Study for Stele II (Sculpture EK 509}
1973
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graphite with oil spatter on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 98.9 × 98.7 cm (38 15/16 × 38 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
In honor of the Ellsworth Kellv Centennial, Gift of Jack Shear
Accession Number
2023.42.3
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...