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Article: Bay area celebrates Ellsworth Kelly. (San Francisco).(art exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)(Brief Article)
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- Art Business News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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Some 58 works by Ellsworth Kelly, the American abstract painter and sculptor best known for his experiments with color, are on view in a new exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art called "Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco." Spanning the artist's career of 50-plus years, the exhibit brings together, for the first time, the 22 pieces the museum acquired from Kelly's own collection in May 1999. Included are such masterworks as "Cite" (1951), "Red Blue" (1966) and "Curve XXI" (1978-80), as well as major paintings, sculptures, relief works, collages and drawings from private collections throughout the Bay area.
The earliest works on view date from the ...