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1912 |
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Agnes Martin was born in Macklin, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada
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1932 |
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She grew up in Vancouver, then moved to Bellingham, Washington,
in 1932 |
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1942 - 1952 |
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Martin gained a BA in 1942 and an MA in 1952 from the Teachers
College at Columbia University, New York, while intermittently
living in New Mexico. |
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1957 |
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In 1957 she relocated to Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan, where
her neighbors included the artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth
Kelly, James Rosenquist, Leonore Tawney, and Ann Wilson.
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1958 - 2004 |
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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), the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York (1992), and the Menil Collection, Houston
(2002). Martin continued to live and work in Taos, New Mexico,
until her death on December 16, 2004. |
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Agnes Martin. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art,
University of Pennsylvania, 1973. Texts by Lawrence Alloway,
Agnes Martin, and Ann Wilson. |
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Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings, 1957–1975. London: Arts
Council of Great Britain, 1977. Texts by Dore Ashton and Agnes
Martin. |
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Agnes Martin: Writings–Schriften. Ed. Dieter Schwarz. Winterthur:
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, in association with Edition Cantz,
Ostfildern-Ruit, 1991. |
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Agnes Martin. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, 1992. Texts by Anna C. Chave, Barbara Haskell, Rosalind E.
Krauss, and Agnes Martin. |
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Simon, Joan. "Perfection Is in the Mind: An Interview with Agnes
Martin." Art in America 84, no. 5 (May 1996), pp. 82–89, 124.
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Agnes Martin: Paintings and Writings. New York: Pace Wildenstein,
2000. Texts by Arne Glimcher and Agnes Martin.
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