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Birth
1912 (Maklin, Saskatchewan Canada)
Death
2004 (Taos, New Mexico)
Lived/Active
New York/New Mexico
Photo submitted by Larry W Greenly
Often Known For
biomorph to minimal-grid images
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Modernism
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One of the leading contemporary artists in 20th-century America,
Agnes Martin was known for her monochromatic, geometric grid painting
that combined paint and faintly wavering pencil lines. She is
considered a forerunner of Minimalist art. She began her career
in New York, and spent her later years in New Mexico from where
she managed to maintain a
national reputation.
She lived most of her life "fundamentally as a loner" (Cotter). In
1967 when he (showing 500 of 6207 characters). |
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