Ellsworth Kelly, with an essay by Harry Cooper

108 pages, 7 1/2 x 8", slipcase; 52 illustrations, 30 in color (1999)

ISBN 1-891771-05-1 (trade paper) $25; ISBN 1-891771-06-x (deluxe boxed edition available); Wholesale distribution by University of Chicago Press.

Ellsworth Kelly first conceived Line Form Color in 1951 as a series of studies, both drawings and collages. Later that year he applied to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for a grant to produce a book, "an alphabet of plastic pictorial elements," but the application was not successful. With this volume, Kelly has brought Line Form Color to completion. Its 40 plates, 18 in color, correspond to the original collages. This edition also includes an essay by Harry Cooper, curator of Modern art at the Fogg Art Museum. The publication coincides with the exhibition Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948–1955 organized by the Harvard University Art Museums and the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.

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related publication Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948–1955