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Untitled #12

Tan thin rectangles repeat across the whole canvas.
© 2018 Agnes Martin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Date:

1977

Artist:

Agnes Martin
American, born Canada, 1912-2004

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.

Status

On View, Gallery 297

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

Agnes Martin

Title

Untitled #12

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1977

Medium

India ink, graphite, and gesso on canvas

Dimensions

182.9 × 182.9 cm (72 × 72 in.)

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund

Reference Number

1979.356

Copyright

© 2018 Agnes Martin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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