Past Exhibition

Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Prints
September - November 1999

Ellsworth Kelly has been acknowledged as a major American contemporary painter and sculptor for more than three decades. However, it was with his first print retrospective in 1987 that revealed him to be an ambitious printmaker whose graphic editions were integral to his art. The large-scale prints in this exhibition fall into two distinct classes of imagery: abstract forms and botanical subjects which are related, respectively, to his paintings and drawings. Though related in content, the lithographs invite a very different act of contemplation than his monumental paintings that is due, in a large part, to the immediacy of the lithograph process.

Blue/Yellow/Red, 1991 3 Color litho on Rives BFK paper

Red Curve, 1998 Two color litho on Arches 88 paper