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Hardcover, 10 x 12 in. / 148 pgs / 90 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 111   

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ISBN 9781942185567 TRADE
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Ellsworth Kelly: Austin

Text by Carter E. Foster.

Ellsworth Kelly: Austin

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

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.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Ellsworth Kelly: Austin.'

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John Hill

In addition to the binding, it's worth pointing out that the book is big, allowing the reader to practically immerse themselves in the color-drenched spaces [...] It's a beautiful document of an amazing building where art is both container and contained.

Ellsworth Kelly: Austin

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/20/2020

Behold Ellsworth Kelly's final masterpiece, 'Austin'

Behold Ellsworth Kelly's final masterpiece, 'Austin'

In February 2018, the Blanton Museum of Art opened Ellsworth Kelly's masterpiece—a 2,715 square-foot limestone "secular chapel" with 26-foot double-barrel-vaulted ceilings, granite floors, and stained-glass windows, designed to house a series of abstract paintings on marble and a soaring California redwood "Totem" sculpture—to the public. It was a project that the artist, who died in 2015 at the age of 92, had envisioned in 1986, and had overseen in every detail until his death, two months before construction began. Now, Radius Books has released a superb new monograph on the project, featuring double Swiss binding, several deluxe papers, a wealth or archival materials, new installation photography and texts by the Blanton's Simone J. Wicha and Carter E. Foster. "I hope visitors will experience 'Austin' as a place of calm and light," Kelley said. "Go there and rest your eyes, rest your mind." continue to blog


ELLSWORTH KELLY MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards

ELLSWORTH KELLY: POSTCARDS

DELMONICO BOOKS/TANG

ISBN: 9781636810096
USD $70.00
| CAN $98 UK £ 47.5

Pub Date: 3/15/2022
Active | Out of stock


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

ELLSWORTH KELLY: CATALOGUE RAISONNé OF PAINTINGS, RELIEFS, AND SCULPTURE VOLUME 2

CAHIERS D'ART

ISBN: 9782851173195
USD $395.00
| CAN $539

Pub Date: 10/26/2021
Active | In stock


Ellsworth Kelly: Windows

ELLSWORTH KELLY: WINDOWS

CAHIERS D'ART/CENTRE POMPIDOU

ISBN: 9782851173058
USD $45.00
| CAN $63

Pub Date: 4/14/2020
Active | In stock


Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall

ELLSWORTH KELLY: COLOR PANELS FOR A LARGE WALL

MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY

ISBN: 9781944929145
USD $45.00
| CAN $62 UK £ 40

Pub Date: 4/23/2019
Active | Out of stock


Ellsworth Kelly: Austin

ELLSWORTH KELLY: AUSTIN

RADIUS BOOKS

ISBN: 9781942185567
USD $50.00
| CAN $69.95 UK £ 45

Pub Date: 2/25/2020
Active | Out of stock


Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture

ELLSWORTH KELLY: WOOD SCULPTURE

MFA PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

ISBN: 9780878467662
USD $45.00
| CAN $60 UK £ 40

Pub Date: 10/31/2011
Active | Out of stock


Ellsworth Kelly: Reliefs 2009-2010

ELLSWORTH KELLY: RELIEFS 2009-2010

MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY

ISBN: 9781880146569
USD $45.00
| CAN $60 UK £ 40

Pub Date: 10/31/2011
Active | Out of stock


Cahiers d'Art: Ellsworth Kelly

CAHIERS D'ART: ELLSWORTH KELLY

CAHIERS D'ART

ISBN: 9782851171740
USD $100.00
| CAN $139

Pub Date: 10/23/2012
Active | In stock


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

ELLSWORTH KELLY: CATALOGUE RAISONNé OF PAINTINGS, RELIEFS, AND SCULPTURE VOLUME 1

CAHIERS D'ART

ISBN: 9782851171900
USD $395.00
| CAN $560

Pub Date: 10/20/2015
Active | In stock