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Ellsworth Kelly

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


Ellsworth Kelly was born in Newburgh, New York in 1923. His first one-person exhibition was held in 1951 in Paris, where he was studying on the G.I. Bill following World War II. Kelly returned to the United States in 1954, renting a studio in downtown New York, and his position among America's most esteemed painters began to take form. Since that time, the artist's work has been the subject of numerous major retrospectives worldwide and is presently included in all of the most important public collections of contemporary art. Kelly currently lives and works in upstate New York.

 

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Shape, Ground, Shadow: The Photographs of Ellsworth Kelly

DELMONICO BOOKS/SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Edited with essay by Charles Wylie. Foreword by Larry Feinberg. Artist interview excerpt by Charles Hagen.

A landmark publication featuring 60 career-spanning photographs by Ellsworth Kelly, one of the most revered artists of the past 100 years

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Ellsworth Kelly

GLENSTONE MUSEUM
Foreword by Emily Wei Rales, et al. Text by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Alex Da Corte, Suzanne Hudson, Corey Keller, Peter Eleey, Sarah Rogers.

A spectacular survey of Kelly’s seven-decade exploration of abstraction

Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 314 pgs / 115 color. | 2/27/2024 | In stock
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Ellsworth Kelly: Colors for a Large Wall

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
By Jodi Hauptman.

Jodi Hauptman examines the procedures and context behind Kelly's formative 1951 abstraction

Pbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color. | 12/26/2023 | In stock
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Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards

DELMONICO BOOKS/TANG
Edited by Ian Berry, Jessica Eisenthal. Foreword by Ian Berry. Text by Jessica Eisenthal, Ellsworth Kelly, Lynda Klich, Tricia Y. Paik.

A comprehensive survey of rarely seen collages from the master of abstraction

Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 230 color. | 3/15/2022 | In stock
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Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture Volume 2

CAHIERS D'ART

The second volume of a comprehensive account of the work of Ellsworth Kelly, encompassing his early years in New York

Hbk, 11.75 x 11.25 in. / 386 pgs / 570 color / 65 bw. | 10/26/2021 | In stock
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Ellsworth Kelly: Windows

CAHIERS D'ART/CENTRE POMPIDOU
Edited by Jean-Pierre Criqui. Foreword by Serge Lasvignes, Bernard Blistčne. Text by Staffan Ahrenberg, Yve-Alain Bois, Jean-Pierre Criqui.

The window as motif in the drawings and paintings of Ellsworth Kelly

Pbk, 11.25 x 9.5 in. / 152 pgs / 85 color. | 4/14/2020 | In stock
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Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall

MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
Text by Christine Mehring.

Clth, 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 88 pgs / 52 color / 12 bw. | 4/23/2019 | Out of stock
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Ellsworth Kelly: Austin

RADIUS BOOKS
Text by Carter E. Foster.

The only building the artist designed, Austin is Kelly’s most enduring legacy

Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 148 pgs / 90 color. | 2/25/2020 | Out of stock
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Cahiers d'Art: Ellsworth Kelly

CAHIERS D'ART
Edited by Staffan Ahrenberg, Sam Keller, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Yve-Alain Bois, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tadao Ando, Jean-Louis Cohen, et al.

Pbk, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 136 pgs / 96 color. | 10/23/2012 | In stock
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Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture Volume 1

CAHIERS D'ART
Edited by Yve-Alain Bois, Anya Bondell. Foreword by Jack Shear.

Hbk, 11.25 x 12 in. / 383 pgs / 450 color. | 10/20/2015 | In stock
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Ellsworth Kelly: Outside In

MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
Text by Briony Fer.

Hbk, 9.75 x 12.75 in. / 56 pgs / 30 color / 3 bw. | 8/25/2015 | Not available
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Ellsworth Kelly: Los Angeles

MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
Text by Michael Duncan.

Hbk, 11.5 x 12.25 in. / 40 pgs / 17 color. | 11/30/2012 | Not available
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Ellsworth Kelly: Thumbing through the Folder

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN/D.A.P.

Hbk, 7.25 x 10 in., 80 pgs / 58 color. | 2/28/2010 | Not available
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Ellsworth Kelly: Diagonal

MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
Text by Johanna Burton.

