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Works of Art by Agnes Martin and Hiroyuki Doi

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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Agnes Martin's Paintings of Innocence

Agnes Martin was an elite swimmer in Canada before moving to the U.S. She worked briefly as a chauffeur for John Houston, who was about to become a famous movie director. Little of that work survives because Martin destroyed nearly everything she painted in those years. The Tree is her first success; it's a grid of long, thin rectangles painted over horizontal stripes and alternate between lighter and darker blue.

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