id:			140139
accession number:	1964.142
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.142
updated:		2019-06-27 08:08:56.317000

Red Blue, 1962. Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015). Oil on canvas; framed: 230 x 178 x 4 cm (90 9/16 x 70 1/16 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 228.6 x 176.4 cm (90 x 69 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1964.142 © Ellsworth Kelly

title:				Red Blue
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1962
creation date earliest:		1962
creation date latest:		1962
current location:		229B Contemporary
creditline:			Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
copyright:			© Ellsworth Kelly

---

culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Painting
type:		Painting
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

* Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015)  - artist

---

measurements: Framed: 230 x 178 x 4 cm (90 9/16 x 70 1/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 228.6 x 176.4 cm (90 x 69 7/16 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed, dated and titled on back of cardboard backing
	translation:	
	remark:		

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review (1964)
	opening date:   1965-01-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review (1964)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 1-31, 1965).

	title:		Works from the Contemporary Collection
	opening date:   1969-07-01T04:00:00
	<i>Works from the Contemporary Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 1-October 15, 1969).

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, The Dunn International (7 September 1963 - ??); traveled to London, England, The Tate Gallery (14 November - 22 December 1963), ill. no. 41.<br>Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review (12-31 January 1965).<br>CMA:  Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969

---

PROVENANCE

---

fun fact: 


digital description: 


wall description: 
Red Blue is all about the relation of two different colors and two different forms. On the surface of the canvas, two elements come together, interact with each other, and affect each other’s appearance. The arrangement of the two colors red and blue, which work to intensify one another, is one essential component of the work. The other is the confrontation of two different forms: The edges of one shape-the blue rectangle-are given by the edges of the canvas and are therefore logical and measurable, while the organic form of the red color field, despite the clean, precise rendering, seems to breathe and float, activating the composition as a whole. In this way, even though there is no trace of the artist’s hand, the painting refers to very natural and organic forms and ways of perception.
---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	Richardson, John. Dunn International; An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting Sponsored by the Sir James Dunn Foundation. Great Britain, Arts Council. Catalogues. 1963. Volume 2. [London]: Arts Council, 1963.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 41
	url:		

	Greenberg, Clement. “Post Painterly Abstraction,” Art International 8 (Summer 1964).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 64
	url:		

	Henning, Edward B. “The Language of Art,” Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (November 1964).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 226; Mentioned p. 227
	url:		

	“Year in Review for 1964,” Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (December 1964).
	page number: 	
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 203
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n227

	“Recent Accessions in the American Field,” Art in America 54 (May/June 1966).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 48
	url:		

	Handbook of The Cleveland Museum of Art (1969).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 203
	url:		

	Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: Dept. of Art History &amp; Education, CMA, 1969.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 5
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 203
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n227

	Henning, Edward B. “Reconstruction: A Painting by Jasper Johns,” Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 1973).
	page number: 	Mentioned p. 239; Reproduced: p. 241
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 254
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n274

	Greenberg, Clement. “Avant-Garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties,” American Art-Readings from the Colonial Era to the Present (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1980).
	page number: 	Mentioned p. 326; Reproduced: p. 327
	url:		

	Paik, Tricia Y., Ellsworth Kelly, Gavin Delahunty, Gary Garrels, Richard Shiff, and Robert Storr. Ellsworth Kelly, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 183, 362
	url:		

---

IMAGES