Ellsworth Kelly

1923–2015

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘Yellow Curve’ 1996 — Yellow Curve 1996
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In Tate Modern

Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art

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In the Studio: Ellsworth Kelly and Anish Kapoor

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In Tate Liverpool

Constellations: Reconfiguring American Abstraction

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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

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘Yellow Curve’ 1996

Ellsworth Kelly Yellow Curve

1996

T07403

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘Yellow over Dark Blue’ 1964–5

Ellsworth Kelly Yellow over Dark Blue

1964–5

View by appointment P11222

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘Méditerranée’ 1952

Ellsworth Kelly Méditerranée

1952

L02465

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘Red/Blue (Untitled)’ 1964

Ellsworth Kelly Red/Blue (Untitled)

1964

View by appointment P77807

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘White Curve’ 1974

Ellsworth Kelly White Curve

1974

On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio T03072

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘Black Square with Blue’ 1970

Ellsworth Kelly Black Square with Blue

1970

T07106

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘Saint Martin Landscape’ 1979

Ellsworth Kelly Saint Martin Landscape

1979

On display at Tate Liverpool part of Constellations P12117

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘Orange Relief with Green’ 1991

Ellsworth Kelly Orange Relief with Green

1991

T07478

Film and audio

TateShots

Alex James on Ellsworth Kelly

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

Features

Ellsworth Kelly, ‘White Curve’ 1974

Art Term

Format

Format is traditionally used to describe the shape or proportions of the support, for example the canvas, of a painting ...

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

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

Ellsworth Kelly Spectrum I 1953

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Sixty years at full intensity: Colour Chart I

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

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

Tate Etc. issue 16 magazine cover

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Tate Etc. issue 16: Summer 2009

Tate Etc. Issue 16 Summer 2009; online version of Tate's magazine

Patricia van Lubeck Opel Kadett painted in dazzle design 1990

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Art, culture and camouflage

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

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