Untitled #2

1981

Agnes Martin

Artist, American, born Canada, 1912 - 2004

Narrow, horizontal bands of oyster white, pale blue, and faint peach, separated by denim-blue lines like a ruled sheet of paper, fill this square painting. The white, peach, and blue bands do not make a pattern, and there are a few areas where several white rows are clustered, including along the bottom edge.
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On View

East Building Upper Level, Gallery 403

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    acrylic and blue pencil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 182.9 x 182.9 cm (72 x 72 in.)
    framed: 184.2 x 184.2 x 3.8 cm (72 1/2 x 72 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1992.28.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Consigned September 1981 by the artist to (Pace Gallery, New York); sold 26 April 1982 to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Halff, Jr., San Antonio;[1] (Mary Boone Gallery, New York); sold November 1987 to Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Maryland;[2] gift 1992 to NGA.
[1] The painting was no. 09752 in the Pace Gallery's records. Documentation of the consignment and sale were provided by Pace to Tiffany Bell, editor, Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné, who kindly shared the information in her e-mail of 11 June 2013; copy in NGA curatorial files. The provenance for the painting published in the 1996 catalogue of the Meyerhoff exhibition at the NGA (The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995) incorrectly began with Barbara Guggenheim, New York (an art consultant), followed by Robert H. Halff (1908-2004, a Los Angeles collector).
[2] Invoice #2910 dated 26 November 1987, from Mary Boone Gallery to Mr. and Mrs. Meyerhoff; copy in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1981

  • Agnes Martin Paintings 1981, Pace Gallery, New York, 1981.

1985

  • Private Treasure, Public View, San Antonio Museum of Art, 1985, checklist no. 34.

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 106, color repro.

2006

  • A Field of Vision: Agnes Martin's Paintings from the 1980s, Dia:Beacon Riggio Galleries, New York, 2006-2007, no. 6 of checklist (no cat.).

2009

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010, pl. 86.

2014

  • Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2014, pl. 34.

Wikidata ID

Q20197832

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