Agnes
Martin
Early Life and the Seeds of Abstraction Agnes Bernice Martin, born in 1912 in the small prairie town of Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada, embarked on a life journey that would ultimately redefine the boundaries of abstract art. Her early years were marked by a nomadic existence …
A portrait built from Agnes Martin's own colours
Every 17 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
