The Blest, 1941

Carrie Moyer: One of the hardest things to do as a painter is to make something look like it's glowing.

Narrator: Carrie Moyer describes Pelton’s painting, The Blest. 

Carrie Moyer: There's something so seductive about how this is done, despite its seeming gentleness. There's this whole dark foreground that suggests a kind of awakening or something that one might—it's almost like seeing a UFO in the desert or something. It's this incident that happens that then disappears. And she's captured that moment.