Clth, 10.75 x 13 in. / 56 pgs / 27 color. | 9/30/2009 | Not available
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Ellsworth Kelly: Tablet 1948-1973

THE DRAWING CENTER
Edited by Catherine de Zegher. Introduction by Yve-Alain Bois and Yves Aupetitallot.

Hardcover, 13 x 9.75 in. / 208 pgs / 188 color | 6/15/2004 | Not available
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Ellsworth Kelly: Self Portrait Drawings 1944-1992

MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
Essay by Harry Cooper.

Hardback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 53 color reproductions. | 9/2/2003 | Not available
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Ellsworth Kelly: In-Between Spaces, Works 1956-2002

HATJE CANTZ
Artwork by Ellsworth Kelly. Contributions by Gottfried Boehm. Text by Viola Weigel.

Hardcover, 11 x 12.5 in. / 168 pgs / 70 color | 2/2/2003 | Not available
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Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SAN DIEGO
Artwork by Ellsworth Kelly. Edited by Julie Dunn. Text by Roberta Bernstein, Sarah Rich, Hugh Davies, Toby Kamps.

Hardcover, 10 x 12 in. / 128 pgs / 82 color / 6 bw. | 2/2/2003 | Not available
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Shape, Ground, Shadow: The Photographs of Ellsworth KellyShape, Ground, Shadow: The Photographs of Ellsworth Kelly

Published by DelMonico Books/Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Edited with essay by Charles Wylie. Foreword by Larry Feinberg. Artist interview excerpt by Charles Hagen.

Marking the first museum exhibition devoted solely to the photographs of Ellsworth Kelly, this beautifully designed volume features each photograph in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s illuminating presentation of this lesser-known aspect of Kelly’s art. From the late 1940s on, Kelly created an era-defining body of abstract art based on many kinds of visual phenomena he perceived around him. Largely made for himself, Kelly’s photographs record these discoveries in tightly-composed images of nature and architecture that often reverberate with striking sunlight and shadow.
Similar as they may appear, Kelly did not base his paintings, sculpture and works on paper on his photographs. The camera for Kelly was yet one more artistic tool he used to brilliantly transcribe his lived surroundings into an art that, however abstract, always resonated with his subjective experiences of actual, everyday worlds.
Kelly’s rich sensory fascination with such worlds, from shadows on a beachside staircase to the curve of a snowy hillside, courses throughout this handsome book. To those familiar with or new to the artist, these photographs offer a vividly direct chance to see Ellsworth Kelly’s eye and mind at work unlike any other genre in which this groundbreaking artist ever worked.
Born in Newburgh, New York, Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) served in France in World War II’s Ghost Army, graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and returned to France from 1948–54. Over the next seven decades, back in New York City and then upstate, Kelly produced an uncompromising body of art that set new standards for the possibilities of abstract art in the 20th century. His work has been the subject of numerous retrospectives the world over and is represented in virtually every major national and international museum.



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Ellsworth KellyEllsworth Kelly

Published by Glenstone Museum.
Foreword by Emily Wei Rales, et al. Text by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Alex Da Corte, Suzanne Hudson, Corey Keller, Peter Eleey, Sarah Rogers.

Accompanying the large-scale traveling exhibition Ellsworth Kelly at 100, this volume celebrates the groundbreaking career of the beloved American abstractionist. This publication highlights key aspects of his multifaceted art—from his lifelong drawing practice through his later explorations of layered canvas panels. Kelly frequently revisited shapes and motifs observed throughout his career, exploring form, color, line and space through painting, sculpture, collage, drawing and photography. The fully illustrated publication highlights works from major public and private collections alongside key works from Glenstone's collection, including seminal early pieces such as Painting for a White Wall (1952) and Painting in Three Panels (1956), as well as examples from the iconic Chatham and Spectrum series. Also featured is Yellow Curve (1990), a monumental floor painting installation that spans nearly 1,000 square feet, on view for the first time in more than 30 years since it was conceived for an exhibition at Portikus am Main in Frankfurt. Essays by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Alex Da Corte, Suzanne Hudson, Corey Keller and others explore and expand upon Kelly’s canon. With three gatefolds and a tip-on cover image, the book also includes unpublished archival materials from the artist’s studio and the Glenstone archives.
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was born in Newburgh, New York. His first exhibition was held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1956; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized his first retrospective in 1973. Subsequent exhibitions have been held at museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tate in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.



