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Title (Dublin Core): Untitled
Description (Dublin Core): 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 (Dublin Core): 78.2416
Creator (Dublin Core): Martin, Agnes
Date (Dublin Core): 1977
Medium (Dublin Core): Watercolor and graphite on paper
Type (Dublin Core): watercolor painting (technique)
Format (Dublin Core): 9 x 9 inches (22.9 x 22.9 cm)
Subject (Dublin Core): Postminimal
Rights (Dublin Core): © 2018 Agnes Martin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Rights Holder (Dublin Core): Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Source (Dublin Core): Agnes Martin

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