Editing Agnes Martin

{{Short description|American painter (1912–2004)}}
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| birth_name    = Agnes Bernice Martin
| birth_date    = {{Birth date |1912|03|22}}
| birth_place   = [[Macklin, Saskatchewan]], Canada
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|2004|12|16|1912|03|22}}
| death_place   = [[Taos, New Mexico]], United States
| nationality   = American
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| field         = Painter
| training      = [[Western Washington University]]<br />[[Teachers College, Columbia University]]<br />[[University of New Mexico]]
| movement      = [[Abstract expressionism]]
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'''Agnes Bernice Martin''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was an American abstract painter known for her [[minimalist]] style and [[abstract expressionism]].<ref name=Stockholm /><ref name=Smithsonian /> Born in Canada, she moved to the United States in 1931, where she pursued higher education and became a U.S. citizen in 1950. Martin's artistic journey began in [[New York City]], where she immersed herself in [[modern art]] and developed a deep interest in abstraction. Despite often being labeled a minimalist, she identified more with abstract expressionism. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion, inwardness and silence."<ref name=":1" />

Growing up in rural Canada and influenced by the [[New Mexico]] desert, where she lived for the last several decades of her life, Martin's art was characterized by serene compositions featuring grids and lines. Her works were predominantly monochromatic, employing colors like black, white, and brown with great subtlety. Martin's minimalist approach conveyed [[tranquility]] and [[spirituality]], and her paintings often carried positive names reflective of her philosophy.

Her career included numerous exhibitions, totaling over 85 solo shows, and participation in major events such as the [[Venice Biennale]] and [[Documenta]]. Martin's work earned recognition for its unique contribution to contemporary art, and she received awards like the [[National Medal of Arts]] from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] in 1998.<ref name=WPost>{{cite news |first=Matt |last=Schudel |title=Influential Abstract Painter Agnes Martin Dies at 92 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9391-2004Dec17 |date=December 18, 2004 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=November 25, 2011}}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> She was elected to the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]] in 2004.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982">{{Cite book|last=Régimbal, Christopher, 1982-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1121264114|title=Agnes Martin: life & work|others=Art Canada Institute|year=2019|isbn=978-1-4871-0212-8|location=Toronto, ON|oclc=1121264114}}</ref>

Despite personal struggles with [[schizophrenia]], Martin's dedication to her art persisted, and her legacy continues to inspire contemporary artists. Documentaries and films have explored her life and work, shedding light on her artistic process and impact. Beyond the art world, her influence extends to popular culture, as seen in a [[Google doodle]] and a song dedicated to her. Martin's artistic vision, blending minimalism and spirituality, remains an enduring and influential force in the realm of [[abstract art]].

==Early life==
Agnes Bernice Martin was born in 1912 to Scottish Presbyterian farmers in [[Macklin, Saskatchewan]], one of four children.<ref name=Smithsonian /><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |title=Agnes Martin: the quiet American |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/22341ab2-091f-11e5-b643-00144feabdc0.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/22341ab2-091f-11e5-b643-00144feabdc0.html |archive-date=2022-12-10 |newspaper=Financial Times |date=June 5, 2015 |access-date=October 5, 2015 |issn=0307-1766 |first=Rachel |last=Spence |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=":2">[http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A3787 MoMA | The Collection | Agnes Martin. (American, born Canada. 1912–2004)], ''Moma.org''. Accessed March 28, 2011.</ref> From 1919, she grew up in [[Vancouver]].<ref name=MorrisBell>{{cite book|title = Agnes Martin|last1=Morris |first1=Frances |last2=Bell |first2=Tiffany |publisher=Tate Publishing |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-84976-268-7 |location=London}}</ref>{{rp|237}} She moved to the [[United States]] in 1931 to help her pregnant sister, Maribel, in Bellingham, Washington.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Princenthal |first=Nancy |title=Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art |publisher=Thames & Hudson |year=2015 |isbn=978-0500294550 |edition=Paperback: Reprint |location=London |pages=29}}</ref><sup>:29</sup> She preferred American higher education and became an American citizen in 1950.<ref name=guggenheim>[http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_103.html Collection Online | Agnes Martin] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060215233601/http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_103.html |date=2006-02-15}}, ''Guggenheimcollection.org''. Accessed March 28, 2011.</ref> Martin studied at [[Western Washington University]] College of Education, [[Bellingham, Washington]], prior to receiving her B.A. (1942) from [[Teachers College, Columbia University]].<ref name="Cotter">{{cite news |first=Holland |last=Cotter |title=Agnes Martin, Abstract Painter, Dies at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/arts/design/17martin.html |date=December 17, 2004 |work=The New York Times |access-date=November 25, 2011}}</ref> It was while living in New York that Martin became interested in modern art and was exposed to artists such as [[Arshile Gorky]] (1904–1948), [[Adolph Gottlieb]] (1903–1974), and [[Joan Miró]] (1893–1983).<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/> She took a multitude of studio classes at Teachers College and began to seriously consider a career as an artist.

