Blue, Yellow and Red Squares
1971
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screenprint in blue, yellow, and red on Special Arjomari wove paper
Dimensions
image: 61 x 182.9 cm (24 x 72 in.) sheet: 86.4 x 208.3 cm (34 x 82 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Maclyn E. Wade
Accession Number
1979.75.1
About the Artist
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was a pioneering American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose career reshaped abstract art through precise geometry, bold color, and innovative forms. Born in Newburgh, New York, as the second of three sons to an insurance executive father and schoolteacher mother, Kelly developed an early fascination with nature's patterns, sparked by his paternal grandmother's int...