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Page from a sketchbook with hand drawn diagrams in graphite of numbered, labeled grids

A large rectangle occupying most of the center and top of the sheet contains variously shaped smaller rectangles, that are clustered in each corner of the large one. At top right is a smaller, similarly subdivided rectangle, to which an arrow from the large rectangle is pointing. At bottom center-right is a third, middle sized grid. The boxes in all three grids are labeled with the name of a color like “violet”, or with initials, “py”, “v”, “x”, “ow” or “o”, which correspond to a handwritten list at bottom left of the colors, “pale yellow”, “violet”, “white”, “off white” and “orange”, respectively.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.33
People
Ellsworth Kelly, American (Newburgh, NY 1923 - 2015 Spencertown, NY)
Title
Sketch of a Beach Cabana V
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1950
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/174159

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
27 x 21 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: BEACH CABANA 5 50.129
  • inscription: verso, l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: 1950

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ellsworth Kelly, Spencertown, New York, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums through [Matthew Marks Gallery, New York], 2001.


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the artist and purchase from the Margaret Fisher Fund and through the generosity of Kenyon C. Bolton III, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Richard E. Oldenburg, and Emily Rauh Pulitzer in honor of Neil and Angelica Rudenstine
Copyright
© Ellsworth Kelly Foundation
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.33
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Yve-Alain Bois, Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), cat. no. 78, n.p., repr. color and p. 13 and indirect refs. on pp. 14, 16 and 17

Exhibition History

  • Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/06/1999 - 05/16/1999; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 06/08/1999 - 08/15/1999; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 09/11/1999 - 12/05/1999; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 01/15/2000 - 03/19/2000; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 04/01/2000 - 05/28/2000; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, 06/29/2000 - 08/27/2000
  • Acquisitions in Honor of Neil and Angelica Rudenstine, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/04/2001 - 05/06/2001
  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006
  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/07/2017 - 10/12/2017

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