Barns, Long Island
Artist
Ellsworth Kelly
(American, 1923 - 2015)
Date1968
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 3/4 × 13 1/16 inches (22.23 × 33.18 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.94 × 35.56 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.94 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.24.7
SignedOn sheet verso, bottom, stamped, in black ink with pencil: “This photography by / ELLSWORTH KELLY / was printed under the supervision of the artist. / [signature] / Jack Shear, Executor, Estate of Ellsworth Kelly / EK PH 68.10 Edition 3/6”
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 3/6
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of the side of a barn with a gabled roof and weathered wood siding. A wheeled watering apparatus sits rusting amid the dry grasses and broken boards.Gallery LabelEllsworth Kelly distills two Long Island barns to their essential, architectural geometry. Best known as a painter, Kelly began taking pictures in 1950 to "make notations of things I had seen and subjects I had been drawing." Kelly’s photographs are records of his vision rather than studies for his canvases and demonstrate his astute talent for abstracting forms from everyday life.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO by 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Copyright© Ellsworth Kelly
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