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Ellsworth Kelly: Colors for a Large WallEllsworth Kelly: Colors for a Large Wall

MoMA One on One Series

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
By Jodi Hauptman.

Ellsworth Kelly’s landmark 1951 work Colors for a Large Wall is the culmination of an extraordinarily productive moment in the artist’s early career, a time when he developed his singular form of abstraction. After serving in the US Army during World War II, he returned to France in 1948 and lived and worked there until 1954. Connecting with artists of an earlier generation, discovering Paris with his peers, and surveying monuments of the past, Kelly began an audacious creative journey in which, paradoxically, he sought to eliminate "invention" from the process of making art. In this volume of the MoMA One on One series, curator Jodi Hauptman looks closely at the evolution of Colors for a Large Wall, unpacking Kelly’s toolbox of close observation of the world, chance procedures, collage and the monochrome, and examining his ambition to create art on a public, architectural scale.



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Ellsworth Kelly: PostcardsEllsworth Kelly: Postcards

Published by DelMonico Books/Tang.
Edited by Ian Berry, Jessica Eisenthal. Foreword by Ian Berry. Text by Jessica Eisenthal, Ellsworth Kelly, Lynda Klich, Tricia Y. Paik.

Over the course of more than 50 years, renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly made approximately 400 postcard collages, some of which served as exploratory musings and others as studies for larger works in other mediums. They range from his first monochrome in 1949 through his last postcard collages of crashing ocean waves, in 2005.
Together, these works show an unbounded space of creative freedom and provide an important insight into the way Kelly saw, experienced and translated the world in his art. Many postcards illustrate specific places where he lived or visited, introducing biography and illuminating details that make these pieces unique among his broader artistic production. Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards is the most extensive publication of Kelly’s lifelong practice of collaged postcards.
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was born in Newburgh, New York. In 1948 he moved to France, where he came into contact with a wide range of classical and modern art. He returned to New York in 1954 and two years later had his first exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized his first retrospective in 1973. Subsequent exhibitions have been held at museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tate in London, Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.



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Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture Volume 2Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture Volume 2

1954–1958

Published by Cahiers d'Art.

Authored by Kelly scholar Yve-Alain Bois in direct collaboration with the late artist’s partner and estate, this comprehensive publication contains exhaustive documentation of the work of American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015), including his paintings, sculptures and reliefs.
Picking up where the first volume left off, this publication follows Kelly from his return to New York from France in 1954 through his early years living in the artist community of downtown Coenties Slip, where he shared a studio with friend and fellow abstract painter Agnes Martin. During this formative period spent in New York City, Kelly’s style evolved beyond the foundation of his French Cubist and modernist influences and into a distinctive abstract style which fused large-format painting with a study of shapes and planar masses. By 1958, Kelly’s practice had also expanded to include sculpture, a craft inspired by conversations with his studio-mate Agnes Martin, and which would go on to be a primary medium through which Kelly’s later work is understood. The evolution of Kelly’s style experienced during the years chronicled in this publication provided a much-needed bridge from the abstraction of the 1940s to the minimalism of the 1960s.
The publication includes insightful texts and high-quality images of individual works and preparatory drawings, along with provenance information, exhibition history and bibliographic information, making it an indispensable reference tool for institutions, collectors and admirers.



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Ellsworth Kelly: WindowsEllsworth Kelly: Windows

Published by Cahiers d'Art/Centre Pompidou.
Edited by Jean-Pierre Criqui. Foreword by Serge Lasvignes, Bernard Blistčne. Text by Staffan Ahrenberg, Yve-Alain Bois, Jean-Pierre Criqui.

