American artist Ellsworth Kelly would have turned 100 this month (May 2023). His recipe of hard-edge abstraction, colour field painting and minimalism saw him become one the most definitive painters ...

Jack Shear, the widower of the artist Ellsworth Kelly, is donating many of his husband’s works to museums across the country and giving money to various causes. By Ted Loos This article is part ...

Performing below their low estimates, the auction houses bet on a “flight to quality” but found little interest from bidders on top lots. After two nights of decent, not disastrous auctions, ...

With the 100th anniversary of the birth of hard-edged abstract painter Ellsworth Kelly fast approaching (31 May), the artist’s foundation has bestowed early birthday gifts on dozens of museums ...

Ellsworth Kelly Foundation 2011: Kelly in his studio in Spencertown, New York. Two years later, he received the National Medal of Arts from president Barack Obama. The artist died at his home ...

Ellsworth Kelly was an eminent American artist known for his abstract paintings. His use of bright colors, and simple shapes, contributed to the discourse of 20th-century painting. “I have worked to ...

The present work, Red-Orange Yellow Blue, was created in one of the artist's most desirable eras, the early 1970s. Kelly initiated a style of large, simple shapes in the 1950s, formed of hard edges ...

The building on the University of Texas campus is the only one ever designed by the celebrated artist Ellsworth Kelly, attracting nearly 69,000 visitors through its doors last year alone.

director of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. For gallerist Dominique Lévy, inspiration sprang from a serendipitous encounter three years ago at a Calder show staged by the Pulitzer Art Foundation in St ...

Ellsworth Kelly was in his early thirties and a minor ... Kelly despised it, and it’s not hard to imagine Indiana burrowing deeper into word art as a way of twisting the knife.