Color Panels for a Large Wall
1978
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oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall (each of 18 panels): 121.9 x 174 cm (48 x 68 1/2 in.) installed: 853.4 × 1981.2 cm (336 × 780 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by The Glenstone Foundation, Mitchell P. Rales, Founder
Accession Number
2005.87.1
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...