This monograph was copublished by Cahiers d’Art and Centre Pompidou on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition Ellsworth Kelly: Windows, which brought together, for the first time, the six Windows made by Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) in France between 1949 and 1950. Kelly’s years in France were a period of perpetual invention, and are fundamental to an understanding of his work. As he wrote in 1969, “After constructing Window with two canvases and a wood frame, I realized that ... painting as I had known it was finished for me.” This signal moment is evoked through more than 80 works, paintings, drawings, sketches and photographs, along with two beautiful essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Jean-Pierre Criqui.

Ellsworth Kelly is one of the most important abstract artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as a key figure in the rebirth of Cahiers d’Art: the publishing house was reopened in 2012 with an exhibition of Kelly’s work in its legendary gallery, and, in collaboration with Yve-Alain Bois and the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, it published the first volume of Kelly’s Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture, 1940–1953.



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Ellsworth Kelly: AustinEllsworth Kelly: Austin

Published by RADIUS BOOKS.
Text by Carter E. Foster.

In January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the design concept for his most monumental work. A 2,715-square-foot stone building with luminous colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture and 14 black-and-white marble panels, the work is titled Austin, following the artist’s tradition of naming particular works after the places for which they are destined. The structure is the only building the artist designed, despite Kelly’s lifelong interest in architecture and architectural form dating back to his earliest window studies made while living in Paris in the 1940s. Envisioned by Kelly as a site for joy and contemplation, Austin is a cornerstone of the Blanton’s permanent collection and a new icon for the city in which it stands. This comprehensive volume from Radius Books provides a thorough look at the project, from its first inception to its current position as one of the artist’s most important and enduring works. An incisive essay by Carter E. Foster, deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Blanton Museum of Art, includes archival material, drawings, historic photographs and nearly all related works Kelly created as he developed the building’s design.



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Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large WallEllsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery.
Text by Christine Mehring.

In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most ambitious artworks to date, Color Panels for a Large Wall, an 18-panel painting executed in two versions. The larger, at over 125 feet wide, was the biggest painting he had ever made, and its trajectory would pass through not just Cincinnati but also Amsterdam, New York and Munich before ending up at its permanent home, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where it has been prominently installed in the I.M. Pei–designed East Building since 2004.The smaller version, over 30 feet wide, remained in the artist's possession. This catalog tells the complete story of these two remarkable paintings.



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Ellsworth Kelly: Plant DrawingsEllsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery.
Text by Ellsworth Kelly.

Though best known as a painter of scrupulous hard-edge abstractions, Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) saw drawing plants as playing a central role in his art. “The drawings from plant life seem to be the bridge to the way of seeing that brought about the paintings in 1949,” Kelly wrote in 1969. That way of seeing, he said, was “the basis for all my later work.” The rigorous and exacting observation of the natural world that Kelly used to make his plant drawings—a practice he continued through his whole career—helped him to refine his distinctly direct brand of minimal abstraction.

First published in 2017 and quickly going out of print, Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings features more than 30 drawings made by Kelly between 1949 and 2008. Kelly made these gorgeously economical line drawings from life, sometimes barely lifting the pencil as he translated each plant’s contours to paper. Focusing on direct visual impression—“nothing is changed or added,” as he put it—Kelly used the natural forms of the plants to explore some of his painterly fixations, like the effects of volume, negative space and overlapping planes. Despite the immediacy of their execution and their representational content, the most striking surprise of Kelly’s plant drawings is how much they share with his abstract paintings and sculptures.



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Ellsworth Kelly: Last PaintingsEllsworth Kelly: Last Paintings

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery.
Text by Branden W. Joseph.

These final paintings, made in the months leading up to his death in December 2015, further develop the non-compositional strategies he pioneered in the late 1940s and pursued throughout his life, including monochrome paintings, shaped canvases and joined panels.

The book also includes 16 photographs by Jack Shear of Kelly’s studio as he left it on his final day of painting—a poignant record of his seven-decade advancement of a singular artistic vision.



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Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture Volume 1Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture Volume 1

Published by Cahiers d'Art.
Edited by Yve-Alain Bois, Anya Bondell. Foreword by Jack Shear.

