White Stone

Title: White Stone
Description: For more than forty years, Agnes Martin (1912–2004) created serene paintings composed of grids and stripes. With an attention to the subtleties of line, surface, tone, and proportion, she varied these forms to generate a body of work impressive both in its intricacy and focus. Martin’s commitment to this spare style was informed by a belief in the transformative power of art, in its ability to conjure what she termed “abstract emotions”—happiness, love, and experiences of innocence, freedom, beauty, and perfection. This retrospective, her first comprehensive survey in over two decades, presents the scope of Martin’s output, including her biomorphic abstractions of the 1950s, signature grid and stripe compositions, and final paintings. Together these works trace Martin’s practice as she developed and refined a format to express her singular vision.
Identifier: 69.1911
Creator: Martin, Agnes
Date: 1964
Medium: Oil and graphite on linen
Type: oil painting (technique)
Subject: Postminimal
Rights: © 2018 Agnes Martin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Rights Holder: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Source: Agnes Martin

Item sets: Abstract and Minimal Vocabulary. A visual landscape in Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Martin, and Hilma af Klint’s paintings