The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Catalpa
1991
(American, 1923–2015)
Sheet: 45.7 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Kelly characterized his plant drawings as “an impersonal observation of form.”Description
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.”- {{cite web|title=Catalpa|url=false|author=Ellsworth Kelly|year=1991|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.55