(They formed a kind of book club of two, reading Blake, Lao Tzu, Gertrude Stein and St. Teresa aloud to each other.) (Donated to the Guggenheim by Tawney in 1963, it was the first Martin painting to enter a museum collection.) She insisted on calling herself a “late, late Abstract Expressionist,” and you sort of see what she means with her always evident brushwork and slightly tremulous lines. How do people for whom abstract painting is an unknown language get to experience this lift? “Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my paintings,” Martin wrote.

Source: New York Times October 06, 2016 21:45 UTC