Black Form II
2012 · Painted aluminum
80 x 71 3/4 x 4 1/4" (203.2 x 182.2 x 10.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Ellsworth Kelly
1923–2015
SculptureHard-Edge PaintingMinimalismGeometric Abstraction
Representation
None documented
43
Institutional Exhibitions
2299
Works in Collection
4515
Assets Indexed
17
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Hard-Edge Painting
- • Minimalism
- • Geometric Abstraction
- • Color Field
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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ELLSWORTH KELLY The Naming of Colors | Matthew Marks Gallery
Matthew Marks Gallery
2026
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Master Prints from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Abstractions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988–1989
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Following Matisse's Line
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
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In Honor of Toiny Castelli: Drawings from the Toiny and Leo Castelli Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
About
Why this artist matters now
Ellsworth Kelly made flat, hard-edged paintings, shaped canvases, and freestanding sculptures that distilled observed forms from nature and architecture into pure relationships of color, shape, and ground. His reductive compositions, often single-hue panels or multi-panel works, occupy a singular position between postwar abstraction and a perceptual practice rooted in direct looking. Major holdings are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Movement
Hard-Edge Painting
Medium
Sculpture
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Artworks (2299)
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Representation & Collections
Represented by
Matthew Marks Gallery
CurrentGallery
Matthew Marks Gallery
In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Tate
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Background
Education
Beaux-Arts de Paris
Visual Arts
Pratt Institute
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