Donald Judd’s permanent installation is located in Marfa, Texas.
Judd first visited Marfa in 1971 and later moved there permanently. The small West Texas town offered large, inexpensive former military buildings and an expansive desert setting—ideal for his belief that art, architecture, and landscape should be experienced together.
With assistance from the Dia Art Foundation, Judd began converting the former Fort D. A. Russell into exhibition spaces in 1979. The resulting institution, opened to the public in 1986, became the Chinati Foundation. Judd’s Marfa works include 100 untitled aluminum pieces and 15 concrete works installed in carefully adapted buildings and grounds.
Marfa is sometimes described as Judd’s museum, but it is not a single installation or conventional gallery. Several foundations and institutions preserve different parts of his legacy there, including Chinati and the Judd Foundation. The town is also home to works by other major artists, making it an important center of American minimalism.