Blue/Green
Date1970
Medium2 color lithograph on special Arjomari paper
DimensionsSheet: 39 1/2 × 37 3/4 inches (100.3 × 95.9 cm)
Framed: 41 1/2 × 39 5/8 × 1 inches (105.4 × 100.6 × 2.5 cm)
MarkingsEmbossed stamps on the bottom right corner: circle with a letter “c” and a circle with a Roman numeral three design;
Stamped on the back bottom in black ink: "GEMINI GEL / LOS ANGELES, CALIF"
Credit LineBequest of Dr. David M. Hillenbrand.
Object number2021.4.2
Copyright© Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextAbstract painter Ellsworth Kelly lived in Paris from 1948–54, and as a result his minimalist forms show the influence of figures of the European art world such as Jean Arp, Henri Matisse, and Paul Klee. He was known for appropriating objects or images from the natural world and abstracting them into ultra-simple, flat paintings that deliberately reveal almost nothing of the artist’s hand in their clean, geometric compositions. The creation of Blue/Green was the result of a collaboration between the artist and the printmaking workshop Gemini G.E.L. in 1970 on an edition of 10 lithographs.
