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Agnes Martin, Trajectories is a presentation of works from Dia's collection and select loans that focuses on Martin's early and late years, their parallels and dialogues.
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| Checklist of Works |
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1. Untitled, c. 1959
Oil and graphite on canvas
47 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches (120.7 x 60.3 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
2. Untitled, c. 1959
Oil and graphite on canvas
47 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches (120.7 x 60.3 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
3. Window, 1957
Oil on canvas
38 x 38 inches (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
4. Untitled, 1959
Oil on canvas
69 1/2 x 69 1/2 (176.5 x 176.5 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
5. Untitled, c. 1959
Oil on canvas
25 x 25 inches (63.5 x 63.5 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
6. Untitled, c. 1957
Oil on canvas
34 x 34 inches (86.4 x 86.4 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
7. Untitled #17, 2002
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Gift of the artist
8. Earth, 1959
Oil on canvas
49 3/4 x 49 3/4 inches (126.4 x 126.4 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
in memory of Kirk Varnedoe
9. The Beach, 1964
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
75 x 75 inches (190.5 x 190.5 cm)
Lannan Foundation; Long-term loan
10. Untitled, 1960
Oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Museum of Art, Rhode Island
School of Design
Gift of the Bayard and Harriet K.
Ewing Collection
11. Untitled #12, 1984
Acrylic, gesso, and graphite
on canvas
72 x 72 inches (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
Courtesy Arne and Milly Glimcher
12. Untitled, c. 1959
Oil on canvas
47 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches (120.7 x 60.3 cm)
Courtesy Arne and Milly Glimcher
13. Untitled #20, 2002
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Gift of the artist
14. Untitled, 1959
Oil on canvas
70 x 69 1/2 inches (177.8 x 176.5 cm)
Courtesy Arne and Milly Glimcher
15. Untitled #16, 2002
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Gift of the artist
16. Benevolence, 2001
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Gift of the artist
17. Untitled #10, 1990
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)
Collection Melva Bucksbaum and
Raymond Learsy, Connecticut
18. The Spring, 1958
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 inches (127 x 127 cm)
Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous gift
19–26. Innocent Love series, 1999
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
each: 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x
152.4 cm)
Love
Contentment
Innocent Living
Happiness
Innocent Happiness
Perfect Happiness
Innocent Love
Where Babies Come From
Lannan Foundation; Long-term loan
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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 E. Krauss, and Agnes Martin. Fer, Briony.
The Infinite Line: Re-making Art After Modernism. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004.
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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 bachelor of science degree in 1942 and a master of arts degree in 1952 from Teachers College at Columbia University, while living intermittently in New Mexico. In 1957 she relocated to Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan. She 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), and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1992). She was awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennial in 1997 and a National Endowment for the Arts National Medal of Arts in 1998, among other honors. From the late sixties until her death on December 16, 2004, Martin lived and worked in rural New Mexico.
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| Funding |
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This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Dedalus Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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