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Dia's retrospective of works by Agnes Martin enters its second phase with "…unknown territory…" While part one, "…going forward into unknown territory…," concentrated on Martin's formative years 1957 to 1960, within the decade that she spent in New York City (1957 to 1967), this new installation focuses on a selection of her signature works from the 1960s, bringing together rarely seen classic grid paintings from this key period in her oeuvre. "…unknown territory…" will be on view through November 7, 2005 and will be followed in December 2005 by an installation of paintings from the years 1974 to 1979. This retrospective of Martin's work will continue in installments over the next three years.
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| Checklist of Works |
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1. Wheat, 1957
Oil on canvas
49 x 49 inches (124.5 x 124.5 cm)
Private Collection, New York
2. Untitled, c. 1959
Oil on canvas
471/2 x 233/4 inches (120.7 x 60.3 cm)
Private Collection, New York
3. Untitled, c. 1959
Oil and graphite on canvas
471/2 x 233/4 inches (120.7 x 60.3 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
4. Untitled, n.d.
Oil on canvas
70 x 691/2 inches (177.8 x 176.5 cm)
Private Collection
5. The Islands, c. 1961
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Collection Milly and Arne Glimcher
6. Untitled, 1959
Oil on canvas
691/2 x 691/2 inches (176.5 x 176.5 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
7. Grey Stone II, 1961
Oil, gold leaf, and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Collection Emily Fisher Landau, New York
8. Garden, 1964
Synthetic polymer and colored pencil on linen
721/8 x 721/8 inches (183.3 x 183.3 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Holenia Purchase Fund and Jose H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2001
9. The Peach, 1964
Oil and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Promised gift of Louise and Leonard Riggio
10. Leaf, 1965
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches
Daniel W. Dietrich II
11. The Beach, 1964
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
75 x 75 inches (190.5 x 190.5 cm)
Lannan Foundation; Long-term loan
12. Field 2, 1963
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches
Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Modern Art Foundation, Inc.
13. The Rose, 1965
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Centennial
gift of the Woodward Foundation, 1975
14. Red Bird, 1964
Acrylic and colored pencil on canvas
711/4 x 711/4 inches (181 x 181 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Gift of Philip Johnson, 1970, 514.1970
15. Mountain 1, 1966
Synthetic polymer paint and pencil
on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Laura-Lee and Robert Woods, 1992
16. Adventure, 1967
Gesso, acrylic, and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Collection of Constance R. Caplan, Baltimore
17. Hill, 1967
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches
Daniel W. Dietrich II
18. Play, 1966
Acrylic on canvas
721/8 x 72 inches (183.3 x 183 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1974
19. Play II, 1966
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 72 inches
Daniel W. Dietrich II
20. The Harvest, 1965
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Purchase, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
(Blanchette Hooker, class of 1931)
21. The Cliff, 1967
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Collection of Virginia Dwan
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Agnes Martin. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1973. Texts by Lawrence Alloway, Agnes Martin, and Ann Wilson.
Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings, 1957-1975. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977. Texts by Dore
Ashton and Agnes Martin.
Agnes Martin: Writings-Schriften. Ed. Dieter Schwarz. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, in association with Edition Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1991.
Agnes Martin. Ed. Barbara Haskell. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1992. Texts by Anna
C. Chave, Barbara Haskell, Rosalind Krauss, and Agnes Martin.
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| Biography |
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Agnes Martin was born in Macklin, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912. She grew up in Vancouver, then moved to Bellingham, Washington, in 1932. 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. 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. 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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