Ellsworth Kelly
b. 1921 (Newburgh, New York) - d. 2015 (Spencertown, New York)
Over the course of a seven-decade career, Ellsworth Kelly pioneered a particular style of geometric abstraction through his paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and photographs. Beginning with his first retrospective in 1973 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and continuing until his death in 2015, Kelly exhibited in a prolific number of solo, retrospective, and group exhibitions throughout his life and significantly influenced subsequent generations of artists. Kelly’s monumental permanent installation, Austin, 2015, a stone building with colored glass windows, a sculpture, and a series of panels, opened in 2018 at the Blanton Museum at the University of Texas at Austin.
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