White Black
Framed: 86 1/2 × 49 1/2 inches (219.71 × 125.73 cm)
Reinstallation of the Collections of Twentieth Century Art, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, June 9-14, 1992, no cat.
Surface, Structure, Light, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, December 13, 1995-February 4, 1996, no cat.
Ellsworth Kelly A Retrospective,
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 18, 1996-January 15, 1997;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 16-May 18, 1997; Tate
Gallery, London, June 12-September 7, 1997; Haus der Kunst, Munic, November
1997-January 1998, no. 40, (New York only).
Acquired from the artist by Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, as Untitled (Black White), by January 23, 1967 [1];
Purchased from Sidney Janis Gallery by Mr. Melvin (1915-1999) and Mrs. Rosalie (née Frank, 1922-2011) Kolbert, Huntington Woods, MI, January 23, 1967-at least 1972;
Private collection, Florida [2];
With Jason McCoy, Inc., New York, by 1992;
Purchased from Jason McCoy, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1992.
NOTES:
[1] According to Jeanie Deans, Carroll Janis Inc., in an email to MacKenzie Mallon, Specialist, Provenance, August 29, 2017, NAMA curatorial files, the artist consigned the painting to Sidney Janis Gallery in the mid-1960s.
[2] According to Jason McCoy, Inc., in object documentation provided at the time of the Nelson-Atkins' purchase, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
John Coplans, Ellsworth Kelly (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1972), (repro.) no. 141.
Deborah Emont Scott, Summer 1992 Newsletter, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, 1992, p. 2.
Alice Thorson, “Showing minimalist art in its best light,” The Kansas City Star (March 1992).
“Midwest Art History Society Newsletter”, Fall 1992, repro. on back cover.
“Reinstallation of the Collections of Twentieth Century Art”, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, 1992, (repro. on cover).
Alice Thorson, "Modernizing the Nelson," The Kansas City Star (June 14, 1992), K-1, K-6, (repro.).
“Recent acquisitions of painting, sculpture and decorative arts at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.” The Burlington Magazine, No. 1112 Vol. CXXXVII (November 1995), 787, (repro.).
Mario Naves, Ellsworth Kelly at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Wordpress, 1996, (repro.).
Diane Waldman, ed., Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1996), cat. no. 40, repro. 150.
Bice Curiger, Carter Ratcliff, Peter J. Schneemann, Georgia O’Keeffe (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlog, 2003), 40, (repro.).
“Midwest Art History Society Newsletter”, Fall 1992, repro. on back cover.
“Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Member Magazine Fall 2007”, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, 2007, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 217, (repro.).
“Post
War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale,” Christie’s, November 10, 2009, repro. 160.