Written by Kelly scholar Yve-Alain Bois in direct collaboration with the artist, this comprehensive multivolume publication contains exhaustive documentation of each of Kelly’s paintings, sculptures, and reliefs.

The catalogue includes thorough and insightful texts, high-quality images of individual works and preparatory drawings, along with provenance information, exhibition history, and bibliographic information, making it sure to be an irreplaceable reference tool for institutions, collectors, and admirers.

This first volume is a stunning beginning to this extensive publication, with the subsequent volumes scheduled for release over the next several years. Encompassing Kelly’s work up to his return to the United States from France in 1954, the present volume covers the artist’s formative years as a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and as a young artist living in Paris, where he began painting the abstract forms which would later define his career.



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Ellsworth Kelly: Outside InEllsworth Kelly: Outside In

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery.
Text by Briony Fer.

For almost seven decades, Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923) has redefined abstraction in art. His work has become iconic for its emphasis on form, color and relief, yet he harnesses these basic elements, in all their apparent simplicity, to deliver an astonishing array of effects.
Ellsworth Kelly: Outside In is, likewise, more than the sum of its parts. With an oversize format and generous images, the book introduces the artist's latest body of work in stunning color. Its introductory essay, by art historian Briony Fer, provides insight into Kelly's perpetual movement between inside and outside, past and present, two dimensions and three.

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Ellsworth Kelly: The Chatham SeriesEllsworth Kelly: The Chatham Series

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Text by Ann Temkin.

In celebration of Ellsworth Kelly’s ninetieth birthday in May 2013, The Museum of Modern Art will present the first exhibition in 40 years of all fourteen paintings that comprise the Chatham series of works the artist produced after leaving New York City for Spencetown, in upstate New York, in 1970. The series has not been exhibited in its entirety since it was presented at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, in 1972. The Chatham Series, published in conjunction with the exhibition, is a richly illustrated exploration of this key moment in Kelly’s career. The 14 large-scale paintings he produced there all rely on a single formal concept—each is made of two joined canvases of pure monochrome color—yet the works vary in color and proportion from one to the next. An essay by Ann Temkin traces the artist’s explorations of shape, color and spatiality from the early 1950 to today.

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Cahiers d'Art: Ellsworth KellyCahiers d'Art: Ellsworth Kelly

36th Year

Published by Cahiers d'Art.
Edited by Staffan Ahrenberg, Sam Keller, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Yve-Alain Bois, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tadao Ando, Jean-Louis Cohen, et al.

The Revue Cahiers d’Art was relaunched with this first issue in 2012 dedicated to Ellsworth Kelly. It contains an original lithograph by Kelly, and presents the work of several other artists: Sarah Morris, Cyprien Gaillard and Adrian Villar Rojas. It contains several texts, in particular those of the art historian Yve-Alain Bois, the architect Tadao Ando and Jean-Louis Cohen, historian of architecture and town planning.



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Ellsworth Kelly: Black & WhiteEllsworth Kelly: Black & White

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Ulrich Wilmes.

The paintings of Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923) are famous for their hard edges, minimalist abstraction and above all, their bright, vibrant colors. Less known are the black-and-white drawings, collages and paintings that preceded or accompanied many of them, despite the fact that they make up roughly 20 percent of his total output. Ellsworth Kelly: Black & White and the exhibition it accompanies bring together the artist’s color-free work for the first time, and offer a fresh take on his long career, emphasizing his use of shape, contrast, texture and his incorporation of such everyday objects as a broken windowpane, a handrail shadow or the leaf of a plant into his abstraction. This catalogue makes clear that the scale of contrast between black and white was key to Kelly’s artistic self-discovery and subsequent development, and is crucial to any proper understanding of his oeuvre.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 200 pgs / 127 color.

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Ellsworth Kelly: Los AngelesEllsworth Kelly: Los Angeles

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery.
Text by Michael Duncan.

