Agnes Martin (1912-2004) --- Untitled 1960 (oil on canvas)
In the early 1960s, the close personal and professional friendship between abstract painter Agnes martin an textile artist Lenore Tawney mutually informed their evolving art practices. That fruitful exchange in evidenced in “Untitled”, in which Martin’s central field of close-packed alternately dark and light lines, anchored by an interwoven border, recalls Tawney’s graphic structures comprised of exposed threads. Created at a formative moment in martin’s career, her transitional work anticipates Tawney’s masterly “Vespers”, with its innovative use of open-warp weaves.
Agnes Martin (1912-2004) --- Untitled 1960 (oil on canvas)
In the early 1960s, the close personal and professional friendship between abstract painter Agnes martin an textile artist Lenore Tawney mutually informed their evolving art practices. That fruitful exchange in evidenced in “Untitled”, in which Martin’s central field of close-packed alternately dark and light lines, anchored by an interwoven border, recalls Tawney’s graphic structures comprised of exposed threads. Created at a formative moment in martin’s career, her transitional work anticipates Tawney’s masterly “Vespers”, with its innovative use of open-warp weaves.