Ellsworth Kelly
Sunflower
1957
An official Louisiana exhibition poster kept in circulation by the museum's own shop.
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Ellsworth Kelly
1923–2015 · American · Based in New York & Spencertown, New York, USA; Paris, France
- École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1948–1950)
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1946–1948)
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Hard-Edge Abstraction
- Color Field
- Printmaking
Ellsworth Kelly developed a radically simplified language of shape and color after years in postwar Paris. He often derived forms from observed fragments—windows, shadows, plants or architecture—then detached them from their sources.
Painting; sculpture; drawing; printmaking
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On Ellsworth Kelly Yve Alain Bois and Scott Rothkopf
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Major Works
- Colors for a Large Wall
- Window, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
- Red Blue Green
- Blue Green Red
- Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance
- Orange Red Relief
- Chatham series
- Curve XXI
- Austin
- Green White
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