Museum of Modern Art is presenting paintings and drawings by Ellsworth Kelly on view through January 7, 2008.
This single-gallery installation will be devoted to thirteen paintings and drawings by Ellsworth Kelly. Three of the paintings will be on view for the first time and are recent acquisitions: Relief with Blue (1950), a gift from Donald L. Bryant, Jr., a Museum Trustee; Dominican (1952), a gift from the artist; and Two Whites (1959), a gift from James and Kathy Goodman.
In addition to these pivotal works from the 1950s, the gallery will feature a major work from the 1980s, Three Panels: Orange, Dark Gray, Green (1986). Composed of three shaped canvases, it spans thirty-four feet of the gallery wall.
Over the past five decades, Kelly has redefined abstraction by examining the shapes and colors found in natural and man-made forms, producing a visually and philosophically sophisticated body of work. -- www.moma.org
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