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Agnes Martin

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Fan account of Agnes Martin, a Canadian-born American abstract painter. 1912-2004 Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Desert Rain https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/desert-rain-1957

Desert Rain

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Wood I http://www.moma.org/collection/works/90709

Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky

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Happy Valley https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/happy-valley-1967

Happy Valley

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Untitled #6 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79540

Gift of the American Art Foundation

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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/untitled-1978-1

Untitled

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Red Bird http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79891

Gift of Philip Johnson

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Stars https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/stars-1963

Stars

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Untitled from On a Clear Day http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63695

Gift of the artist and the publisher, Parasol Press, Ltd.

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On a clear day, #2 https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/on-a-clear-day-2-1973

On a clear day, #2

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With My Back to the World http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79892

Fractional and promised gift of the Ovitz Family Collection

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Untitled #12 https://www.artic.edu/artworks/89403/

Agnes Martin mastered a rigorously pared-down idiom that combined painting and drawing. The artist aligned herself with Abstract Expressionists such as Mark Rothko, admiring their investigations of chromatic color schemes, allover compositions, and emotional content. In the 1960s, she developed a vocabulary of grids and graphs that prompted critics to compare her work to the radical simplicity and intellectualism of Minimal and Conceptual artists. Indeed, Untitled #12—a crisply stated graphite grid on a light-gray ground—seems at first to be an exemplar of Minimalism. But close observation reveals a flickering light and extremely refined touch that suggest a spiritual, rather than purely aesthetic, stance. Martin’s deeply solitary nature led her to achieve a quiet, tenuous balance between the material and the immaterial, the sensual and the austere.
The artist stopped painting in 1969; she moved from New York City to a remote, rural area of New Mexico. In 1975, she began to paint again. Although Martin maintained that her art was not abstracted from nature —“Work like mine,” she remarked, “describes the subtle emotions that are beyond words, like music”—the paintings she produced in the Southwest embody the quiet landscapes, even light, and desert tonalities of her surroundings.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund

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Petal https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/petal-1964

Petal

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Praise https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/praise-1976

Praise

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I Love Life https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/i-love-life

I Love Life

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Untitled from On a Clear Day http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63699

Gift of the artist and the publisher, Parasol Press, Ltd.

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Untitled from On a Clear Day http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63704

Gift of the artist and the publisher, Parasol Press, Ltd.

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Morning http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/martin-morning-t01866

Purchased 1974

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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/untitled-1977-3

Untitled

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Aspiration https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/aspiration-1960

Aspiration

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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/untitled-1980

Untitled

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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/untitled-1977

Untitled

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Untitled from On a Clear Day http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63692

Gift of the artist and the publisher, Parasol Press, Ltd.

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On a Clear Day http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63682

Gift of the artist and the publisher, Parasol Press, Ltd.

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Mountain I https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/mountain-i-1966

Mountain I

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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/untitled-1963

Untitled