the California desert is only a small part of the captivating story traced in The Pelton Papers (She Writes Press...