A large red oval shape overlays a bright blue background inside a white frame.

Ellsworth Kelly

(Red Blue)

1964

Not on view

54 works in the collection
32 exhibitions
View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/10299

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm) Image: 22 × 18 in. (55.9 × 45.7 cm)

Accession number
96.53.3

Edition
102/500

Publication
Printed by Ives-Sillman, Inc.; printed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc.; published by Wadsworth Atheneum

Credit line
Transfer, from the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Special Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art

Rights and reproductions
© Ellsworth Kelly

API
artworks/10299

Part of a series:
Ten Works by Ten Painters, The Wadsworth Atheneum
10 works

Police officers use batons while surrounding and striking a man as bystanders watch.
A bold graphic shows a red number 6 inside a yellow circle with the words "Eternal Hexagon".
Large red oval overlaps bright blue background inside a white rectangular frame.
A triangular sandwich and a tall glass of soda on a plate with two breadsticks.
Yellow graphic with central circle, four surrounding dots, plus signs and up and down arrows.
Large white torn shape with a black circular mark against a yellow background.
Bright abstract print with red, black, yellow, and green blocks and white scribbled text.
Square artwork with alternating blue and yellow stripes divided diagonally into vertical and horizontal bands.
Large black square composed of nine dark rectangles centered on a white background.
White paper shows a grid of small black oval and round marks arranged in repeating abstract patterns.

On the Hour

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