Agnes Martin
American, born Canada, 1912-2004
Untitled #12
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Agnes Martin
American, born Canada, 1912-20041977
Untitled #12
Agnes Martin American, born Canada, 1912-2004 →contemporarypaintingmodern and contemporary art
Date
1977
Medium
India ink, graphite, and gesso on canvas
Dimensions
182.9 × 182.9 cm (72 × 72 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund
Early in her career, Agnes Martin identified with her contemporaries Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt, sharing with them an interest in monochromatic color schemes, geometric forms, and spiritual or emotional content. In the 1960s Martin stopped making art and moved to rural New Mexico. When she resumed painting in 1974, her consistent vocabulary of grids and lines began to reflect her surround-ings. Untitled #12—part of a series of I5 square canvases painted in 1977—is a hand-drawn graphite grid on a muted gray ground that quietly invites a slow study of gradation and light.
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