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Loading... Ellsworth Kelly: 1954, Drawings on a Bus (Sketchbook S.)by Ellsworth Kelly
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This reproduction of Ellsworth Kelly's 1954 Sketchbook 23 offers a rare glimpse into the celebrated artist's rigorous exploration of line, form and composition. Drawn into a blank book and forming a single continuous gesture over 25 pages as the artist saw and captured the changing fall of shadows while riding on a bus in Paris, Kelly's line pursues a path of eccentric discovery and distillation through subtle variations and bold transformations. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)759.13The arts Painting History, geographic treatment, biography United States and Canada United StatesLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |
The inspiration for the drawings in Sketchbook 23 came to the artist while riding a bus. Inspired by the shadows cast across the pages of a book, the artist took out his pencil and quickly recorded the outlines of the shadows directly onto the pages. Upon returning to his studio, Kelly reached for a sketchbook and began developing the sketches in ink, experimenting with variations, cropping and layering the shadow forms to generate new ones.
These black and white drawings became the source material for larger works, including some of the artist’s most celebrated canvases, such as Atlantic (1956) purchased by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1957, the first work by Kelly to enter a museum collection.