Tiger
Ellsworth Kelly
1953
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on five canvases
Dimensions
overall size (five joined panels): 205.1 x 217.2 cm (80 3/4 x 85 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Accession Number
1992.85.1
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...