In 1947, she attended the Summer Field School of the University of New Mexico in [[Taos, New Mexico]].<ref name="MorrisBell" />{{rp|237}} After hearing lectures by the Zen Buddhist scholar [[D. T. Suzuki]] at Columbia, she became interested in Asian thought, not as a religious discipline, but as a code of ethics, a practical how-to for getting through life.<ref name="Cotter" /> A few years following graduation, Martin matriculated at the [[University of New Mexico]], Albuquerque, where she also taught art courses before returning to Columbia University to earn her M.A. (1952) in modern art.<ref>{{cite news |first=Christopher |last=Knight |title=Agnes Martin, 92; Abstract Painter Won the Golden Lion |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-dec-17-me-martin17-story.html |date=December 17, 2004 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=November 25, 2011}}</ref> She moved to New York City in 1957 and lived in a loft in [[Coenties Slip]] in lower Manhattan.<ref name="MorrisBell" />{{rp|238}} The Coenties Slip was also home to several other artists and their studios.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/> There was a strong sense of community although each had their own practices and artistic temperaments. The Coenties Slip was also a haven for the queer community in the 1960s. It is speculated that Martin was romantically involved with the artist [[Lenore Tawney]] (1907–2007) during this time.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/><ref>{{Cite book|last=Katz|first=Jonathan|title="Agnes Martin and the Sexuality of Abstraction," in Agnes Martin|publisher=Dia Art Foundation and Yale University Press|location=New York and New Haven|pages=176}}</ref> A pioneer of her time, Martin never publicly expressed her sexuality, but has been described as a "closeted homosexual."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fiske|first1=Courtney|title=Agnes Martin|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/04/art_books/agnes-martin-fiske-apr2012|access-date=7 March 2015|website=www.brooklynrail.org|date=2 April 2012 |publisher=The Brooklyn Rail}}</ref> The 2018 biography ''Agnes Martin: Pioneer, Painter, Icon'' describes several romantic relationships between Martin and other women, including the dealer [[Betty Parsons]].<ref name="Martin2018">{{Cite book|last=Martin|first=Henry|title=Agnes Martin: pioneer, painter, icon|year=2018|publisher=Schaffner|isbn=978-1-943156-30-6|edition=First paperback|location=Tucson, Arizona|oclc=981962171}}</ref> She often employed a feminist lens when she critiqued fellow artists' work. [[Jaleh Mansoor]], an art historian, stated that Martin was "too engaged in a feminist relation to practice, perhaps, to objectify and label it as such."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Schiff|first1=Karen L.|date=March 4, 2013|title=Agnes Martin, Under New Auspices|journal=Art Journal|volume=71|issue=3|pages=121–125}}</ref> It is worth noting that Martin herself did not identify as a feminist and even once told a ''New Yorker'' journalist in an interview that she thought "the women's movement had failed."<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Eisler |first=Benita |date=January 25, 1993 |title=Profile: Life Lines |work=New Yorker |pages=70–83 |volume=68 |issue=49 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref>

Martin was publicly known to have [[schizophrenia]],<ref name=":0" /> although it was undocumented until 1962.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/> She even once opted for [[electric shock therapy]] for treatment at [[Bellevue Hospital]] in New York.<ref name=":1" /> Martin did have the support of her friends from the Coenties Slip, who came together after one of her episodes to enlist the help of a respected psychiatrist, who as an art collector was a friend to the community. However, her struggle was a largely private and individual one, and the full effect of the mental illness on her life is unknown.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/>

Martin left New York City abruptly in 1967, disappearing from the art world to live alone.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title = Pretty as a picture |url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/740d2868-fa30-11e4-a41c-00144feab7de.html |newspaper=Financial Times |date=May 22, 2015 |access-date=October 5, 2015 |issn = 0307-1766 |first = Charlie |last = Porter |url-access=subscription}}</ref> After eighteen months on the road camping across both Canada and the western United States, Martin settled in Mesa Portales, near [[Cuba, New Mexico]] (1968-1977).<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/> She rented a 50-acre property and lived a simple life in an adobe home that she built for herself, adding four other buildings over the years.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/> During these years she did not paint, until 1971, when she was approached by curator [[Douglas Crimp]] who was interested in organizing her first solo non-commercial exhibition. Subsequently, Martin started to write and lecture at various universities about her work.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/> Slowly Martin's interest in painting renewed as well. She approached [[Pace Gallery]] about her work and the gallery's founder [[Arne Glimcher]] (b.1938) became her lifelong dealer.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/> Finally able to own her own property, she moved to [[Galisteo, New Mexico]], where she lived until 1993.<ref name="MorrisBell" />{{rp|240}} She built an adobe home there too, still choosing an austere lifestyle. Although she still preferred solitude and lived alone, Martin was more active in the art world, travelling extensively and showing in Canada, the United States, and internationally.<ref name="WPost" /> In 1993 she moved to a retirement residence in [[Taos, New Mexico]], where she lived until her death in 2004.<ref name="MorrisBell" />{{rp|242}}

Many of her paintings bear positive names such as ''Happy Holiday'' (1999) and ''I Love the Whole World'' (2000).<ref name=":1" /> In an interview in 1989, discussing her life and her painting, Martin said, "Beauty and perfection are the same. They never occur without happiness."<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-agnes-martin-13296 |title=Oral history interview with Agnes Martin, 1989 May 15 |publisher=Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |access-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref>

