Brice Marden, who re-energized the art of painting in the 1960s with his subdued, yet seductive, monochrome canvases, and who drew on minimalism, abstract expressionism, scholar’s rocks and Chinese calligraphy, died at his home in Tivoli, N.Y. He was 84.
The cause was cancer, according to a family statement shared by his studio. Mr. Marden, who was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2017, was painting as recently as Saturday, preparing for a planned November exhibition at one of Gagosian’s New York galleries.was first known for his mysterious monochrome canvases, the centerpiece of his New York debut in 1966 at the fledgling Bykert Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.
“People were saying painting was dead. And this was my way of thinking, well, there are things that haven’t been done,” he told Harry Cooper, the head of modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington,Although he was often associated with the minimalist art movement, Mr. Marden’s paintings had a mythic quality that eluded labels.
Nicholas Brice Marden Jr. was born in Bronxville, N.Y., on Oct. 15, 1938, and grew up in nearby Briarcliff Manor. His father was a mortgage servicer, his mother a homemaker. One of his neighbors, a painter-turned-advertising-executive, encouraged his interest in art, offering reassurance to Mr. Marden’s parents, who wanted their son to get an Ivy League education.
“You do something almost by accident, and then you do a lot of work, and you can intellectually justify it,” he said in the oral history. He added that he was also moved by the work of Johns, who had turned recognizable images — most famously, an American flag — into abstractions in his paintings. “I felt I was doing a very similar thing,” Mr. Marden said, “except I had no image.” Instead, he was simply painting a rectangle, in the form of a canvas fitted to rectangular stretchers.
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