Just dug this one out. I think I’ll put it up now spring’s here. ‘On a Clear Day…

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Just dug this one out. I think I’ll put it up now spring’s here. ‘On a Clear Day’ (1973) by Agnes Martin (1912-2004). For those of you who didn’t get to see her retrospective at Tate Modern last year Martin was groundbreaking not only in that she was a woman who, along with Krasner and Frankenthaler, managed to break into the male-dominated abstract expressionist land-grab for a new post war American artistic identity, but also that she went on to establish her own identifiable brand of sensitive minimalism. She was represented in New York by Betty Parsons, who along with dealers Leo Castelli and Sidney Janis, were at the fulcrum of USA’s Cold War aesthetic arsenal – loaded with the imagery and metaphor of freedom.

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