Girl Aglow 

Tia Peltz created this painting, Girl Aglow, with an unknown medium, at an unknown date. Peltz, who was born in 1923, lived through the Great Depression and World War II. These global events helped shape her artistic perspective. In Girl Aglow, we see a profile of a person with a simple aesthetic. The palette glows with warm red and orange tones against starkly contrasting black hair and a cool, almost vacant, white background. This creates a strong emotional and visual tension. The face, reduced to essential forms, conveys a sense of universal identity that transcends specific gender or racial categorization. Peltz seems to have been interested in rendering a psychological landscape, rather than a physical likeness. Her interest in emotional and psychological tension may reflect Peltz's own experiences as a woman navigating a male-dominated art world.