BRICE MARDEN The American artist Brice Marden (b. 1938) is one of the great contemporary painters. Brice Marden"s first works were the Minimalist monochrome panels of the 1960s, large, austere, "implacable" oil and wax paintings characterized by a precise coolness. In 1975 Marden had a one-man show at the Guggenheim Museum. Laura Garrard looks at Marden"s artistic career, from the early works, the multi-panel works of the 1970s, the Sea Paintings, Grove Group, Greek and landscape works, and the "Annunciation Series" and Thira. In the 1980s, Brice Marden developed a "calligraphic" or "Oriental" art, which appeared in many prints as well as large canvases. Brice Marden studied at Florida Southern College, Lakeland, and Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1961. That year, he worked at Yale Norfolk Summer School in Connecticut. In 1963 he was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree in...