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| Checklist of Works |
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1. Wheat, 1957
Oil on canvas
49 x 49 inches (124.5 x 124.5 cm)
Private Collection, New York
2. Earth, 1959
Oil on canvas
493/4 x 493/4 inches (126.4 x 126.4 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift in
memory of Kirk Varnedoe
3. Untitled, n.d.
Oil on canvas
70 x 691/2 inches (177.8 x 176.5 cm)
Private Collection
4. Untitled, 1959
Oil on canvas
69 1/2 x 69 1/2 inches (176.5 x 176.5 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
5. Untitled, c. 1959
Oil on canvas
471/2 x 233/4 inches (120.7 x 60.3 cm)
Private Collection, New York
6. Untitled, c. 1959
Oil and graphite on canvas
471/2 x 233/4 inches (120.7 x 60.3 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
7. Grey Stone II, 1961
Oil, gold leaf, and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Collection Emily Fisher Landau, New York
8. The Islands, c. 1961
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Collection Milly and Arne Glimcher
9. Mountain 1, 1961
Synthetic polymer paint and pencil on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Laura-Lee and Robert Woods
10. The Peach, 1964
Oil and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Promised gift of Louise
and Leonard Riggio
11. The Beach, 1964
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
75 x 75 inches (190.5 x 190.5 cm)
Lannan Foundation; Long-term loan
12. The Rose, 1965
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Centennial gift of the Woodward Foundation
13. Garden, 1964
Synthetic polymer and colored pencil on linen
72 1/8 x 72 1/8 inches (183.3 x 183.3 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Holenia Purchase Fund and Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund
14. Play, 1966
Acrylic on canvas
72 1/8 x 72 inches (183.3 x 183 cm)
Daros Collection, Switzerland
15. Flower in the Wind, 1963
Oil and graphite on canvas
75 x 75 inches (190.5 x 190.5 cm)
Daros Collection, Switzerland
16. The Cliff, 1967
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Collection of Virginia Dwan
17. The Harvest, 1965
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Purchase, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
(Blanchette Hooker, class of 1931)
18. Night Sea, 1963
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Private Collection, San Francisco
19. Adventure, 1967
Gesso, acrylic, and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Collection of Constance R. Caplan, Baltimore
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Agnes Martin. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1973. Texts by Lawrence Alloway, Agnes Martin, and Ann Wilson.
Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings, 1957-1975. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977. Texts by Dore
Ashton and Agnes Martin.
Agnes Martin: Writings-Schriften. Ed. Dieter Schwarz. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, in association with Edition Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1991.
Agnes Martin. Ed. Barbara Haskell. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1992. Texts by Anna
C. Chave, Barbara Haskell, Rosalind Krauss, and Agnes Martin.
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| Biography |
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Agnes Martin was born in Macklin, in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912. She grew up in Vancouver, moving to Bellingham, Washington, in 1932. Martin gained a BS in 1942 and an MA in 1952 from the Teachers College at Columbia University, while living intermittently in New Mexico. In 1957 she relocated to Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan. Martin had her first one-person exhibition in 1958
at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. Surveys of her work have been presented at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1973), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1991), and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1992). Martin continues to live and work in Taos, New Mexico.
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