About this artwork
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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Status
- On View, Gallery 297
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Agnes Martin
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Title
- Untitled #12
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1977
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Medium
- India ink, graphite, and gesso on canvas
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Dimensions
- 182.9 × 182.9 cm (72 × 72 in.)
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Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund
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Reference Number
- 1979.356
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Copyright
- © 2018 Agnes Martin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York