Ellsworth Kelly

1923–2015

In Tate Modern

Artist and Society: A view from São Paulo: Abstraction and Society

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In Tate Modern

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In Tate Modern

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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Artworks

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Ellsworth Kelly White Curve

1974

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Ellsworth Kelly Gironde

1951

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Ellsworth Kelly Yellow Curve

1996
Ellsworth Kelly Méditerranée

1952
Ellsworth Kelly Yellow over Dark Blue

1964–5

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Ellsworth Kelly Black Square with Blue

1970
Ellsworth Kelly Nine Squares

1976–7
Ellsworth Kelly Orange Relief with Green

1991

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Film and audio

Alex James on Ellsworth Kelly

'There’s something incredibly calming about simple geometric shapes'

Features

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Tate Etc

Hidden Meanings: Ellsworth Kelly

Toby Heys

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

E.J. Power: A Pioneering Collector of American Art

Jennifer Mundy

E.J. (or Ted) Power was the first, and for a period, the only substantial collector of contemporary art in Britain. …
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Format

Format is traditionally used to describe the shape or proportions of the support, for example the canvas, of a painting …
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Sixty years at full intensity: Colour Chart I

Christoph Grunenberg

Tate Liverpool’s exhibition Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today explores the moment in twentieth-century art when a group of …
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65, 38, 21, 4, 72...: Colour Chart III

François Morellet

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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Tate Etc. issue 16: Summer 2009

Tate Etc. Issue 16 Summer 2009; online version of Tate's magazine
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Art, culture and camouflage

Roy R. Behrens

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