Research Catalog

Title

Paulina Peavy Etherian Channeler / Laura Whitcomb ; edited and with a foreword by Ilene Susan Fort ; research by Narin Dickerson.

Author

Whitcomb, Laura

Publication

• New York : Andrew Edlin Gallery, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Peavy, Paulina, 1901-1999
• Lacamo (Spirit)
• Fort, Ilene Susan

Description

224 pages : color illustrations; 33 cm

Summary

This is the first monograph dedicated to American artist Paulina Peavy (1901?99), whose astonishing artworks were stashed away in the homes of her grandchildren for decades before being rediscovered only 10 years ago. Her paintings, drawings and masks evoke her fascination with spirituality and the occult, drawing from many of the same textual sources that inspired Hilma af Klint. Years of research by art historian and author Laura Whitcomb have revealed Peavy?s accomplished career: exhibiting at prestigious venues such as Stendahl Gallery in Los Angeles and New York's Delphic Studios, where Agnes Pelton was also represented. Since its rediscovery, her work has received critical acclaim and has been acquired by prominent collectors, artists and museums. This inaugural publication of Peavy?s work includes a definitive history of her artistic development as well as a catalog of her work, including her paintings shown at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.00Exhibition: Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, USA (14.09-28.10.2023).

Alternative Title

Etherian Channeler

Subject

• Peavy, Paulina, 1901-1999 > Exhibitions
• Lacamo (Spirit) > Exhibitions
• 1900-1999
• Spiritualism in art > Exhibitions
• Cosmology in art > Exhibitions
• Magic in art > Exhibitions
• Parabola > In art > Exhibitions
• Channeling (Spiritualism) > In art
• Women painters > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Women sculptors > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Women poets > 20th century
• Women independent filmmakers > United States > 20th century
• Spiritualism in art
• Cosmology in art
• Magic in art
• Parabola
• Channeling (Spiritualism)
• Women painters
• Women sculptors
• Women poets
• Women independent filmmakers
• Spirit
• United States

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• " ... published concurrently with an exhibition of the same title at Andrew Edlin Gallery from September 14 to October 28, 2023."--Colophon.
• " ... Peavy would become the first established fine artist to be publicly associated with the movement known as astroculture. Peavy was guided by a discarnate entity identified as Lacamo, which she purported to have first encountered as a séance in 1932--she espoused Lacamo's cosmology through her paintings, works on paper, costume designs, writings, and films."--Page 19.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218).

Contents

Acknowledgments / Laura Whitcomb -- From the artist's estate / Katharine Armstrong -- Note to readers -- Foreword / Ilene Susan Fort -- Paulina Peavy: Etherian Channeler / Laura Whitcomb -- Introduction -- Part I. Peavy's artistic development -- Part II. A cosmology made manifest -- Postscript -- Plates -- Selected bibliography / Narin Dickerson -- Curriculum vitae -- Selected reviews.

Call Number

JQG 24-285

ISBN

9798218215095

OCLC

1400971610

Author

Whitcomb, Laura, author.

Title

Paulina Peavy Etherian Channeler / Laura Whitcomb ; edited and with a foreword by Ilene Susan Fort ; research by Narin Dickerson.

Publisher

New York : Andrew Edlin Gallery, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218).

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Peavy, Paulina, 1901-1999, artist.

Lacamo (Spirit), artist.

Fort, Ilene Susan, editor, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JQG 24-285