Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955

Univ. New. 1999. Hardcover. 1891771094 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY - 264 pages, 11 5/8 x 10 3/4" - 197 illustrations, 185 in color - Copublished with Kunstmuseum Winterthur. - During his expatriate years in France (1948–54), Ellsworth Kelly developed the visual strategies that would make him one of the most important artists of our era. This is most evident in his French drawings, here presented thoroughly for the first time, together with a searching commentary by noted scholar Yve-Alain Bois. In drawing, Kelly evolved four strategies for making art: transfer, chance, modular grid, and monochrome panel. His goal was to develop an alternative to traditional composition at once radically inventive and stubbornly personal. This catalogue presents an intimate view of the process of artistic conception. - This pioneering exhibition, organized by the Art Museums and the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, will comprise approximately 220 drawings by Ellsworth Kelly from the 1948-1955 period. Many of these drawings, in which one sees Kelly working out his abstract aesthetic, have never been exhibited before. Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art at Harvard, is the curator of the exhibition and will author a fully-illustrated catalogue. A special section of the exhibition will be devoted to Line Form Color, a set of forty drawings and collages Kelly completed in 1951 for a projected book without words that was never realized. In conjunction with the exhibition, Kelly has completed the book. The slipcase edition will include an essay by Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art and organizer of the exhibition at the Art Museums. Line Form Color will be on view in the Fogg's Straus Gallery and the remaining works in the exhibition will be on view in the Sackler's first floor exhibition gallery. -- with a bonus offer-- .