Ellsworth Kelly : portrait drawings / edited by Kevin Salatino, with Emily Vokt Ziemba ; essays by Jordan Carter, Richard Meyer, and Susan Tallman, and an interview with Jack Shear.

Featuring one hundred figurative works on paper by Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), this volume shows a new side of an artist best known for abstraction. These informal depictions of friends and expressive self-portraits--all rarely or never previously displayed or published--span the entirety of Kelly'...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Art Institute of Chicago (Host institution)
Other Authors: Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-2015 (Artist)
Salatino, Kevin (Editor, Interviewer)
Ziemba, Emily Vokt (Editor, Interviewer)
Carter, Jordan (Contributor)
Meyer, Richard, 1966- (Contributor)
Tallman, Susan (Contributor)
Pascale, Mark (Interviewer)
Shear, Jack (Interviewee)
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Kelly, Ellsworth, > 1923-2015 > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Portrait drawing, American > Exhibitions.
ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits.
Kelly, Ellsworth, > 1923-2015.
Portrait drawing, American.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:188 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Ellsworth Kelly's Voluptuous Line / Kevin Salatino
  • Stilled Life and Likeness: Ellsworth Kelly and the History of Portraiture / Susan Tallman
  • Drawing Near: Ellsworth Kelly's Private Portraits / Richard Meyer
  • Staging Ellsworth Kelly(s): Camouflage, Multiplicity, and Negation in Kelly's Self-Representations / Jordan Carter
  • I'll Make You One: An Interview with Jack Shear / Kevin Salatino, Emily Vokt Ziemba, and Mark Pascale
  • Works in the Exhibition.