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Ellsworth Kelly

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Fan account of Ellsworth Kelly, an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. 1923-2015 Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Oranges from Suite of Plant Lithographs http://www.moma.org/collection/works/77272

Given anonymously

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The Paris Review http://www.moma.org/collection/works/203705

Gift of the Ellsworth Kelly Studio

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Conques from Romanesque Series http://www.moma.org/collection/works/64072

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Powers

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Dominican https://www.wikiart.org/en/ellsworth-kelly/dominican-1952-1

Dominican

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Red Yellow Blue III https://www.wikiart.org/en/ellsworth-kelly/red-yellow-blue-iii-1966

Red Yellow Blue III

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Colored Paper Image XVI (Blue Yellow Red) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/60736

Gift of the artist

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Jack Blue http://www.moma.org/collection/works/60878

Given anonymously

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Red Yellow Blue White and Black II https://www.artic.edu/artworks/157156/

Emphasizing the basics of line, shape, and color, Ellsworth Kelly’s exquisitely spare paintings and sculpture influenced the development of Minimalist art and affected the course of color-field painting, hard-edge painting, and postpainterly abstraction. Among the Art Institute’s rich holdings of Kelly’s works, Red Yellow Blue White and Black stands apart: with startling clarity, this painting marks the moment at midcentury when Kelly’s pure abstraction emerged in its mature form. After serving in World War II, the artist returned to Europe in 1948, living and working in France for the following six years. While abroad, Kelly expanded his practice of direct observation of nature and architectural forms into an experimental, rigorous study of abstraction. He made Red Yellow Blue White and Black in 1953 while still in France, creating it just as he was beginning to uncover the nearly infinite possibilities of monochrome, color spectrum, chance ordering, and multipanel composition. In the painting, Kelly centered the black panel so that it both divides and joins the three panels on either side of it, while the white panels simultaneously separate colors and pair them off. The blue panels at either end close and unify the sequence. Kelly’s multipanel monochromes rely on the edges where sections meet, instead of handmade marks, to express their form. This seven-panel painting is the largest in a sequence of Paris-based works widely considered to be the artist’s finest and most influential early statements on canvas.

Gift of the Anstiss and Ronald Krueck Collection

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Red Orange White Green Blue https://www.wikiart.org/en/ellsworth-kelly/red-orange-white-green-blue-1968

Red Orange White Green Blue

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Orange and Blue over Yellow (Orange et bleu sur jaune) from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs http://www.moma.org/collection/works/72719

Given anonymously

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Sketch of a Beach Cabana III https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/173825

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the artist and purchase from the Margaret Fisher Fund and through the generosity of Kenyon C. Bolton III, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Richard E. Oldenburg, and Emily Rauh Pulitzer in honor of Neil and Angelic...

© Ellsworth Kelly Foundation

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[Untitled] https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/103141

© Ellsworth Kelly and Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc., New York

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The Chicago Panels https://www.artic.edu/artworks/152760/

Harold L. Stuart Endowment

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Curve in Relief III (EK561) https://www.wikiart.org/en/ellsworth-kelly/curve-in-relief-iii-ek561-1978

Curve in Relief III (EK561)

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Circle Line https://www.wikiart.org/en/ellsworth-kelly/circle-line-1951

Circle Line

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Seaweed https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46102/

Seaweed

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Black Form from 9 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78102

John B. Turner Fund

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Orange Relief with Green http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kelly-orange-relief-with-green-t07478

Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery 1998

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Red Curve (for Parkett no. 56) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/68974

Robert and Anna Marie Shapiro Fund

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18 Colors (Cincinnati) https://www.wikiart.org/en/ellsworth-kelly/18-colors-cincinnati-1982

18 Colors (Cincinnati)

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Square Form http://www.moma.org/collection/works/109739

Gift of the artist and purchased with funds provided by Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hedges, IV, Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr. and Committee on Drawings Funds

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Catalpa Leaf (Feuille) from Suite of Plant Lithographs http://www.moma.org/collection/works/77271

Given anonymously

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Red-Orange Panel with Curve http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80300

Gift of the Committee on Painting and Sculpture in honor of Richard E. Oldenburg

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Jack Gray http://www.moma.org/collection/works/60898

Given anonymously

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Three Panels. Orange, Dark Gray, Green https://www.wikiart.org/en/ellsworth-kelly/three-panels-orange-dark-gray-green-1986-1

Three Panels. Orange, Dark Gray, Green