“Austin” is the legendary artist’s first building. It’s easy to sigh at people who take selfies in front of art. (*Clutches pearls* How gauche!) But in front of Ellsworth Kelly’s last, posthumously ...

For fans of Ellsworth Kelly, today is a day to celebrate. In honor of what would have been Kelly’s 96th birthday, the United States Postal Service has released a set of 20 new postage stamps bearing ...

“Ellsworth Kelly: Last Paintings” is a sight to behold—but it also has to be experienced. The nine works showcased represent the final paintings that Kelly made before his passing in 2015, capping off ...

When art world luminary Ellsworth Kelly died in December at the age of 92, his obituaries described him as an artist who rejected the very idea of art as self-expression. Now a new study by scholar ...

Ellsworth Kelly’s work, radical in its reduction of line and color, seems conceived of an immaculate eye. Indeed, Kelly eschewed mere composition. “I realized I didn’t want to compose pictures, I ...

Ellsworth Kelly planning his exhibition for Blum Helman Gallery. Photograph by Jack Shear, 1988. © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation © Jack Shear, Courtesy of Ellsworth ...

SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — Even though abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly’s final home and studio was in Spencertown, N.Y. — a modest distance of some 70 miles as the crow flies from his Newburgh, N.Y., ...

For half a century, the artist Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) has been acclaimed for his clean, clear forms of specific and brilliant color. His precise and confident approach is best known in paintings, ...

Interior rendering of Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin”(2015) (All images courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art) Move out of the way, Houston, with your fancy Rothko Chapel. Austin’s fix’n to get one of its own ...

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has finished the construction of Austin, the last project of artist Ellsworth Kelly to be realized before his death at the end of 2015.

Ellsworth Kelly, Horizontal Nude or St. Martin Landscape, 1974, 4 x 5 7/8 inches, collection of Ellsworth Kelly Studio and Jack Shear, copyright Ellsworth Kelly Foundation" Ellsworth Kelly, The Young ...

Ellsworth Kelly at his Spencertown studio in 2011. Jack Shear/Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. The Ellsworth Kelly Foundation is celebrating the centennial of the artist’s birth by donating $2.75 million ...