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🧵 - A thread on 'Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group'

Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: a book on radical American modernism. 

Published in 2021 and covering all nine of the group's original members. Cover artwork by desert transcendentalist Agnes Pelton.

🧵 - TPG

Founded in Santa Fe + Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the TPG sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment + spiritual illumination.

'Blue Forms' (1942) by Florence Miller Pierce

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🧵 - TPG (3)

Despite the quality of their works, these Southwest artists have been neglected in most surveys of American art, and their paintings are rarely exhibited outside of New Mexico.

'Creative Forces' (1936) by Emil Bisttram

🧵 - TPG (4)

Faced with the double disadvantage of being an openly spiritual movement from the wrong side of the Mississippi, the TPG has remained a well hidden secret mostly known only to cognoscenti. 

'Beyond Civilization to Texas' (1950) by Robert Gribroek

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such that you explore further... 

'Messengers' (1932) by Agnes Pelton

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'Orbits' (1934) by Agnes Pelton

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Wow, thank you so much @aether for this in-depth introduction to the TPG 🙏 Really enjoyed reading it and will need to take a closer look.
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& 'The Voice' (1930) by Agnes Pelton

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thank you! really appreciate these works 🙏

thank you for sharing, really beautiful work ✨

This is an incredible part of art history 🙌