Ellsworth Kelly

1923–2015

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘Nine Squares’ 1976–7
Nine Squares 1976–7
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Artist and Society: A view from São Paulo: Abstraction and Society

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In the Studio: Ellsworth Kelly and Anish Kapoor

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Biography

Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York.

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  • Photograph of a camouflage lesson featured in Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles’s The Ghost Army of World War II 2015

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    Hidden Meanings: Ellsworth Kelly

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    AUDINT member Toby Heys explores the background of Ellsworth Kelly’s minimal paintings – and the source of their coded messages

  • Ellsworth Kelly, ‘White Curve’ 1974

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  • Ellsworth Kelly Spectrum I 1953

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    Sixty years at full intensity: Colour Chart I

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    Tate Liverpool’s exhibition Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today explores the moment in twentieth-century art when a group of ...

  • Francois Morellet and Ellsworth Kelly in New York 1968 two men speaking in the street

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    65, 38, 21, 4, 72...: Colour Chart III

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    How Random Distribution of 40,000 Squares using the odd and even numbers of a Telephone Directory 1960 came into being

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  • Patricia van Lubeck Opel Kadett painted in dazzle design 1990

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    Art, culture and camouflage

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    In 1896 the American artist Abbott H. Thayer published an article on how animals protected themselves with the use of ...

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