Ellsworth Kelly
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Ellsworth Kelly was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York.
Ellsworth Kelly arrives at LACMA's gala opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum on February 9, 2008, in Los Angeles
Ellsworth Kelly, The Meschers, 1951, oil on canvas, 59 × 59 inches, Museum of Modern Art. Kelly was a pioneer of hard-edge painting in the 1940s and 1950s.
Color Panels for a Large Wall (1978) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022
White Curves (2002), made of white aluminium, in the garden of the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland
Hard-edge painting
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Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas often consist of one unvarying color. The Hard-edge painting style is related to Geometric abstraction, Op Art, Post-painterly Abstraction, and Color Field painting.
Lorser Feitelson, Untitled 1952, 40 x 70 inches