Los Angeles documents six new two-panel paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, each made from a single shaped canvas featuring a dramatic curve carefully painted with many coats of a bright color (blue, green, yellow, orange). These curved panels are attached to a rectangular canvas painted in a contrasting color. Also reproduced here are a group of 1952–54 collages that Kelly made in Paris as a young man, including “Study for Black and White Panels,” as well as the 1966 painting “Black over White.” All of these works provide the inspiration for Kelly’s monumental sculpture installed on the façade of the Matthew Marks Gallery. Among his largest works, Kelly’s new Los Angeles sculpture is the first to incorporate a building’s architecture into his own work: in one succinct gesture, the gallery’s entire façade has become part of his sculpture.

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Matthew Marks Gallery

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Hardcover, 11.5 x 12.25 in. / 40 pgs / 17 color.

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Ellsworth Kelly: Wood SculptureEllsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Text by Brenda Richardson.

Ellsworth Kelly describes the 30 wood sculptures he created over the span of four decades between 1958 and 1996 as his “totems.” This body of work, although only a small proportion of the artist's lifetime sculpture and far less known than his work in metal, has a talismanic intimacy for Kelly that distinguishes it from the rest of his hard-edged oeuvre. Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture presents a retrospective of these wood sculptures for the first time, offering an investigation into the development of this intensely personal expression of Kelly's commitment to abstract art--and to nature. Many of these wood sculptures, now in private collections, are rarely seen and hardly known by the public. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2011, this book speaks to the artist's lifetime of acute visual observation and how deeply “of nature” his work has always been.

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Clth, 9 x 11 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Ellsworth Kelly: Reliefs 2009-2010Ellsworth Kelly: Reliefs 2009-2010

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery.
Text by Robert Storr.

This monograph presents 13 paintings and one sculpture that demonstrate a new refinement in Ellsworth Kelly's work. In each of the paintings a rectangular canvas is painted with numerous layers of white paint, on top of which the artist affixes a (usually) black canvas. With their sharp diagonals and dramatic curves, these reliefs are among the most dynamic of Kelly's career.

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Matthew Marks Gallery

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Clth, 10 x 13.25 in. / 48 pgs / 24 color / 2 bw.

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Ellsworth Kelly: Thumbing through the FolderEllsworth Kelly: Thumbing through the Folder

A Dialogue on Art and Architecture with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Published by Walther König, Köln/D.A.P..

In this Dialogue on Art and Architecture, Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923) reminisces with Hans Ulrich Obrist about his early career, his teachers (Max Beckmann, Brancusi, Léger and Vantongerloo) and particularly on the relation of his work to architecture: “architects are usually the first people who understand my work,” he tells Obrist here, while describing his many collaborations in this field. Throughout this beautiful publication runs a series of collaged and overpainted postcards by Kelly, dating from 1949 to 1984, which are reproduced here for the first time. These postcards, referred to throughout the dialogue, are unlike any of Kelly's paintings and sculptures, particularly in their use of body imagery; others are closer to familiar Kelly terrain, as projections of torn colored paper forms onto found landscapes and architecture. This artist's book makes a wonderfully unusual record of a warm encounter.

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Walther König, Köln/D.A.P.

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Hardcover, 7.25 x 10 in., 80 pgs / 58 color.

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Ellsworth Kelly: DiagonalEllsworth Kelly: Diagonal

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery.
Text by Johanna Burton.

As spacious and sleek as the work itself, this monograph reproduces two sculptures from 2004 and 2005, along with 17 new paintings dating from 2007 and 2008, eight of which consist of a black or white rectangle with a contrasting black, white or colored rectangle placed diagonally on top and extending beyond the boundary of the canvas below. In the catalogue, Johanna Burton writes, "What Kelly is producing does not end at the edge... a shadow is thrown, but rather than demarcating the shape and space of the work more clearly, it works to utterly confuse what is being looked at: these are paintings that, in places, don't end or, perhaps, refuse to show how they begin. Rather than a perceptual fluke or an experiment in phenomenology, however, this is, I think, a part of the painting." The book accompanies the exhibition held at the Matthew Marks Gallery in the Spring of 2009. All plates are full color.

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Matthew Marks Gallery

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Clth, 10.75 x 13 in. / 56 pgs / 27 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 98   

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Ellsworth Kelly: Tablet 1948-1973

Published by The Drawing Center.
Edited by Catherine de Zegher. Introduction by Yve-Alain Bois and Yves Aupetitallot.