==Career==
Her work is most closely associated with Taos,<ref name="Christies"/> with some of her early work visibly inspired by the desert environment of New Mexico.<ref name=":1" /> However, there is also a strong influence from her young upbringing in rural Canada, particularly the vast and quiet Saskatchewan prairies.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/> While she described herself as an American painter, she never forgot her Canadian roots, returning there after she left New York in 1967, as well as during her extensive travels in the 1970s.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/> Some of Martin's early works have been described as simplified farmer's fields, and Martin herself left her work open to interpretation encouraging comparisons of her unembellished, monochromatic canvases to landscapes.<ref name="Régimbal, Christopher, 1982"/>

She moved to New York City at the invitation of the artist/gallery owner Betty Parsons in 1957 (the women had met prior to 1954). That year, she settled in [[Coenties Slip (Manhattan)|Coenties Slip]] in lower Manhattan, where her friends and neighbors, several of whom were also affiliated with Parsons, included [[Robert Indiana]], [[Ellsworth Kelly]], [[Jack Youngerman]], and [[Lenore Tawney]]. [[Barnett Newman]] actively promoted Martin's work, and helped install Martin's exhibitions at Betty Parsons Gallery beginning in the late 1950s.<ref name="Christies">{{cite web |url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5147496 |author=Agnes Martin |title=Starlight 1963, Lot Notes |publisher=[[Christie's]] |location=New York |work=Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale |date=November 12, 2008 |access-date=March 22, 2014}}</ref> Another close friend and mentor was [[Ad Reinhardt]].<ref name="Saved From the Artist's Fire">{{cite news |first=Ann |last=Landi |date=March 13, 2012 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203753704577253590562995200 |title=Saved From the Artist's Fire |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |access-date=6 August 2017 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 1961 Martin contributed a brief introduction to a brochure for her friend Lenore Tawney's first [[solo exhibition]], the only occasion on which she wrote on the work of a fellow artist.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5437870 |title=Agnes Martin ''Homage to Greece'' (1959) |publisher=[[Christie's]] |location=New York |work=Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale |date=May 11, 2011 |access-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> In 1967, Martin famously abandoned her life in New York. Cited reasons include the death of her friend Ad Reinhardt, the demolition of many buildings on Coenties Slip, and a breakup with the artist [[Chryssa]] whom Martin had dated off and on throughout the 1960s.<ref name="Martin2018" /> In her ten years living in New York Martin was frequently hospitalized to control symptoms of schizophrenia which manifested in the artist in a number of ways, including aural hallucinations and states of catatonia: on a number of occasions she received electroconvulsive therapy at Manhattan's [[Bellevue Hospital]].<ref name="Martin2018" /> After Martin left New York, she drove around the western US and Canada, settling in [[Cuba, New Mexico]] for a few years (1968-1977), then settling in [[Galisteo, New Mexico]] (1977-1993).<ref name="MorrisBell" />{{rp|240–242}} In both New Mexico homes, she built adobe brick structures herself.<ref name="Smithsonian" /> She did not return to art until 1973 and consciously distanced herself from the social life and social events that brought other artists into the public eye.<ref name="Martin2018" /> She collaborated with architect Bill Katz in 1974 on a log cabin she would use as her studio.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Bagley, Christopher |date=March 2008 |url=http://www.wmagazine.com/artdesign/2008/03/bill_katz |title=Perfect Vision |magazine=[[W (magazine)|W]] |access-date=October 6, 2015 |archive-date=May 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528165128/http://www.wmagazine.com/artdesign/2008/03/bill_katz |url-status=dead}}</ref> That same year, she completed a group of new paintings and from 1975 they were exhibited regularly.

In 1976 she made her first film, ''[[Gabriel (1976 film)|Gabriel]]'', a 78-minute landscape film which features a little boy going for a walk.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art|last = Princenthal|first = Nancy|publisher = Thames & Hudson|year = 2015|isbn = 978-0-500-09390-0|location = London|pages = 199}}</ref> A second movie, ''Captivity'', was never completed after the artist threw the rough cut into the town dump.<ref name=Martin2018 />

According to a filmed interview with her that was released in 2003, she had moved from New York City only when she was told her rented loft/workspace/studio would be no longer available because of the building's imminent demolition. She went on further to state that she could not conceive of working in any other space in New York. When she died at age 92, she was said not to have read a newspaper for the last 50 years. Essays in the book dedicated to the exhibition of her work in New York at The [[Drawing Center]] (traveling to other museums as well) in 2005 – ''3x abstraction'' – analyzed the spiritual dimension in Martin's work.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Ew8pPV-59MC |title=3 X Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing, Hilma Af Klint, Emma Kunz, Agnes Martin |editor1=de Zegher, Catherine |editor2=Telcher, Hendel |year=2005 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0300108262 |quote=Published on the occasion of the exhibition 3 x abstraction: new methods of drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin; Organized by the Drawing Center; The Drawing Center, New York, NY, March 19-May 21, 2005, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, June 10-August 13, 2005, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, January 24-March 26, 2006.}}</ref> The 2018 biography ''Agnes Martin: Pioneer, Painter, Icon'' was the first book to explore her relationship with women and her early life in substantial detail, and was written in collaboration with Martin's family and friends.

