Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle bought a small drawing from Agnes Martin in 1963. Tuttle was at the time 22 years old and headed into the U.S. Air Force. The drawing he bought consisted of 210 vertical and horizontal ink lines on a 9-by-9-inch square of paper. "I remember asking myself," he says, "what the difference was between graph paper and Agnes's grids." Martin also recalls that meeting in 1963 and adds another detail. "He took a while to pay for it, and that's how we became friends."






THE ART OF RICHARD TUTTLE
22 april - 30 July 2007
MOCA Grand
Los Angeles