... Elkon Gallery in New York almost annually since 1961, she abruptly gave up painting in 1967 and moved to Cuba, New Mexico. "Every day I suddenly felt I wanted to die and it was connected with painting," she explained, as quoted in World Artists 1950-1980. "It took me several ... years to find out that the cause was an overdeveloped sense of responsibility." In her six years of self-rediscovery, ... at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, was called "On the Perfection Underlying Life." Over the years Agnes Martin can be seen as striving to open herself to happiness, which she has def...

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