Back in 1971, Donald Judd was a renown artist who was already a success in New York City, but he pined for something that even an arts haven like the Big Apple couldn’t offer.
Judd was desiring more space than New York City’s smaller galleries and buildings had available, so he headed west and discovered Marfa, a desert town that historically has smaller than many high schools around the country.
What drew Judd to Marfa though was its desert setting and space, someplace where he could fully display his work both in inside and outside settings. So he bought a decommissioned Army base, 16 buildings that were decaying, and three ranches that were spread across 40,000 acres.One of the signature displays that Judd created is a set of 15 concrete cubes that is spread out across a field of prairie grass.Even though Judd has been dead for nearly 30 years, his creations and impact are alive and well to this day.
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