==Artistic style==
In addition to a couple of self-portraits and a few watercolor landscapes, Martin's early works included biomorphic paintings in subdued colors made when the artist had a grant to work in Taos between 1955 and 1957. However, she did her best to seek out and destroy paintings from the years when she was taking her first steps into abstraction.<ref name="Saved From the Artist's Fire"/><ref name=PaceCircle />

Martin praised [[Mark Rothko]] for having "reached zero so that nothing could stand in the way of truth". Following his example Martin also pared down to the most reductive elements to encourage a perception of perfection and to emphasize transcendent reality.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5147467 |title=Agnes Martin, ''Untitled #1'' (1989) |publisher=[[Christie's]] |location=New York |work=Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale |date=November 12, 2008 |access-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> Her signature style was defined by an emphasis upon line, grids, and fields of extremely subtle color. Particularly in her breakthrough years of the early 1960s, she created 6&nbsp;×&nbsp;6 foot square canvases that were covered in dense, minute and softly delineated graphite grids.<ref name="christies.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4978845 |title=Agnes Martin, ''Loving Love'' (2000) |publisher=[[Christie's]] |location=New York |work=Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale |date=November 13, 2007 |access-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> In the 1966 exhibition ''Systemic Painting'' at the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], Martin's grids were therefore celebrated as examples of [[Minimalist art]] and were hung among works by artists including [[Sol LeWitt]], [[Robert Ryman]], and [[Donald Judd]].<ref name="Alloway">{{cite web |url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/publications/from-the-archives/items/view/72 |title=Systemic Painting: Catalogue for the Exhibition |author=Alloway, Lawrence |year=1966 |publisher=Guggenheim Museum |access-date=October 6, 2015 |location=New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016075833/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/publications/from-the-archives/items/view/72 |archive-date=2015-10-16 |url-status=dead}}</ref> While minimalist in form, however, these paintings were quite different in spirit from those of her other minimalist counterparts, retaining small flaws and unmistakable traces of the artist's hand; she shied away from [[intellectualism]], favoring the personal and spiritual. Her paintings, statements, and influential writings often reflected an interest in Eastern philosophy, especially [[Taoism|Taoist]]. Because of her work's added spiritual dimension, which became more and more dominant after 1967, she preferred to be classified as an [[abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]].<ref name=Stockholm /><ref name=Smithsonian />

Martin worked in only black, white, and brown before moving to New Mexico. The last painting before she abandoned her career, and left New York in 1967, ''Trumpet'', marked a departure in that the single rectangle evolved into an overall grid of rectangles. In this painting the rectangles were drawn in pencil over uneven washes of gray translucent paint.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2003/five-decades |title=Agnes Martin: Five Decades, February 20 – April 26, 2003 |publisher=[[David Zwirner Gallery|Zwirner & Wirth Gallery]] |location=New York |access-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> In 1973, she returned to art making, and produced a portfolio of 30 serigraphs, ''On a Clear Day''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=3556 |title=Agnes Martin 1912 - 2004  |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |location=Ottawa |access-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> During her time in Taos, she introduced light pastel washes to her grids, colors that shimmered in the changing light.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diacenter.org/exhibitions/introduction/89 |publisher=Dia Art Foundation |title=Exhibition: Agnes Martin long term view |location=New York |access-date=March 28, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927044855/http://www.diacenter.org/exhibitions/introduction/89 |archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref> Later, Martin reduced the scale of her signature 72&nbsp;×&nbsp;72 square paintings to 60&nbsp;×&nbsp;60&nbsp;inches,<ref name="Agnes Martin 1994">{{cite web |url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=3918126 |title=Agnes Martin ''Untitled No. 4'' (1994) |publisher=[[Christie's]] |location=New York |work=Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale |date=May 14, 2002 |access-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> and shifted her work to use bands of ethereal color.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/agnes-martin-1583 |title=Agnes Martin 1912–2004: Artist biography |work=Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists |author=Alley, Ronald |year=1981 |page=488 |location=London |access-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> Another departure was a modification, if not a refinement, of the grid structure, which Martin has used since the late 1950s. In ''Untitled No. 4'' (1994), for example, one viewed the gentle striations of pencil line and primary color washes of diluted acrylic paint blended with gesso. The lines, which encompassed this painting, were not measured by a ruler, but rather intuitively marked by the artist.<ref name="Agnes Martin 1994"/> In the 1990s, symmetry would often give way to varying widths of horizontal bands.

Lawrence Alloway noted that Martin is in the first generation of the Abstract Expressionism style, which is significant and "shows her commitment to exalted subject matter" and her ability to "transform it into the language of painting which gives the works their aura of silent dignity."{{cite quote}}

==Exhibitions==

Since her first solo exhibition in 1958, Martin's work has been the subject of more than 85 solo shows and two retrospectives including the survey, ''Agnes Martin'', organized by the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York, which later traveled to Jamaica (1992–94) and ''Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings 1974–1990'' organized by the [[Stedelijk Museum]], Amsterdam, with subsequent venues in France and Germany (1991–92). In 1998, the [[New Mexico Museum of Art|Museum of Fine Arts]] in Santa Fe, New Mexico mounted Agnes Martin Works on Paper. In 2002, the [[Menil Collection]], Houston, mounted ''Agnes Martin: The Nineties and Beyond''. That same year, the [[Harwood Museum of Art]] at the [[University of New Mexico]], Pandora, organized ''Agnes Martin: Paintings from 2001'', as well as a symposium honoring Martin on the occasion of her 90th birthday.

