Untitled
Untitled
Artist
Ellsworth Kelly
(American, 1923-2015)
Date1994
Dimensions20 ft. x 21 1/2 in. (6.1 m x 54.6 cm)
Mediumstainless steel
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineGift of Georgia and David K. Welles
Object number
2003.55
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Sculpture Garden
DescriptionBead-blasted stainless steel.
Label TextEllsworth Kelly spent years exploring the aesthetic possibilities of simple, pure form. He reduced his paintings and sculptures to as few elements as possible, even to the point of using a single shape and color. This elegant steel shaft is twenty feet tall but only two inches thick. It stands in dramatic contrast to the round, fluted Ionic columns of the Museum building. Its subtle concave shape echoes the spaces between the slightly convex columns. The curve has always been one of the most dominant elements in both Kelly’s paintings and sculptural work. The slightly concave edges of this sculpture imply the arcs of two imaginary (and immense) circles flanking it.Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 346, repr. (col.).
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