Matthew Marks Gallery

This monograph reproduces the seven large paintings and thirteen works on paper shown in the eponymous exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery, along with twenty-one smaller drawings, which together comprise the Letter series. Brice Marden’s largest cohesive body of work since the 1991 Cold Mountain series, the Letter series was inspired by a piece of Sung dynasty Chinese calligraphy he saw in the National Palace Museum of Taipei in 2006. Jeffrey Weiss’s essay draws on recent conversations to provide a detailed description of the artist’s process.