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Ellsworth Kelly

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The Unexpected Humor of Ellsworth Kelly

by Stephen Maine November 3, 2021November 3, 2021

Kelly’s collaged postcards provide an awareness of both his sense of humor and his sense of place.

Posted inArt

The Colors of the Sixties

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli April 6, 2019December 27, 2019

Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.

Posted inBooks

How Painting Survives in the Digital Era

by Joseph Nechvatal March 18, 2019

In her new book, The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium, critic Isabelle Graw ruminates on how painting remains omnipresent within the contemporary capitalist system and digital economy.

Posted inIn Brief

US Postal Service Releases Vibrant Ellsworth Kelly Stamp Collection

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne February 26, 2019May 14, 2019

The stamps feature tiny reproductions of ten paintings by Kelly, one of America’s great 20th-century abstractionists.

Posted inArt

The Met’s Wrong Turn on Revisionism

by David Carrier January 12, 2019January 10, 2019

When an exhibition is as puzzling as this one, it’s useful to step aside and reflect.

Posted inArt

How Ellsworth Kelly’s Language of Abstraction Grew on Him

by Nika Chilewich October 2, 2018October 1, 2018

Kelly’s early sketches of the natural world would define his work across mediums and throughout his career.

Posted inSponsored

Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly, On View at the Norton Simon Museum

by Norton Simon Museum June 5, 2018June 8, 2018

Ellsworth Kelly’s striking work in lithography from the mid-1960s is presented along with two monumental paintings from the Museum’s collection. Through October 29, 2018.

Posted inOpinion

Ellsworth Kelly Explains His Relationship to Abstraction

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino September 2, 2016

“I’ve always lived in the present tense, and I like my paintings to be in the present tense,” Ellsworth Kelly begins his interview with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 2013.

Posted inArt

The Natural Geometries of Ellsworth Kelly’s Photographs

Avatar photo by Zachary Small April 12, 2016April 14, 2016

Any exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly’s art is a bittersweet event following the artist’s recent death, a postmortem reflection on a masterful legacy.

Posted inBooks

“Exactly as It Was”: Ellsworth Kelly’s Basic Training

Avatar photo by Tim Keane January 30, 2016February 11, 2016

When art world luminary, Ellsworth Kelly, died in December at the age of 92, his obituaries described him as an artist who rejected the very idea of art as self-expression.

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Ellsworth Kelly, Who Relentlessly Pushed the Boundaries of Abstraction, Dead at 92

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton December 28, 2015December 31, 2015

Ellsworth Kelly, one of the most strident pioneers of abstraction and minimalism in the United States from the 1950s onward, has died at age 92.

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Revisiting Postwar American Art in Paris

by Joseph Nechvatal June 4, 2015June 4, 2015

PARIS — During springtime in Paris, one frequently meets beaming American newlyweds on their honeymoon.

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