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1912 Maklin, Saskatchewan Canada - 2004 Taos, New Mexico. Known for: Biomorph to minimal-grid images.
One of the leading contemporary artists in 20th-century America, Agnes Martin was known for her monochromatic, geometric grid painting that combined paint and faintly wavering pencil lines. She is... Read full biography
One of the leading contemporary artists in 20th-century America, Agnes Martin was known for her monochromatic, geometric grid painting that combined paint and faintly wavering pencil lines. She is considered a forerunner of Minimalist art. She began her career in New York, and spent her later years... Read full biography
One of the leading contemporary artists in 20th-century America, Agnes Martin was known for her monochromatic, geometric grid painting that combined paint and faintly wavering pencil lines. She is considered a forerunner of Minimalist art. She began her career in New York, and spent her later years in New Mexico from where she managed to maintain a national reputation. She lived most of her life "fundamentally as a loner" (Cotter). In 1967 when her career was ascending in New York, she left the... Read full biography
One of the leading contemporary artists in 20th-century America, Agnes Martin was known for her monochromatic, geometric grid painting that combined paint and faintly wavering pencil lines. She is considered a forerunner of Minimalist art. She began her career in New York, and spent her later years in New Mexico from where she managed to maintain a national reputation. She lived most of her life "fundamentally as a loner" (Cotter). In 1967 when her career was ascending in New York, she left the city, traveled the country in a pick-up camper and quit painting for seven years. Likely her desire to be alone was related to her innate way of dealing with turmoil, which was to withdraw unto herself and go into a trance-like state, clinically... Read full biography
One of the leading contemporary artists in 20th-century America, Agnes Martin was known for her monochromatic, geometric grid painting that combined paint and faintly wavering pencil lines. She is considered a forerunner of Minimalist art. She began her career in New York, and spent her later years in New Mexico from where she managed to maintain a national reputation. She lived most of her life "fundamentally as a loner" (Cotter). In 1967 when her career was ascending in New York, she left the city, traveled the country in a pick-up camper and quit painting for seven years. Likely her desire to be alone was related to her innate way of dealing with turmoil, which was to withdraw unto herself and go into a trance-like state, clinically defined as catatonia. She later told stories of these reactions that began in her... Read full biography
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Keywords (39)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Geometric Abstraction, Linear, Grids, Hard Edge
- •Minimalism, Minimalist
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Taos, New Mexico After 1940
Art School
- •Columbia University Art Department, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Dia Art Foundation Support
- •National Medal of Arts
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Printmaking Specialty
Artist Colony
- •Coenties Slip Art Group
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City
Art Movement
- •Taos Moderms
Exhibition of Museum
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art