As you walk into Agnes Martin at LACMA, you are immediately faced with a choice. Turn left and go east, into the history of her early years of living and painting in New York City. Turn right, or west ...

The question of how Agnes Martin arrived at the grid, and what she drew from those around her, seems easy to answer: several pioneers of pared down, rectilinear abstraction were near at hand, and ...

It’s a bit of a myth that when Agnes Martin left New York in 1967 and then settled in New Mexico, she did so as a means of retreating from the art world. She may have been disillusioned with New York, ...

In a moment of dramatic suspense, a slow but determined bidding war broke out over Agnes Martin’s Grey Stone II (1961) during the Emily Fisher Landau Collection sale at Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday ...

Agnes Martin, one of the world’s foremost abstract artists, whose spare paintings reflected the simple life she sought, died yesterday in Taos, N.M. She was 92. Martin had lived a simple life in the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Agnes Martin, one of the world's foremost abstract artists, whose spare paintings reflected the simple, died Thursday. She was 92. Martin died at the Plaza de Retiro, a retirement ...

AGNES MARTIN’S best-known paintings feature stripes or grids in muted colors stretched across 6-foot-square canvases. At a recent exhibit dedicated to the Canadian-born artist (1912-2004) at New ...

Martin’s abstracts have been included in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, all in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London.

In 1967, at the age of 55, painter Agnes Martin (1912-2004) left the New York art scene behind. She traveled the country, eventually settling near Cuba, New Mexico. The move marked the beginning of a ...

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