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Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923)
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Ellsworth Kelly
Untitled 1960
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Biographie |
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1923 |
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Born: in Newburgh, NY on May 31st |
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1941 - 1943 |
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Studied Applied Arts at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
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1942 - 1945 |
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Served military duty |
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1946 - 1947 |
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Diploma Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, where he took drawing and painting classes with Carl Zerbe |
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1948 |
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Ecole des Beux-Arts, Paris, France; travelled to see the Isenheimer Altarpiece in Colmar |
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1950 - 1951 |
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Taught at the American School in Paris |
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1951 |
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Had his first solo show at the Galerie Arnaud in Paris |
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1956 |
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Had his first solo show in New York at the Betty Parsons Gallery |
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1958 |
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Began to create freestanding sculptures |
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1969 |
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Executed a mural for UNESCO |
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1973 |
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Recipient, The Painting Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago |
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1978 |
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Executed a sculpture for Barcelona |
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1986 |
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Executed a bronze sculpture for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX |
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1988 |
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Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic |
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1993 |
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Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French Republic at the French Embassy in Washington DC |
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1993 |
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Executed a memorial for the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. |
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2000 |
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Praemium Imperiale for Painting |
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2002 |
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Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic |
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Lives and works in Spencertown, NY |
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Expositions |
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2012 |
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Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany |
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2011 - 2012 |
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Schwarz & Weiß / Black & White, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
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2008 |
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Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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2007 |
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Living Color, Vassarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary |
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2006 |
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Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
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2005 |
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Spectrum, Galerie Lelong - New York, New York, NY |
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2004 |
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Neue Nationalgalerie, Das MoMA, Berlin, Germany |
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2003 |
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Ellsworth Kelly, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Die Fondation Maeght
Schloss Ujazdowski, Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Von Picasso bis Warhol, Warsaw, Poland |
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2002 |
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ELLSWORTH KELLY Werke 1956-2002, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Ellsworth Kelly, Tablet: 1948–1973, The Drawing Center, New York, NY |
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2001 |
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Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1999 |
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Ellsworth Kelly – Sculpture for a Large Wall, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
Ellsworth Kelly: Five Decades of Line, Form and Colour, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (solo)
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (solo)
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper 1948-1955, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Boston, MA |
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1998 |
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Ellsworth Kelly. New Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Retrospectives, Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Munich, Germany (solo) |
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1996 |
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Ellsworth Kelly. A Retrospective, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
Ellsworth Kelly on the Roof, Cantor Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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1993 |
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New Displays: Ellsworth Kelly, Tate Gallery, London, England |
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1989 |
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Ellsworth Kelly: Courtyard Installation, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo) |
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1987 |
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Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Ellsworth Kelly: A Print Retrospective, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI |
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1982 |
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Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo) |
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1979 |
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XXXVI Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 36th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting together with Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Ellsworth Kelly: Painting and Sculpture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Ellsworth Kelly Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo) |
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1973 |
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Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
Ellsworth Kelly, Curved Series, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1968 |
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The Art of the Real, USA 1948-1968, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1966 |
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American Pavilion, XXXIII Venice Biennale |
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1965 |
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Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1964 |
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Galerie Maeght, Paris, France (solo) |
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1963 |
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Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings by Ellsworth Kelly, Gallery of Modern Art, Washington D.C. (solo) |
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1959 |
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Sixteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1958 |
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Galerie Maeght, Paris, France (solo) |
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1957 |
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Young America 1957, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1956 |
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Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1951 |
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Galerie Arnaud, Paris, France (solo) |
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1947 |
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Boris Mirski Art Gallery, Boston, MA |
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