someone a photograph of agnes martin on the roof of her studio with jack geller man, ellsworth kelly, robert indiana. >> one thing about meeting agnes when i started to deal with her at the beginning she said remember, we are not friends we are toilers together in the art field but we are not friends. she was really afraid of friendship. >> rose: with everybody. >> with everybody. >> rose: look at the number two. this is dessert rain 1957, oil on canvas. >> so this is the beginning of martin's mature work and you can see there's influence of joseph albers but she's beginning to limit the amount of content in the painting. >> rose: the next is pilgrimage. acrylic on pencil on canvas. >> this is a "greater boston" painting. this is the one of the key early works and the way you have to look at these paintings is by erasing any kind of prejudice as to what you think you're seeing and look at the painting and it becomes a mantra these paintsings are especially calming, especially beautiful with time and agnes said to me once from music they accept pure emotion, from art they expect explan