Idyll, 1950

Carrie Moyer: Idyll is a really fascinating work that does something that not very many of the paintings in the exhibition do, which is that it combines her very obvious, beautifully-rendered landscape painting with these kind of funny abstracted forms.

Narrator: Carrie Moyer.

Carrie Moyer: I believe those two forms represent or are meant to represent very dear friends and patrons of Pelton's. So they're actually a kind of radiant light form that represents a human being.

Idyll is a late painting, so it's from 1952. And her output decreased in the last decade of her life. There's something daring about being old and just being like, "Alright, I can do whatever I want now. What's this look like?"