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In 1974, after a hiatus of some six years and a retrospective of her work covering the decade 1957–67, Agnes Martin resumed painting. The works of the later seventies explore unprecedented avenues within her abiding aesthetic, culminating in 1979 in a suite of twelve subtly interrelated paintings, The Islands. This is the latest phase in Dia’s multi-part retrospective of Martin’s work.
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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 E. Krauss, and Agnes Martin. Fer, Briony.
The Infinite Line: Re-making Art After Modernism. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004.
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| Biography |
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Agnes Martin was born in Macklin, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912. She grew up in Vancouver, then moved to Bellingham, Washington, in 1932. Martin gained a bachelor of science degree in 1942 and a master of arts degree in 1952 from Teachers College at Columbia University, while living intermittently in New Mexico. In 1957 she relocated to Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan. She 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). From the late sixties until her death on December 16, 2004, Martin lived and worked in rural New Mexico.
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This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Dedalus Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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