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Article: Agnes Martin: An Awareness of Perfection.(Dia:Beacon show)

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October 1, 2004
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The rarely exhibited early paintings of Agnes Martin executed before she was recognized as a stellar American minimalist artist are being shown by the Dia:Beacon museum to mark its first anniversary in the Hudson River town of Beacon, New York.

Three galleries in the vast, skylighted building that once was a cereal- box printing plant are given over to 21 paintings by Martin, who is still working at 92 and recently had an exhibition of new paintings in New York City. The Beacon display is limited to the years 1957, when she moved from New Mexico to New York, to 1967, when she returned to live near Taos, New Mexico, for good.

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