In addition to participating in an international array of group exhibitions such as the [[Venice Biennale]] (1997, 1980, 1976), the [[Whitney Biennial]] (1995, 1977), and [[Documenta]], Kassel, Germany (1972), Martin has been the recipient of multiple honors including the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Women's Caucus for Art of the [[College Art Association]] (2005); Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1992);<ref name="AAAS">{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B |url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=July 25, 2014}}</ref> the Governor's Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts given by Governor [[Gary Johnson]], Santa Fe, New Mexico (1998); the [[National Medal of Arts]]<ref>[http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#98 Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721054307/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html |date=2011-07-21}}, ''nea.gov''. Accessed March 28, 2011.</ref> awarded by President [[Bill Clinton]] and the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] (1998); the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement by the [[College Art Association]] (1998); the [[Golden Lion]] for Contribution to Contemporary Art at the [[Venice Biennale]] (1997); the Oskar Kokoschka Prize awarded by the Austrian government (1992); the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize awarded by the city of Wiesbaden, Germany (1991); and election to the [[American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters]], New York (1989).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php |title=Deceased Members: Agnes Martin |access-date=March 23, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726004624/http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php |archive-date=July 26, 2011}}</ref>

Exhibitions continue to be mounted since her death in 2004, including ''Agnes Martin: Closing the Circle, Early and Late'' from February 10, 2006 to March 04, 2006 at Pace Gallery.<ref name=PaceCircle>{{cite web |url=http://www.pacegallery.com/newyork/exhibitions/11830/agnes-martin-closing-the-circle-early-and-late |title=Agnes Martin: Closing the Circle, Early and Late |publisher=Pace Gallery |date=February 10, 2006 |access-date=October 6, 2015 |archive-date=October 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006220010/http://www.pacegallery.com/newyork/exhibitions/11830/agnes-martin-closing-the-circle-early-and-late |url-status=dead}}</ref> Other exhibitions have been held in New York, Zurich, London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Cambridge (England), Aspen, Albuquerque, British Columbia in Canada.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pacegallery.com/artists/290/agnes-martin/documents |title=Agnes Martin: Selected One-Artist Exhibitions |work=Biographical documents |publisher=Pace Gallery |access-date=October 6, 2015 |archive-date=October 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006230747/http://www.pacegallery.com/artists/290/agnes-martin/documents |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2012, The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, University of New Mexico launched a museum-wide exhibition titled ''Agnes Martin Before the Grid'' in honor of her centennial year. This exhibit was the first to focus on the work and life of Martin prior to 1960. The exhibit focused on many, never seen before, works Martin created at Columbia, Coentis Slip and early years in New Mexico. It was also the first to consider Martins struggle with mental health, sexuality and Martin's important relationship with Ad Reinhardt. In 2015, [[Tate Modern]] ran a retrospective of her life and career from the 1950s until her last work in 2004, which will travel to other museums after the show in London.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=Guardian /> At the [[University of Michigan Museum of Art]], Martin was featured in the exhibition ''Reductive Minimalism: Women Artists in Dialogue, 1960-2014'' which examined the two generations of [[Minimalism|Minimalist]] art side by side, from October 2014 through January 2015.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Reductive Minimalism: Women Artists in Dialogue, 1960—2014 {{!}} University of Michigan Museum of Art|url=https://umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/2014/reductive-minimalism-women-artists-in-dialogue-1960-2014#:~:text=Reductive%20Minimalism:%20Women%20Artists%20in%20Dialogue,%201960-2014%20offers,celebrate%20the%20dialogue%20between%20them.|access-date=2021-01-15|website=umma.umich.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|first=John Carlos|last=Cantu|date=2015-01-03|title=UMMA's 'Reductive Minimalism' exhibit features perspective of women artists|url=https://www.mlive.com/entertainment/ann-arbor/2015/01/umma_reductive_minimalism.html|access-date=2021-01-15|website=mlive|language=en}}</ref> The exhibition included [[Anne Truitt]], [[Mary Corse]], and contemporary artists [[Shirazeh Houshiary]] and [[Tomma Abts]].<ref name=":4" />

She was also featured in ''White on the White: Color, Scene, and Space'' in [[Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art]]. From October 2015 through April 2016, Martin was exhibited in ''Opening the Box: Unpacking Minimalism'' at The George Economou Collection in Athens, Greece alongside [[Dan Flavin]] and [[Donald Judd]]. From 2015 to 2017 she had numerous solo exhibitions, some being at the [[Aspen Art Museum]] in Aspen Colorado, [[Tate Modern]] in London, [[K20 Center|K20]], [[Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen|Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen]] in Düsseldorf, [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] (LACMA) in Los Angeles, [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] on the Upper East Side, at the [[Palace of Governor-General in Kyiv|Palace of Governors]], The New Mexico Museum of History in Santa Fe. She has featured in the ongoing exhibition Intuitive Progression at the Fisher Landau Center for Art in Long Island City, New York from February 2017 to August 2017.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Agnes-Martin/8E9DC2766A9B654A/Exhibitions |title=Events & Exhibitions of Agnes Martin (Canadian, 1912 - 2004) 15 April–13 August 2017 |publisher=Mutual Art, Agnes Martin Exhibitions |access-date=3 March 2017}}</ref>

