AGNES MARTIN

Over the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin's austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalis m, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitary existence in the American Southwest. `I paint with my back to the world', she claimed/ when she died at ninety-two, in Taos, New Mexico, it is said she had not read a newspaper in half a century .