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The Chinati Foundation is located on 340 acres (1.4 km 2) of land on the site of former Fort D. A. Russell in Marfa, Texas, and in some buildings in the town's center. Donald Judd first visited Marfa, Texas, in 1971, and moved himself from New York to Marfa as a full-time resident in 1977.
Judd was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. [2] From 1946 to 1947, he served in the Army as an engineer, and in 1948, he enrolled in the College of William and Mary.Later, he transferred to Columbia University School of General Studies where he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and where he worked towards a master's in art history under Rudolf Wittkower and Meyer Schapiro while ...
Marfa experienced economic issues after the war ended and after a drought impaired agricultural output. Artist Donald Judd arrived in 1973 and began buying properties to renovate, which resulted in bohemian interest in the community. [10] In 2012 Vanity Fair described it as a "playground" for "art-world pioneers and pilgrims". [11]
Deep in the Chihuahuan high desert, Marfa was colonized in 1979 by minimalist sculptor Donald Judd, who purchased a compound of decommissioned military buildings and transformed them into austere ...
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Judd's museum opened to the public in 1986 as the Chinati Foundation. Building 98, Marfa, Texas, 2012. Located at Fort David A. Russell's central complex is Building 98, a project of the International Woman's Foundation and the home of the iconic World War II German POW murals.
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