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Home. © ELLSWORTH KELLY FOUNDATION. American painter, sculptor, and printmaker.
He is one of the most important postwar American artists, and his works are in museums around the world. Kelly’s husband of more than 30 years, photographer Jack Shear, carries on the artist’s legacy as the director of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. Ultimately, his art achieves one of Kelly’s greatest wishes—to make people happy.
Mar 19, 2024 · Ellsworth Kelly (born May 31, 1923, Newburgh, New York, U.S.—died December 27, 2015, Spencertown, New York) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was a leading exponent of the hard-edge style, in which abstract contours are sharply and precisely defined.
2 days ago · There is a good reason for the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris to put on an Ellsworth Kelly exhibition. In 2014, the last site-specific commission to be completed in his lifetime was inaugurated ...
Dec 27, 2015 · Ellsworth Kelly. American Painter and Sculptor. Born: May 31, 1923 - Newburgh, New York. Died: December 27, 2015 - Spencertown, New York. Movements and Styles: Minimalism. , Hard-edge Painting. , Post-Painterly Abstraction.
Ellsworth Kelly is regarded as one of the most important abstract painters, sculptors and printmakers of his time. Spanning seven decades, his career was marked by the independent route he took from any formal school or art movement and by his innovative contribution to twentieth-century painting and sculpture.
Considered a pioneer of hard-edge painting, Ellsworth Kelly is best known for his crisp nonrepresentational works, intensely colored and radically simplified. His early training in the applied art program at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, was interrupted by his induction into the army in 1943.
