It’s been 12 years since the passing of Agnes Martin at the age of 92, and still her paintings remain as alive as when they were first conceived. The current retrospective of Martin’s work, now in its ...

Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Taos (2014) (All photos by Henry Martin and used with permission) According to popular lore, Agnes Martin, one of the 20th century’s most influential artists, was a recluse ...

In a moment of dramatic suspense, a slow but determined bidding war broke out over Agnes Martin’s Grey Stone II (1961) during the Emily Fisher Landau Collection sale at Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday ...

Agnes Bernice Martin, painter: born Macklin, Saskatchewan 22 March 1912; died Taos, New Mexico 16 December 2004. In June this year, the American painter Agnes Martin shocked the normally unshockable ...

“I used to look in my mind for the unwritten page If my mind was empty enough I could see it…” —Agnes Martin The Agnes Martin retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which ...

It’s a bit of a myth that when Agnes Martin left New York in 1967 and then settled in New Mexico, she did so as a means of retreating from the art world. She may have been disillusioned with New York, ...

AGNES MARTIN’S best-known paintings feature stripes or grids in muted colors stretched across 6-foot-square canvases. At a recent exhibit dedicated to the Canadian-born artist (1912-2004) at New ...

Art authenticators and catalogue raisonné authors can breath a sigh of relief. For a second time, a judge has shut down a set of extensive legal claims brought by a disgruntled dealer against ...

Look at an Agnes Martin painting from a distance and you might see a simple block of blue or a sequence of stripes in eggshell shades. Step in closely, however, and these minimalist patterns unfold ...

This major Agnes Martin retrospective contains some gems, but overemphasis on her less original work disguises her worth Untitled, 2004 by Agnes Martin at Tate Modern. Photograph: Guy Bell/REX ...