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Agnes Martin Art

American, 1912-2004
Born on a farm in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, Agnes Martin immigrated to the United States in 1932 in the hopes of becoming a teacher. After earning a degree in art education, she moved to the desert plains of Taos, New Mexico, where she made abstract paintings with organic forms, which attracted the attention of renowned New York gallerist Betty Parsons, who convinced the artist to join her roster and move to New York in 1957. There, Martin lived and worked on Coenties Slip, a street in Lower Manhattan, alongside a community of artists—including Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, and Jack Youngerman—who were all drawn to the area’s cheap rents, expansive loft spaces and proximity to the East River. Harbor Number 1 (1957), one of Martin’s earliest New York paintings, combines the geometric abstraction of her earlier Taos work with the newfound inspiration of the harbor landscape, evident in her choice of blue-gray palette. Over the course of the next decade, Martin developed her signature format: six by six foot painted canvases, covered from edge to edge with meticulously penciled grids and finished with a thin layer of gesso. Though she often showed with other New York abstractionists, Martin’s focused pursuit charted new terrain that lay outside of both the broad gestural vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism and the systematic repetitions of Minimalism. Rather, her practice was tethered to spirituality and drew from a mix of Zen Buddhist and American Transcendentalist ideas. For Martin, painting was “a world without objects, without interruption… or obstacle. It is to accept the necessity of … going into a field of vision as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.”1 In 1967, at the height of her career, Martin faced the loss of her home to new development, the sudden death of her friend Ad Reinhardt, and the growing strain of mental illness; she left New York, and returned to Taos, where she abandoned painting, instead pursuing writing and meditation in isolation. Her return to painting in 1974 was marked by a subtle shift in style: no longer defined by the delicate graphite grid, compositions such as Untitled Number 5 (1975) display bolder geometric schemes—like distant relatives of her earliest works. In these late paintings, Martin evoked the warm palette of the arid desert landscape where she remained for the rest of her life.
(Biography provided by Sager Reeves Gallery)
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Artist: Agnes Martin
Praise (Framed)
By Agnes Martin
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Praise (Framed), 1976 Limited edition lithograph on Dalton Natural Bond paper with gold rubber stamp signature, accompanied by the original sleeve Agnes Martin's signatu...
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1970s Minimalist Agnes Martin Art

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Lithograph, Paper

Praise
By Agnes Martin
Located in Houston, TX
Agnes Martin "Praise" 1976 Offset lithograph on Dalton Natural Bond paper 11 x 11 inches ed. 1000 Framed
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20th Century Abstract Geometric Agnes Martin Art

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Offset

Praise
By Agnes Martin
Located in New York, NY
AGNES MARTIN Praise, 1976 Lithograph on Dalton Natural Bond paper. Gold stamped signature on the front Numbered 593 in pencil on the front, from the limited edition of 1000 Accompani...
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1970s Minimalist Agnes Martin Art

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Lithograph, Paper, Mixed Media

Untitled No. 8
By Agnes Martin
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled No. 9 1991 Lithographs on vellum parchment Ed. edition of 2500 11.75 x 11.75 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Agnes Martin Art

Materials

Lithograph

Agnes Martin, Set of 3 Lithographs from Untitled (from Paintings and Drawings)
By Agnes Martin
Located in Bristol, GB
3 lithographs on vellum (from the portfolio of ten) Edition of 2500 (reported) Not signed or numbered Artwork in mint condition. Minor imperfections on original packaging. Sold in or...
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1990s Contemporary Agnes Martin Art

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Vellum, Lithograph

On a Clear Day #15 1973
By Agnes Martin
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Agnes Martin On a Clear Day #15 1973 Screenprint Japanese Rag paper Image size: 6 7/8 x 8 inches (17.5 x 20.3 cm) Paper size: 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Matted size: 15 x 15 inc...
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1970s Minimalist Agnes Martin Art

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Screen

Agnes Martin Recent Paintings
By Agnes Martin
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Recent Paintings, 1977 Offset Lithograph invitation on Vellum 12 × 12 inches Edition of 2000 Unframed This early print is an exhibition invitation to the Pace Gallery's ...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Agnes Martin Art

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Offset

Untitled No. 3
By Agnes Martin
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled No. 3 1991 Lithographs on vellum parchment Ed. edition of 2500 11.75 x 11.75 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Agnes Martin Art

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Lithograph

Untitled No. 5
By Agnes Martin
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled No. 5 1991 Lithographs on vellum parchment Ed. edition of 2500 11.75 x 11.75 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Agnes Martin Art

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Lithograph

Untitled No. 1
By Agnes Martin
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled No. 1 1991 Lithographs on vellum parchment Ed. edition of 2500 11.75 x 11.75 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Agnes Martin Art

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Lithograph

Untitled No. 4
By Agnes Martin
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled No. 4 1991 Lithographs on vellum parchment Ed. edition of 2500 11.75 x 11.75 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Agnes Martin Art

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Lithograph

Untitled No. 10
By Agnes Martin
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled No. 10 1991 Lithographs on vellum parchment Ed. edition of 2500 11.75 x 11.75 inches Frame
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Agnes Martin Art

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Lithograph

Untitled No. 7
By Agnes Martin
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled No. 7 1991 Lithographs on vellum parchment Ed. edition of 2500 11.75 x 11.75 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Agnes Martin Art

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Lithograph

Untitled No. 9
By Agnes Martin
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled No. 9 1991 Lithographs on vellum parchment Ed. edition of 2500 11.75 x 11.75 inches
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Agnes Martin Art

Materials

Lithograph

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