Night
Agnes Martin
1963
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View on museum website →Medium
black and white ink?
Dimensions
overall: 29.5 x 23.2 cm (11 5/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Accession Number
1976.56.113
About the Artist
Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin (1912–2004) was a Canadian-born American painter who became one of the most revered abstract artists of the twentieth century, known for her luminous, meditative paintings of grids and horizontal bands. Born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, she moved to the United States in the 1930s and studied at Columbia University in New York, where she was influenced by Zen Buddhism and Taoist philosoph...