Painter, sculptor and printmaker Ellsworth Kelly, who was associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the minimalist school, has died at 92.
Prominent New York artist Ellsworth Kelly in 1996. A major retrospective of his work travelled from the Guggenheim Museum in New York to L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
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President Obama awards Ellsworth Kelly the 2012 National Medal of Arts for his contributions as a painter, sculptor and printmaker.
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Works by U.S. artist Ellsworth Kelly are displayed during the Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Ellsworth Kelly exhibition preview at Villa Medici in 2010 in Rome.
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Ellsworth Kelly at the installation of his sculpture “The Barnes Totem” in the garden of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia in 2012.
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Edythe and Eli Broad with artist Ellsworth Kelly in front of his paintings at the 1994 opening of the Broads’ gallery in Santa Monica.
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