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Agnes Martin Art

American, 1912-2004
Born on a farm in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, Agnes Martin immigrated to the United States in 1932 in the hopes of becoming a teacher. After earning a degree in art education, she moved to the desert plains of Taos, New Mexico, where she made abstract paintings with organic forms, which attracted the attention of renowned New York gallerist Betty Parsons, who convinced the artist to join her roster and move to New York in 1957. There, Martin lived and worked on Coenties Slip, a street in Lower Manhattan, alongside a community of artists—including Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, and Jack Youngerman—who were all drawn to the area’s cheap rents, expansive loft spaces and proximity to the East River. Harbor Number 1 (1957), one of Martin’s earliest New York paintings, combines the geometric abstraction of her earlier Taos work with the newfound inspiration of the harbor landscape, evident in her choice of blue-gray palette. Over the course of the next decade, Martin developed her signature format: six by six foot painted canvases, covered from edge to edge with meticulously penciled grids and finished with a thin layer of gesso. Though she often showed with other New York abstractionists, Martin’s focused pursuit charted new terrain that lay outside of both the broad gestural vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism and the systematic repetitions of Minimalism. Rather, her practice was tethered to spirituality and drew from a mix of Zen Buddhist and American Transcendentalist ideas. For Martin, painting was “a world without objects, without interruption… or obstacle. It is to accept the necessity of … going into a field of vision as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.”1 In 1967, at the height of her career, Martin faced the loss of her home to new development, the sudden death of her friend Ad Reinhardt, and the growing strain of mental illness; she left New York, and returned to Taos, where she abandoned painting, instead pursuing writing and meditation in isolation. Her return to painting in 1974 was marked by a subtle shift in style: no longer defined by the delicate graphite grid, compositions such as Untitled Number 5 (1975) display bolder geometric schemes—like distant relatives of her earliest works. In these late paintings, Martin evoked the warm palette of the arid desert landscape where she remained for the rest of her life.
(Biography provided by Sager Reeves Gallery)
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Lithograph on vellum, from Paintings and Drawings, Stedelijk Museum, Amst Framed
By Agnes Martin
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Untitled, from Paintings and Drawings, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1990 Lithograph on vellum transparency paper Limited Edition of 2500 (unsigned and unnumbered) Frame...
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1990s Minimalist Agnes Martin Art

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Vellum, Lithograph

Untitled, from Paintings and Drawings, Lt. Ed Print, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
By Agnes Martin
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Untitled, from Paintings and Drawings, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1990 Lithograph on vellum transparency paper Unsigned Edition of 2500 Publisher: Nemela & Lenzen GmbH...
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1990s Minimalist Agnes Martin Art

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Vellum, Lithograph

Untitled #5, Lt Ed Lithograph on vellum transparency paper for Stedelijk Museum
By Agnes Martin
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Untitled #5, 1990 Lithograph on vellum transparency paper Limited Edition of 2500 Publisher: Nemela & Lenzen GmbH, Monchengladback & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Printer...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Agnes Martin Art

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Vellum, Lithograph

Paintings and Drawings, by Agnes Martin 1974-1990 (Stedelijk), 1991
By Agnes Martin
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Paintings and Drawings, by Agnes Martin 1974-1990 (Stedelijk), 1991 Additional information: Medium: complete set of ten lithographs on transparent vellum paper each, 30 x 30 cm 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in Agnes Martin was an American painter who was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912, and became a US citizen in 1940. Martin is perhaps most recognised for her evocative paintings marked out in subtle pencil lines and pale colour washes. Although restrained, her style was underpinned by her deep conviction in the emotive and expressive power of art. Martin believed that spiritual inspiration and not intellect created great work. ‘Without awareness of beauty, innocence and happiness’ Martin wrote ‘one cannot make works of art’. In a career spanning five decades, Martin became known for her square canvasses, meticulously rendered grids and repeat stripes, though her lesser-known early works consist of experiments with mixed media and works on paper. Martin thought of her works as studies in the pursuit of perfection. Martin spent many years working in New York, where she was part of a contemporary of artists such as Sol LeWitt, Ann Truitt, Donald Judd and Ad Reinhardt – with whom she was close friends. In 1967, shortly after Reinhardt died and just as Martin’s art was gaining acclaim, she left the city and continued her investigations into Buddhism and meditation. She wished to experience true solitude and used this period of quiet reflection to produce some of her most significant writing, whilst situated in sparsely populated and remote areas of the United States and Canada. In 1968 Martin resettled in New Mexico and began building an adobe and log house in a remote mesa. She lived there alone and without modern conveniences for several years. In 1973 she began creating work again. Agnes Martin’s influence reaches globally and plays a hugely significant role in 20th Century art history. Whilst known as a pioneer of abstract painting, her work as well as her reclusive lifestyle have served as an inspiration to creative practitioners in diverse disciplines. Painters, photographers, writers – and many devotees from the words of fashion, architecture and graphic design revisit and rephrase her perspectival studies and fascination with geometry, the legacy of which can be seen in investigations into brevity of line and muted colour palettes. Artists such as Richard Tuttle, Ellen Gallagher...
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20th Century Agnes Martin Art

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Lithograph

Untitled #2, Limited Edition Lithograph on vellum from Stedelijk Museum, Framed
By Agnes Martin
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Untitled #2, 1990 Lithograph on vellum transparency paper Unsigned Limited Edition of 2500 Frame included: Elegantly framed in a hand made white wood frame under UV plex...
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1990s Minimalist Agnes Martin Art

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Vellum, Lithograph

Untitled #1, Limited Edition Lithograph on vellum from Stedelijk Museum, Framed
By Agnes Martin
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Untitled #1, 1990 Lithograph on vellum transparency paper Unsigned Limited Edition of 2500 Frame included Elegantly framed in a hand made white wood frame under UV plexi...
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1990s Minimalist Agnes Martin Art

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Vellum, Lithograph

Agnes Martin Recent Paintings Limited Edition 1977 PACE Gallery invite on vellum
By Agnes Martin
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Recent Paintings, 1977 Offset Lithograph invitation on Vellum 12 × 12 inches Edition of 2000 Unframed This early print is an exhibition invitation to the Pace Gallery's 1977 Agnes Martin show in New York. The image is a reproduction of a painting from the show, approved by Martin to be used on the invitation to the show. It is printed on a fragile, almost transparent vellum that captures the delicate power of the art. Less than 2000...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Agnes Martin Art

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Agnes Martin, Set of 3 Lithographs from Untitled (from Paintings and Drawings)
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Located in Bristol, GB
3 lithographs on vellum (from the portfolio of ten) Edition of 2500 (reported) Not signed or numbered Artwork in mint condition. Minor imperfections on original packaging. Sold in or...
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1990s Contemporary Agnes Martin Art

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