# Merrill Wagner

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{{short description|American visual artist}}
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| birth_date       = {{Birth year and age|1935}}
| birth_place      = Tacoma, Washington
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| spouse           = {{Marriage|[Robert Ryman](/source/Robert_Ryman)|1969|2019|end=d.}}
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| alma_mater       = [Sarah Lawrence College](/source/Sarah_Lawrence_College)
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'''Merrill Wagner''' (born 1935, Tacoma)<ref name="Merrill Wagner">{{cite web |title=Merrill Wagner |url=https://www.merrillwagner.com/cv-mw |website=Merrill Wagner CV |access-date=3 March 2026 |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref> is an American visual artist. In 1953 Wagner graduated from Annie Wright Seminary (now, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Wright_Schools Annie Wright Schools]) were she went on to attend Sarah Lawrence. In 1957 Wagner graduated from [Sarah Lawrence College](/source/Sarah_Lawrence_College).<ref name="University of Rhode Island">{{cite web |title=Looking at the Land: Merrill Wagner Paintings |url=https://www.uri.edu/news/2007/01/looking-at-the-land-merrill-wagner-paintings/ |website=University of Rhode Island |access-date=20 April 2025}}</ref> She settled in New York City<ref name="New York Studio School">{{cite web |title=Merrill Wagner |url=https://nyss.org/exhibition/merrill-wagner/ |website=New York Studio School |access-date=20 April 2025}}</ref> where she studied with [Edwin Dickinson](/source/Edwin_Dickinson) and attended the [Art Students League of New York](/source/Art_Students_League_of_New_York).<ref name="University of Rhode Island"/> Wagner began her career working in the [Minimalist style](/source/Minimalism). Her later work incorporates representational painting executed on a variety of surfaces.<ref name="The Brooklyn Rail">{{cite web |title=Merrill Wagner |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2022/11/artseen/Merrill-Wagner-at-Zwirner/ |website=The Brooklyn Rail |access-date=20 April 2025 |language=en |date=30 July 2024 |archive-date=29 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250429234144/https://brooklynrail.org/2022/11/artseen/Merrill-Wagner-at-Zwirner/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Artforum">{{cite web |last1=Madsen |first1=Kristian Vistrup |title=Merrill Wagner |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/merrill-wagner-3-249875/ |website=Artforum |access-date=20 April 2025 |date=22 April 2022 |archive-date=27 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250127154502/https://www.artforum.com/events/merrill-wagner-3-249875/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Wagner is a member of [American Abstract Artists](/source/American_Abstract_Artists).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Current Members |url=https://americanabstractartists.org/current-members-post/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250218123822/https://americanabstractartists.org/current-members-post/ |archive-date=February 18, 2025 |access-date=May 1, 2025 |website=[American Abstract Artists](/source/American_Abstract_Artists)}}</ref>

Wagner's work was included in the 1971 exhibition ''[Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists](/source/Twenty_Six_Contemporary_Women_Artists)'' held at [The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum](/source/The_Aldrich_Contemporary_Art_Museum)<ref name="Printed Matter">{{cite web |title=Lucy Lippard - Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists |url=https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/57416/ |website=Printed Matter |access-date=20 April 2025 |language=en}}</ref> and the 2022 exhibition ''52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone'' also at the Aldrich.<ref name="Aldrich2">{{cite web |title=52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone |url=https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/52-artists-revisiting-a-feminist-milestone |website=The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum |access-date=20 April 2025 |language=en |archive-date=30 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250330000607/https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/52-artists-revisiting-a-feminist-milestone |url-status=live }}</ref> Her work is in the collection of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,<ref name="Aldrich">{{cite web |title=Merrill Wagner |url=https://thealdrich.org/page/merrill-wagner |website=The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum |access-date=20 April 2025 |language=en |archive-date=29 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250429234115/https://thealdrich.org/page/merrill-wagner |url-status=live }}</ref> the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/source/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art),<ref name="Metropolitan">{{cite web |last1=Wagner |first1=Merrill |title=Untitled |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/853958 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=20 April 2025 |date=1988}}</ref> the [Smithsonian American Art Museum](/source/Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum),<ref name="Smithsonian American Art Museum">{{cite web |title=Merrill Wagner |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/merrill-wagner-5192 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=20 April 2025 |language=en |archive-date=16 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241216225517/https://americanart.si.edu/artist/merrill-wagner-5192 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [Whitney Museum of American Art](/source/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art).<ref name="Whitney">{{cite web |title=Merrill Wagner |url=https://whitney.org/artists/4717 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=20 April 2025 |language=en |archive-date=19 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250419024654/https://whitney.org/artists/4717 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Wagner was the second wife of fellow artist [Robert Ryman](/source/Robert_Ryman) (1930–2019) whom she married in 1969,<ref name="David Zwirner">{{cite web |title=Now Representing The Estate of Robert Ryman and artist Merrill Wagner |url=https://www.davidzwirner.com/news/2021/now-representing-the-estate-of-robert-ryman-and-artist-merrill-wagner |website=David Zwirner |access-date=20 April 2025 |language=en |archive-date=29 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250429234742/https://www.davidzwirner.com/news/2021/now-representing-the-estate-of-robert-ryman-and-artist-merrill-wagner |url-status=live }}</ref> and with whom she had two children.<ref name="Art & Object">{{cite web |title=The House of Ryman: A Family of Artists |url=https://www.artandobject.com/articles/house-ryman-family-artists |website=Art & Object |access-date=20 April 2025 |language=en |archive-date=29 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250429235426/https://www.artandobject.com/articles/house-ryman-family-artists |url-status=live }}</ref>

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