Kelly switched from figurative to abstract art while he was living in Paris in 1949. In the 1950s, he began working in his now familiar style of flatly painted canvases, the antithesis of the general brushwork style that dominated American abstraction at the time. Kelly's paintings are typically very clear and simple in construction, sometimes consisting of a number of individual panels placed together, similar in size but painted a different color. White over Blue is an example of these monumental panel pictures, featuring a solid white, rectangular canvas that is hung just slightly in front of an identically sized blue panel.
Details
- Artist Name: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015)
- Title: White over Blue
- Date: 1967
- Medium: Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions: 114 x 342 x 18 in. (289.6 x 870 x 45.7 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Gift of the Artist
- Accession Number: P.1969.126a,b
- Copyright: © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation
Object Information
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1969-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 1975.
Ellsworth Kelly
- Pasadena, Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1974-01-15 to 1974-03-03
Ellsworth Kelly: At Right Angles, 1964-1966
- Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, 1991-11-18 to 1991-12-01
Ellsworth Kelly
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1996-10 to 1997-01
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1997-02 to 1997-05
Ellsworth Kelly Retrospective
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1974-01-14 to 1974-03-03
- Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1974-03-30 to 1974-05-19
- Detroit Institute of Arts, 1974-06-14 to 1974-08-11
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), 1973-09-10 to 1973-11-04
Expo '67
- Montreal, United States Pavillion, 1967-04-28 to 1967-10-27
Line and Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly
- Norton Simon Museum, 2018-06-01 to 2018-10-29
The Chromatic Eye: New York Paintings and Prints from the 1960s
- Norton Simon Museum, 2001-07-20 to 2001-10-22
Recent Acquisitions, 1969
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1969-11-24 to 1970-01-18
Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974
- Norton Simon Museum, 1999-02-07 to 1999-06-06
- Armory Center for the Arts, 1999-02-07 to 1999-04-11
- Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.), 1999-02-07 to 1999-04-25
- Expo 1967, 1967,
- Pasadena Art Museum, Recent Acquisitions 1969, 1969, p. 7
- Coplans, John, Ellsworth Kelly, 1971,
- Bernstein, Roberta, Ellsworth Kelly: At Right Angles, 1964-1966, 1991, fig. 6
- Armory Center for the Arts/Art Center College of Design, Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, 1999, p. 92
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