Agnes Martin

American · 1912–2004 · Painter, Printmaker

Agnes Bernice Martin, was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Agnes Martin, Untitled #7, 1984, acrylic, graphite on canvasUntitled #7Phillips · $4,197,000≈ £2,657,675≈ €3,675,453Sign up to see
  2. Agnes Martin, Untitled #1, 1985, gesso, acrylic and graphite on canvasUntitled #1Phillips · $4,044,000≈ £3,016,335≈ €3,480,207Sign up to see
  3. Agnes Martin, Untitled #1, 1985, gesso, acrylic and graphite on canvasUntitled #1Phillips · $3,946,000≈ £3,026,770≈ €3,545,691Sign up to see

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Agnes Bernice Martin, was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist and was one of the leading practitioners of Abstract Expressionism in the 20th century. She was awarded a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2004.

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Born 1912, MacklinDied 2004, TaosOccupation Painter, Printmaker, DraughtsmanWikidata Q275610 ↗ULAN 500062429 ↗

abstract expressionismMinimalismHarlem Renaissance

Also known as Agnes Bernice Martin, Beauford de Laney, Beauford Delaney

Artist record compiled from: auction results, Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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