Leon Kelly

Sketchbook
1958–1967

A vibrant abstract painting featuring organic, bulbous shapes in black ink, with areas filled in with washes of yellow, orange, and green watercolors. The composition is divided into horizontal bands of color, with the shapes overlapping the bands. The artwork is on a page with perforations along the left edge, suggesting it was torn from a spiral-bound pad, and there is a signature with the date 1962 in the bottom right corner.
A vibrant abstract painting featuring organic, bulbous shapes in black ink, with areas filled in with washes of yellow, orange, and green watercolors. The composition is divided into horizontal bands of color, with the shapes overlapping the bands. The artwork is on a page with perforations along the left edge, suggesting it was torn from a spiral-bound pad, and there is a signature with the date 1962 in the bottom right corner.

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Date
1958–1967

Classification
Books

Medium
Pen and black and brown inks, ink washes, transparent and opaque watercolor, graphite pencil, colored pencil, and wax crayon; commercial sketchbook, perforated leaves

Dimensions
Book: 10 11/16 × 8 1/2 × 1/2in. (27.1 × 21.6 × 1.3 cm)

Accession number
2005.154

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Paula Kelly Muller

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Leon Kelly
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