The art world has a longstanding respect for and fascination with artists' sketchbooks. It is within those pages that we get true insight into process--the labor and intensity that constitute a work of art. In the 1960s, this interest in exploration flourished and established drawing as an art form in and of itself. This exhibition catalogue for Kelly's recent show of drawings contains selections from over 20 years of the artist's notebooks including sketches made on magazine advertisements, newspaper clippings, maps, Sno-Cone wrappers, and telegrams. Tablet reveals an artist usually associated with monochromatic forms to be vitally, and sometimes even hilariously, engaged in the everyday world.

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The Drawing Center

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Hardcover, 13 x 9.75 in. / 208 pgs / 188 color

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Ellsworth Kelly: Self Portrait Drawings 1944-1992Ellsworth Kelly: Self Portrait Drawings 1944-1992

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery.
Essay by Harry Cooper.

Think of an Ellsworth Kelly: an abstract consideration of the relationship between figure and ground; a conscious questioning of the conditions that underlie perception; an exploration of the relationship of painting and wall, sculpture and space, viewer and work. Now think of Ellsworth Kelly: a man, born in the 1920s in New York state, who has been recording his own appearance in ink and graphite over the years, capturing himself as his attitudes changed, his self-perception changed, his face and body aged. Collected here are five decades of Kelly's self-portraits, drawn between 1944 and 1992. The artist sketches himself in all variety of poses: bust, standing, sitting, clothed, nude, laughing, serious, self-possessed. The style of drawing changes as frequently, from line drawing to cubist to comic to naturalistic. Taken together, they present a marvelous portrait of the artist as a man.

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Matthew Marks Gallery

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Hardback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 53 color reproductions.

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Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green BlueEllsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue

Paintings and Studies, 1958-1965

Published by Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
Artwork by Ellsworth Kelly. Edited by Julie Dunn. Text by Roberta Bernstein, Sarah Rich, Hugh Davies, Toby Kamps.

Red Green Blue is almost the title of a 1963 painting by Ellsworth Kelly. Red Blue Green, a monumental rectangular oil work, considered a crucial fulcrum point in the artist's career, represents Kelly's concerns about the tension between the figure and the ground, offering two precisely shaped and balanced red and blue forms set against a strongly contrasting green ground. Working within a strict set of limits, he created a string of similarly grand, powerful works and defined many of the ideas about line, form and color that still drive his work today. These works, made from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, established the artist's singular style and his reputation as one of the most innovative abstract painters of the latter half of the twentieth century, one who boldly broke with the strictures of the Abstract Expressionist movement, which dominated painting in the United States in the 1950s. Exploring the complex interplay of invented and real-world inspirations that led to this body of figure/ground paintings, this volume presents a selection of 21 major paintings and 36 related drawings, collages, and photographs from that time period, as well as a new painting from 2002 that reexamines related concerns.

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Ellsworth Kelly: In-Between Spaces, Works 1956-2002Ellsworth Kelly: In-Between Spaces, Works 1956-2002

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Artwork by Ellsworth Kelly. Contributions by Gottfried Boehm. Text by Viola Weigel.

Ellsworth Kelly's oeuvre can perhaps best be summed up by a phrase from Gottfried Boehm: "In between: this is the shortest formula of his aesthetics." With abstract expressionism at its peak, and based on the traditions of the abstract avant-garde in dialogue with color field painting, Kelly developed a vocabulary that left panel painting behind. In a conscious questioning of the conditions that underlie perception, he not only explores the relationships of painting and wall, sculpture and space, but also, and in particular, the relationship between viewer and work. A selection of more than 40 pieces of art from the past five decades, most of them from the collection of the artist, this book offers an expert investigation into the artistic development of one of the leading exponents of international postwar art.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 11 x 12.5 in. / 168 pgs / 70 color

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Ellsworth Kelly: ArtstudioEllsworth Kelly: Artstudio

Published by Anthony d'Offay.
Artwork by Ellsworth Kelly. Contributions by Paul Taylor.



PUBLISHER
Anthony d'Offay

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Paperback, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 186 pgs / 56 color / 64 bw

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