Ellsworth Kelley
Lithograph on Rives BFK paper
35 3/8 x 24 1/4 in. (89.9 x 61.6 cm)
Edition of 75
“For most of his career Mr. Kelly, 89, has been trying to remove the barriers between artist and subject, to strip away the self-consciousness of the creative act. In ways that aren’t immediately obvious, the plant drawings have helped him figure out how to do that. He has called them “a kind of bridge to a way of seeing that was the basis of the very first abstract paintings.”
Artists, or really anyone who has drawn from observation, will know immediately what he means.”