In 2016, a retrospective exhibition of her works from the 1950s through 2004 was presented at the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] in New York.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/agnes-martin|title=Agnes Martin|date=2016-02-02|language=en-US|access-date=August 5, 2016}}</ref> In 2016 she was also featured in the ''Dansaekhwa and Minimalism Exhibition'' at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles<ref>{{cite news |url=http://artobserved.com/2016/02/los-angeles-dansaekhwa-and-minimalism-at-blum-poe-through-march-12th-2016/ |title=Dansaekhwa and Minimalism at Blum & Poe Through March 12th, 2016 |date=February 26, 2016 |access-date=April 13, 2017 |newspaper=Art Observed |last=Creahan |first=D.}}</ref> and earlier in the year in the show titled ''Aspects of Minimalism: Selections from East End Collections'' at the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=89483 |title=Guild Hall Museum opens "Aspects of Minimalism: Selections from East End Collections" |access-date=April 13, 2017 |publisher=Art Daily}}</ref>

She was also featured in ''Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction'' at [[Museum of Modern Art|The Museum of Modern Art]] in Midtown, New York which shined a light on women artists who worked post [[World War II]] and before the start of the [[Feminist movement]]. The exhibition went from April 2017 to August 2017 and featured [[Lee Krasner]], [[Helen Frankenthaler]], and [[Joan Mitchell]], [[Lygia Clark]], [[Gego]], [[Magdalena Abakanowicz]], [[Louise Bourgeois]], and [[Eva Hesse]].<ref name=":3" />

Martin's work was included in the 2021 exhibition ''[[Women in Abstraction]]'' at the [[Centre Pompidou]].<ref name="Women in abstraction">{{cite book |title=Women in abstraction |date=2021 |publisher=Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc |location=London : New York, New York |isbn=978-0500094372 |pages=170}}</ref>

==Collections==
Martin's work can be found in major public collections in the United States, including the [[New Mexico Museum of Art]], Santa Fe, NM; [[Albright-Knox Art Gallery]], Buffalo, NY; The [[Chinati Foundation]], Marfa, TX; [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]], Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; [[Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art]]; [[The Menil Collection]], Houston, TX; [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York; [[The Museum of Modern Art]], New York; [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington, D.C.; [[Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art]], Kansas City; [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]]; [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York; [[Wadsworth Atheneum]] Museum of Art, Hartford; [[Walker Art Center]], Minneapolis; [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York; and [[Des Moines Art Center]], Des Moines, IA, among others. Her work is on "long-term view" and part of the permanent holdings of [[Dia Art Foundation]], Beacon, New York.<ref name=PaceCircle />

International holdings of Martin's work include the [[Tate]], London and Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.<ref name=Stockholm>{{cite web |url=https://www.magasin3.com/en/publication/agnes-martin-2/ |title=Exhibition folder: Agnes Martin |publisher=Magasin III: Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art |location=Stockholm |access-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref><ref name=Guardian>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/07/agnes-martin-retrospective-review-tate-modern |title=Agnes Martin review – beauty and steeliness |author=Cooke, Rachel |newspaper=The Guardian |date=June 7, 2015 |access-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref>

==Art market==
In 2007, Martin's ''Loving Love'' (2000) was sold for $2.95 million at [[Christie's]], New York.<ref name="christies.com"/> In 2015, ''Untitled #7'' (1984), a white acrylic painting with geometric pencil lines, sold for $4.2 million at [[Phillips (auctioneers)|Phillips]] in New York.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Katya |last1=Kazakina |first2=James |last2=Tarmy |date=May 15, 2015 |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-15/art-market-reaches-new-milestone-with-2-7-billion-sales-frenzy |title=Art Market Reaches New Milestone With $2.7 Billion Sales Frenzy |newspaper=Bloomberg Business |access-date=July 22, 2018}}</ref> In 2016, her ''Orange Grove'' sold at auction for $13.7 million, the same year as the Guggenheim held a retrospective of her work.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Canadian roots and turbulent life of abstract painter Agnes Martin |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-the-canadian-roots-and-turbulent-life-of-abstract-painter-agnes-martin/ |website=www.theglobeandmail.com |access-date=22 July 2018 |date=6 July 2018}}</ref>

==Legacy==
Martin became an inspiration to younger artists, from [[Eva Hesse]] to [[Ellen Gallagher]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Holland Cotter |date=December 17, 2004 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/arts/design/17martin.html |title=Agnes Martin, Abstract Painter, Dies at 92 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 23, 2014}}</ref>

Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster [[Some Living American Women Artists (collage)|Some Living American Women Artists]] by [[Mary Beth Edelson]].<ref name="SAAM">{{cite web |title=Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/some-living-american-women-artistslast-supper-76377 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=21 January 2022}}</ref>

