Ellsworth Kelly, “Study for Blue and White Sculpture for Les Tuileries” (1964), 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (collection of Ellsworth Kelly Studio and Jack Shear, copyright Ellsworth Kelly Foundation) ...

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. Now a new study by scholar ...

SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — Even though abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly’s final home and studio was in Spencertown, N.Y. — a modest distance of some 70 miles as the crow flies from his Newburgh, N.Y., ...

For half a century, the artist Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) has been acclaimed for his clean, clear forms of specific and brilliant color. His precise and confident approach is best known in paintings, ...

At the SOM-designed Lever House in Midtown, several of Kelly’s sculptures are interspersed within the courtyards, lobbies, and public-facing corridors to mark the inaugural exhibition at the ...

Painter, sculptor and printmaker Ellsworth Kelly left his mark not only on the world of modern art, but in a variety of programs that brought cultural offerings to students in upstate New York. Kelly, ...

Ellsworth Kelly at his Spencertown studio in 2011. Jack Shear/Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. The Ellsworth Kelly Foundation is celebrating the centennial of the artist’s birth by donating $2.75 million ...

Arts institutions all over the world have been breaking out their hard-edge abstraction canvases to celebrate the 100th birthday of the late painter Ellsworth Kelly. The Edward Hopper House in Nyack ...

Ellsworth Kelly is an artist that one immediately gets or brazenly shrugs away. Simplistic, but deeply meditative, his oeuvre feels as new today as it did when he first began in 1951. To celebrate 100 ...

Like many of his colleagues in the upper echelons of household-name American abstractionists — in the Abstract Expressionist, Minimalist, and other schools — Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) enjoys ...

SPENCERTOWN — The death of Ellsworth Kelly on Dec. 27 made headlines round the world. But in Columbia County, where the famed abstract artist had lived and worked since 1970, local organizations are ...