2001.35: Nine Colors on White I

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2001.35

People

Ellsworth Kelly, American (Newburgh, NY 1923 - 2015 Spencertown, NY)

Title

Nine Colors on White I

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1953

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/280694

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Collage with colored papers on cream wove paper

Technique

Collage

Dimensions

sight: 59.7 x 49.8 cm (23 1/2 x 19 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Ellsworth Kelly, Spencertown, New York, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the artist in honor of Neil and Angelica Rudenstine

Copyright

© Ellsworth Kelly Foundation

Accession Year

2001

Object Number

2001.35

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Yve-Alain Bois, Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), cat. no. 159, n.p., repr. color and p. 30

Exhibition History

• Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/06/1999 - 05/16/1999; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 06/08/1999 - 08/15/1999; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 09/11/1999 - 12/05/1999; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 01/15/2000 - 03/19/2000; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 04/01/2000 - 05/28/2000; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, 06/29/2000 - 08/27/2000
• Acquisitions in Honor of Neil and Angelica Rudenstine, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/04/2001 - 05/06/2001

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