In 1994, the [[Harwood Museum of Art]] in Taos, part of the [[University of New Mexico]], announced that it would renovate its Pueblo-revival building and dedicate one wing to Martin's work.<ref>Carol Vogel (September 23, 1994), [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/23/arts/inside-art.html The Agnes Martin Wing] ''The New York Times''.</ref> The gallery was designed according to the artist's wishes in order to accommodate Martin's gift of seven large untitled paintings made between 1993 and 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.harwoodmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/59 |title=Agnes Martin Gallery, The Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico |location=Taos, NM |publisher=HarwoodMuseum.org |access-date=March 28, 2011 |archive-date=October 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006055644/http://www.harwoodmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/59 |url-status=dead}}</ref> An Albuquerque architectural firm, Kells & Craig, designed the octagonal gallery with an [[oculus (architecture)|oculus]] installed overhead, and four yellow [[Donald Judd]] benches placed directly under the oculus.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://harwoodmuseum.org/about/faqs |title=Can you help me understand the Agnes Martin Gallery? |publisher=Harwood Museum of Art |location=Taos, NM |access-date=March 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kellsandcraig.com/Projects_Base.html |title=Harwood Museum |access-date=March 23, 2014 |work=Kells + Craig Projects |archive-date=October 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026215525/http://www.kellsandcraig.com/Projects_Base.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The gift of the paintings and gallery's design and construction were negotiated and overseen by [[Robert M. Ellis]], the Harwood's director at the time and a close friend of Martin's. Today, the Agnes Martin Gallery attracts visitors from all over the world and has been compared by scholars to the [[Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence]] (Matisse Chapel), Corbusier's [[Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut]] in Ronchamp, and the [[Rothko Chapel]] in Houston. {{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

=== Films about Martin ===
* 2000: Thomas Luechinger: ''On a Clear Day – Agnes Martin.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sikart.ch/kuenstlerinnen.aspx?id=4001147 |author=Luechinger, Thomas |language=de |publisher=Swiss Institute for Art Research |date=2001 |title=Video Installation about Agnes Martin |access-date=January 31, 2016}}</ref> Documentary, 52 minutes.
* 2002: Mary Lance: ''Agnes Martin: With my Back to the World.''<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.newdealfilms.com/documentaries/agnes-martin-with-my-back-to-the-world |publisher=New Deal Films |title=Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World |author=Lance, Mary |isbn=1-878917-10-2 |year=2002 |access-date=January 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129121006/http://www.newdealfilms.com/documentaries/agnes-martin-with-my-back-to-the-world |archive-date=January 29, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Documentary, 57 minutes.
* 2002/2016 (re-edited): Leon d'Avigdor: ''[[Agnes Martin: Between the Lines]].''<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.leon-davigdor.com/agnes-martin_between_the_lines.html |title=Agnes Martin: Between the Lines |year=2002 |author=d'Avigdor, Leon |publisher=Leon d'Avigdor Film |isbn=978-3-00-052261-1 |access-date=January 31, 2016 |quote=Screening: Parts of a roughcut of the movie are screened until March 6, 2016, at Kunstsammlung NRW Duesseldorf (Germany) as part of the accompanying program of the exhibition. }}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Documentary, 60 minutes.
* 2016: Kathleen Brennan and Jina Brenneman: ''Agnes Martin Before the Grid''. Documentary, 56 minutes.

===In popular culture===
Composer [[John Zorn]]'s ''[[Redbird (John Zorn album)|Redbird]]'' (1995) was inspired by and dedicated to Martin.<ref>[http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7008 Tzadik catalogue]</ref>

[[Wendy Beckett]], in her book ''American Masterpieces,'' said about Martin: "Agnes Martin often speaks of joy; she sees it as the desired condition of all life. Who would disagree with her?... No-one who has seriously spent time before an Agnes Martin, letting its peace communicate itself, receiving its inexplicable and ineffable happiness, has ever been disappointed. The work awes, not just with its delicacy, but with its vigor, and this power and visual interest is something that has to be experienced."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Sister Wendy's American Masterpieces |last=Beckett |first=Wendy |publisher=DK |edition=1st American |year=2000 |isbn=978-0789459589 |location=Mishawaka, Indiana, U.S.A. |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/sisterwendysamer00beck}}</ref>

Poet Hugh Behm-Steinberg's poem "Gridding, after some sentences by Agnes Martin" discusses patterns in the natural world, makes a parallel between writing and painting, and ends with a line about the poet's admiration of Martin's work.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Behm-Steinberg |first1=Hugh |year=2008 |title=Three Poems  |journal=EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts |issue=4 |publisher=Charles Alexander |url=http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefour/behm-steinberg.html |access-date=March 23, 2011}}</ref>

Her work inspired a [[Google doodle]] on the 102nd anniversary of her birth on March 22, 2014. The doodle takes color cues from Martin's late work which is marked by soft edges, muted colors and distinctly horizontal bands, turned to six vertical bars, one for each letter of the Google logo.<ref>{{cite news <!-- this link is not found |url=http://imgace.com/pic/tag/agnes-martin-google-doodle-march-22/ --> |title=Agnes Martin: To celebrate the great painter, Google Doodle offers meditative muted beauty |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/03/22/agnes-martin-to-celebrate-the-great-painter-google-doodle-offers-meditative-muted-beauty/ |author=Michael Cavna |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 22, 2014 |access-date=March 25, 2014}}</ref>

The song "Agnes Martin" by American rock band [[Screaming Females]], from their album ''[[All at Once (Screaming Females album)|All at Once]]'', is an ode to the artist.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-23 |title=Screaming Females: All At Once Review |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/screaming-females/screaming-females-all-at-once-review/ |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]}}</ref>

