id:			140139
accession number:	1964.142
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.142
updated:		2025-06-15 11:01:35.513000

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
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creation date:			1962
creation date earliest:		1962
creation date latest:		1962
current location:		224A Contemporary Corridor
creditline:			Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
copyright:			© Ellsworth Kelly

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culture:	America
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

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

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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.)
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	inscription:	Signed, dated and titled on back of cardboard backing
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review (1964)
	opening date:   1964-12-08T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review (1964)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 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, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969).

	title:		Contemporary Installation
	opening date:   2021-04-12T04:00:00
	<i>Contemporary Installation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>The Dunn International</em>. Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada; (September 7– October 6, 1963); The Tate Gallery, London, England (November 14-December 22, 1963)', 'opening_date': '1963-11-14T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1964
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1964–
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RELATED WORKS

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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
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	Greenberg, Clement. “Post Painterly Abstraction,” Art International 8 (Summer 1964).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 64
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	Henning, Edward B. “The Language of Art,” Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (November 1964).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 226; Mentioned p. 227
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	“Year in Review for 1964,” Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (December 1964).
	page number: 	
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	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
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	Handbook of The Cleveland Museum of Art (1969).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 203
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	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
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	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

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History &amp; Education, CMA, 1969.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 5
	url:		https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n5

	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
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	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
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 116
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	Paik, Tricia Y., Ellsworth Kelly, Gavin Delahunty, Gary Garrels, Richard Shiff, and Robert Storr. Ellsworth Kelly, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 183, 362
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