The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 28, 2024
Red Blue
1962
(American, 1923–2015)
Framed: 230 x 178 x 4 cm (90 9/16 x 70 1/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 228.6 x 176.4 cm (90 x 69 7/16 in.)
© Ellsworth Kelly
Location: 224A Contemporary Corridor
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Kelly's abstract shapes were often based on observed reality, such as the plants that he kept in his studio.Description
Red Blue is all about the relation of two different colors and two different forms. On the surface of the canvas, two elements come together, interact with each other, and affect each other’s appearance. The arrangement of the two colors red and blue, which work to intensify one another, is one essential component of the work. The other is the confrontation of two different forms: The edges of one shape-the blue rectangle-are given by the edges of the canvas and are therefore logical and measurable, while the organic form of the red color field, despite the clean, precise rendering, seems to breathe and float, activating the composition as a whole. In this way, even though there is no trace of the artist’s hand, the painting refers to very natural and organic forms and ways of perception.- 1964(Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1964–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Richardson, John. Dunn International; An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting Sponsored by the Sir James Dunn Foundation. Great Britain, Arts Council. Catalogues. 1963. Volume 2. [London]: Arts Council, 1963. Reproduced: fig. 41Greenberg, Clement. “Post Painterly Abstraction,” Art International 8 (Summer 1964). Reproduced: p. 64Henning, Edward B. “The Language of Art,” Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (November 1964). Reproduced: p. 226; Mentioned p. 227“Year in Review for 1964,” Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (December 1964).The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 203 archive.org“Recent Accessions in the American Field,” Art in America 54 (May/June 1966). Reproduced: p. 48Handbook of The Cleveland Museum of Art (1969). Reproduced: p. 203Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 5The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 203 archive.orgCleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 5 archive.orgHenning, Edward B. “Reconstruction: A Painting by Jasper Johns,” Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 1973). Mentioned p. 239; Reproduced: p. 241The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 254 archive.orgGreenberg, Clement. “Avant-Garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties,” American Art-Readings from the Colonial Era to the Present (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1980). Mentioned p. 326; Reproduced: p. 327Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 116Paik, Tricia Y., Ellsworth Kelly, Gavin Delahunty, Gary Garrels, Richard Shiff, and Robert Storr. Ellsworth Kelly, 2015. Reproduced: p. 183, 362
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