A new series of USPS stamps featuring works by Ellsworth Kelly, including Spectrum I (1953), Blue Red Rocker (1963) and Orange Red Relief (for Delphine Seyrig) (1990)
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It is a very special birthday indeed for the US artist Ellsworth Kelly, who would have been 96 years old today. The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin has announced a gift of 76 works by Kelly from the artist, his partner Jack Shear, who is the president of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, and other donors. These works, which include drawings of religious subjects and plants, relief sculpture and panel paintings, “illustrate the arc of Kellys expansive career and his curiosity about the world around him”, says the museums director, Simone Wicha. Shortly before he died in 2015, Kelly gave the museum the design for Austin, his only building, a cross-shaped stone structure which opened in February 2018, and many of the works relate to this masterpiece. Meanwhile, the United States Postal Service will be snazzing up letters nationwide with a series of colourful stamps featuring ten of Kellys minimalist compositions dating from the 195Read More – Source
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