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Jun 1, 2023
Jun 1, 2023
Lily
Lily
1984
Ellsworth Kelly
(American, 1923–2015)
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
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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.”
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