Poet [[Victoria Chang]]'s work ''With My Back to the World'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024) is in conversation with both Martin's artwork and writings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hood |first=Jamie |date=April 10, 2024 |title=How the Work of Agnes Martin Inspired Victoria Chang's New Book of Poems |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/how-the-work-of-agnes-martin-inspired-victoria-chang-book-of-poems |access-date=May 25, 2024 |website=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]}}</ref>

==Publications==
* {{cite book |last=Martin |first=Agnes |title=Writings / Schriften |editor=Dieter Schwarz, Winterthur |location=Ostfildern |publisher=Hatje Cantz Verlag |year=1991 |edition=English and German |isbn=3-89322-326-6}}
* {{cite book |last=Martin |first=Agnes |chapter=The Untroubled Mind |title=Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art |url=https://archive.org/details/theoriesdocument0000stil |url-access=registration |editor1=Stiles, Kristine |editor2=Selz, Peter |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |year=1996 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/theoriesdocument0000stil/page/128 128–137] |isbn=0-520-20253-8}}

== See also ==
* [[Carl Andre]] (born 1935), American sculptor 
* [[Jo Baer]] (born 1929), American artist, associated with minimalist art
* [[Larry Bell (artist)|Larry Bell]] (born 1939), American sculptor
* [[Ronald Bladen]] (1918–1988), American sculptor
* [[Robert Mangold]] (born 1937), American painter
* [[John McCracken (artist)|John McCracken]] (1934-2011), American sculptor
* [[Robert Morris (artist)|Robert Morris]] (born 1931), American sculptor
* [[Fred Sandback]] (1943–2003), American installation artist
* [[Tony Smith (sculptor)|Tony Smith]] (1912–1980), pioneer of minimalist sculpture
* [[Frank Stella]] (born 1936), American painter/sculptor

==References==
{{Reflist|3}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Berggruen |first=Olivier |chapter=Agnes Martin - The Lightness of Art |title=The Writing of Art |publisher=Pushkin Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-906548-62-9}}
* {{cite book |editor=Brandauer, Aline |title=Agnes Martin: Works on Paper |publisher=Lumen Books |year=1999 |isbn=978-0936050249}}
* Brennan, Kathleen; Brenneman, Jina (2012)'', Agnes Martin: Before the Grid.'' Taos, New Mexico: Harwood Museum of Art
*{{cite news |last=Castle |first=Jack |title=Philosopher, artist, pioneer, recluse |work=Art World News |date=June 2, 2015 |url=http://www.christies.com/features/Agnes-Martin-Philosopher-artist-pioneer-recluse-6176-1.aspx?PID=newsviews_landing_morefeatures2 |access-date=2015-06-03}} An interview with [[Arne Glimcher]].
* {{cite book |last=Fer |first=Briony |author-link=Briony Fer |chapter=Drawing Drawing: Agnes Martin's Infinity |title=3x An Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin |editor=de Zegher, Catherine |editor-link=Catherine de Zegher |editor2=Teicher, Hendel |location=New Haven |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0300108262 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/3xabstractionnew0000unse}} 
**Reprinted in {{cite book |title=Women Artists at the Millennium |editor=Armstrong, Carol |editor2=de Zegher, Catherine |publisher=MIT Press |series=October Books |year=2006 |isbn=978-0262012263 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/womenartistsatmi0000unse}}
* {{cite book |last=Glimcher |first=Arne |title=Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances |series=20th Century Living Masters |publisher=Phaidon Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0714859965}}
* {{cite book |last=Haskell |first=Barbara |title=Agnes Martin |location=New York |publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art |year=1992 |isbn=978-0810968059}}
* {{cite book |last=Krauss |first=Rosalind E. |author-link=Rosalind E. Krauss |chapter=Agnes Martin: The/Cloud/ |title=Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art in, of, and From the Feminine |edition=2nd |editor=de Zegher, Catherine |editor-link=Catherine de Zegher  |publisher=MIT Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0262540810}}
* {{cite book |last1=Martin |first1=Henry |title=Agnes Martin: Pioneer, Painter, Icon |year=2018 |publisher=Schaffner Press |isbn=978-1943156306}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Morris |editor1-first=Frances |editor1-link=Frances Morris (gallerist) |editor2-last=Bell |editor2-first=Tiffany |title=Agnes Martin |publisher=Tate Publishing |year=2015|isbn=978-1-84976-268-7}}
* {{cite book |last=Pollock |first=Griselda |author-link=Griselda Pollock |chapter=Agnes Dreaming: Dreaming Agnes |title=3x An Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin |editor=de Zegher, Catherine |editor2=Teicher, Hendel |location=New Haven |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0300108262 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/3xabstractionnew0000unse}}
* Régimbal, Christopher. ''[https://aci-iac.ca/art-books/agnes-martin Agnes Martin: Life & Work]''. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2019. {{ISBN|9781487102128}}.
* {{cite book |last=Woodman |first=Donald |year=2015 |title=Agnes Martin and Me |publisher=Lyon Artbooks |isbn=978-0996784306}}

==External links==
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*[https://www.moma.org/artists/3787 Agnes Martin in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art]
*[https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-agnes-martin-13296 Oral history interview with Agnes Martin, 1989 May 15], [[Archives of American Art]], Smithsonian Institution
*[https://www.beforethegrid.org/ Agnes Martin: Before The Grid, 2012, Documentary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408162922/https://www.beforethegrid.org/ |date=2022-04-08 }}, Harwood Museum of Art
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