Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall

Christine Mehring

ISBN 10: 1944929142 / ISBN 13: 9781944929145

Published by Artbook D.A.P. Apr 2019, 2019

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Neuware - In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most ambitious artworks to date, Color Panels for a Large Wall, an 18-panel painting executed in two versions. The larger, at over 125 feet wide, was the biggest painting he had ever made, and its trajectory would pass through not just Cincinnati but also Amsterdam, New York and Munich before ending up at its permanent home, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where it has been prominently installed in the I.M. Pei-designed East Building since 2004.The smaller version, over 30 feet wide, remained in the artist's possession. This catalog tells the complete story of these two remarkable paintings.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall
• Publisher: Artbook D.A.P. Apr 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944929142
• ISBN 13: 9781944929145
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 256W x 224H x 17D millimeters 256 millimeters width by 224 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 670 grams

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Synopsis

In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most ambitious artworks to date, Color Panels for a Large Wall, an 18-panel painting executed in two versions. The larger, at over 125 feet wide, was the biggest painting he had ever made, and its trajectory would pass through not just Cincinnati but also Amsterdam, New York and Munich before ending up at its permanent home, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where it has been prominently installed in the I.M. Pei–designed East Building since 2004.The smaller version, over 30 feet wide, remained in the artist's possession. This catalog tells the complete story of these two remarkable paintings.