Finally, the long-awaited, detailed biography of the American century artist Agnes Martin (1912-2004) is here! How did this extraordinary woman live? How did Agnes Martin, often described as both austere and alluring, and highly focused on autonomy, find her way as a painter? Why did she leave New York and her friends (artists like Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, and Ad Reinhardt) at such a young age and forgo any artistic activity for years despite early successes? Instead, she traveled across the USA in a pickup truck until she eventually found her home: In the New Mexico desert, she built herself an adobe house, in an environment that was shimmering, empty, magical, and luminous, which inspired her to create works of extreme reduction, minimalism, and transcendence: surfaces behind which she - d.