Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art
by Nancy Princenthal.
Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., $39.95
Agnes Martin
an exhibition at Tate Modern, London, June 3–October 11, 2015; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, November 7, 2015–March 6, 2016; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 24–September 11, 2016; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York City, October 7, 2016– January 11, 2017.
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Frances Morris and Tiffany Bell. D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 271 pp., $55.00
London. Late summer, 2015. The city’s habitual pearly gray daylight adds, it seems, an extra layer or patina of ardor and melancholy to the Canadian-born Agnes Martin’s extraordinary mid-tolate-career paintings—images made, for the most part, on square canvases measuring seventy-two inches, and filled with stripes of varying widths and hues that remain, twelve years after…
