Agnes Martin: Painter, Pioneer, Icon

Agnes Martin: Painter, Pioneer, Icon

by Henry Martin
Agnes Martin: Painter, Pioneer, Icon

Agnes Martin: Painter, Pioneer, Icon

by Henry Martin

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Overview

This is an intimate and revealing biography of Agnes Martin, renowned American painter, considered one of the great women artists of the 20th and 21st Century. A resident of both New Mexico and New York City, Martin has always remained an enigma due to her fiercely guarded private life. Henry Martin, award-winning writer, and art scholar, having access to those who were close to Agnes Martin—friends, family, former lovers—gives us a full portrait of this universally revered artist. Readers will learn of her bouts with mental illness, her several significant lesbian relationships, and her lifelong yearning for recognition despite her reclusive lifestyle and need for privacy. Arriving in the wake of major international retrospective exhibitions of her work from London's Tate Modern, LACMA in Los Angeles, and the Guggenheim in New York City, this book provides a perspective of Agnes Martin that has not been seen in earlier, more academic works or fine-art monographs. Certain to be a mainstay for readers of the arts, and admirers of the creative spirit, this book also includes rare photographs from Martin’s family and friends, many of which have never appeared in a book before.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781943156306
Publisher: Schaffner Press
Publication date: 02/12/2018
Pages: 372
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Henry Martin is an award-winning Irish writer. His plays have featured at Project Arts Centre, Roundhouse, Underbelly, Arcola, Theatre503, and Belltable; his fiction and poetry is published in Ireland, Mexico, USA and UK; and he has written on art and books for Soho House and Phaidon Press, where he worked in editorial and rights. He has a BA in English and Philosophy from the National University of Ireland, Galway, an MA in Playwriting from Royal Holloway, University of London, and he is pursuing an MA(Res) in art history at the University of Buckingham and the National Gallery, London, with a Tavolozza Foundation Scholarship. His limited edition book Yappo (2017) received a Tipperary Artists Award, and funding from the University for the Creative Arts, London. Henry is an Emily Harvey Foundation resident, and was researcher on, and narrator of, the award-winning documentary Agnes Martin Before The Grid (2016). www.henry-martin.co.uk

Table of Contents

A Note On Artwork 11

Prologue: Who Was Agnes Martin? 17

Pioneer: (1912-1957) 25

1 Millet's Horizon (1912-1933) 31

2 The Kane Sisters (1933-1946) 39

3 All The Way To Albuquerque (1946-1951) 49

4 Daphne Cowper Vaughn 59

5 Personages (1951-1954) 65

6 Taos, New Mexico (1954-1957) 79

7 Kristina Brown Wilson 85

Painter: (1957-1967) 103

8 Betty Parsons 109

9 Coenties Slip, New York 119

10 Lenore Tawney 147

11 Leaving New York 165

Icon: (1967-2004) 181

12 Becoming Someone Else (1967-1973) 187

13 Cuba, On A Clear Day (1971-1976) 195

14 Gabriel 221

15 Galisteo (1977-1993) 231

16 I Came Home (1993-2004) 247

17 Studio Life 263

18 The Storyteller Cinema 273

19 An Unlikely Benefactor 283

20 The Peach Tree (2004-2012) 291

Epilogue: Serendipities (2014) 297

Afterword 299

Acknowledgments 311

Notes 315

Bibliography 341

Index 349

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