Agnes Martin

(American/Canadian, 1912–2004)

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Untitled II, 1991

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Untitled VIII, 1991

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Untitled X, 1991

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Untitled IV , 1991

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Untitled III, 1991

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Untitled VII , 1991

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Untitled V, 1991

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Untitled I, 1991

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Biography

Timeline

1912
Born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada
1932
Moved to Bellingham, WA
1942
B.S. Columbia University, New York, NY
1952
M.A. Columbia University, New York, NY
1989
Elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1997
Recipient, Golden Lion for Contribution to Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1998
Recipient, National Medal of Arts awarded by President Bill Clinton and the National Endowment for the Arts
Recipient, Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement by the College Art Association
2004
Died in Taos, NM

Exhibitions

2010
Agnes Martin, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England (solo)
Agnes Martin: Works on Paper, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2009
Artist Rooms: Agnes Martin, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
2008
Agnes Martin: Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2007
Agnes Martin: Homage to [a] Life, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY (solo)
2006
A Field of Vision: Paintings from the 1980s, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY (solo)
2005
To the Islands: Agnes Martin's Paintings 1974-79, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY (solo)
2004
Agnes Martin: The Islands, University of Michigran Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (solo)
2003
Agnes Martin: Five Decades, Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (solo)
2002
Agnes Martin: The Nineties and Beyond, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (solo)
2000
Lovely Life: The Recent Work of Agnes Martin, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY (solo)

Public Collections

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Literature

2000
Glimcher, Arne. Agnes Martin: Paintings and Writings. New York: Pace Wildenstein, 2000
1992
Chave, Anna, Barbara Haskell, and Rosalind Krauss. Agnes Martin. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1992
1991
Schwarz, Dieter. Agnes Martin: Writings–Schriften. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 1991
1977
Ashton, Dore. Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings, 1957–1975. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977
1973
Alloway, Lawrence. Agnes Martin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1973