Merrill Wagner

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Merrill Wagner
Born1935 (age 90–91)
Seattle, Washington
Alma materSarah Lawrence College
Spouse
(m. 1969; died 2019)
Websitemerrillwagner.com

Merrill Wagner (born 1935, Seattle)[1] is an American visual artist. In 1957 Wagner graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.[2] She settled in New York City[3] where she studied with Edwin Dickinson and attended the Art Students League of New York.[2] Wagner began her career working in the Minimalist style. Her later work incorporates representational painting executed on a variety of surfaces.[4][5] Wagner is a member of American Abstract Artists.[6]

Wagner's work was included in the 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists held at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum[7] and the 2022 exhibition 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone also at the Aldrich.[8] Her work is in the collection of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,[9] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[10] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[11]

Wagner was the second wife of fellow artist Robert Ryman (1930–2019) whom she married in 1969,[12] and with whom she had two children.[13]

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