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Lily

1984
(American, 1923–2015)
America
graphite on paper
Sheet: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
In honor of the Ellsworth Kelly Centennial, Gift of Jack Shear 2023.54
Location: not on view
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Kelly characterized his plant drawings as “an impersonal observation of form.”

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Ellsworth Kelly began to make plant drawings during in the late 1940s, returning to them consistently until his death in 2015. Though better-known for his abstract paintings and prints, the plant drawings consistently informed his abstraction. Kelly has described them as a “bridge to a way of seeing that was the basis of the very first abstract paintings.”
Lily

Lily

1984

Ellsworth Kelly

(American, 1923–2015)
America

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