Ellsworth Kelly, a distinguished contemporary American artist, is one of the great talents of his generation. His work, with its array of flat, sharp-edged forms and unmodulated color, figures significantly in the history of nongestural abstraction-a hybrid of the geometric and biomorphic traditions.

The insightful, gorgeously illustrated first volume of the most important publication to date on Ellsworth Kelly’s work Written by Ellsworth Kelly scholar Yve-Alain Bois in direct collaboration with the artist, this comprehensive multivolume publication contains exhaustive documentation of each of Kelly's paintings, sculptures, and reliefs. The catalogue includes insightful texts and high-quality images of individual works and preparatory drawings, along with provenance information, exhibition history, and bibliographic information. Encompassing Kelly's work up to his return to the United States from France in 1954, the present volume covers the artist's formative years as a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and as a young artist living in Paris, where he began painting the abstract forms which would later define his career. Kelly’s remarkable pace of production during this early period resulted in an especially diverse oeuvre, which is discussed in depth throughout this publication. In Bois’s words, “This diversity is the main reason many of the works examined in this volume are discussed at such length and in such detail: In almost every case, the particular question the artist was addressing, and the formal solution he devised for it, was entirely novel to him.”

Essay by Harry Cooper.

The definitve study of Ellsworth Kelly's equisite series of plant, fruit, and flower lithographs.

Now available in a new accessible format - the definitive monograph on one of the most revered artists of our time Ellsworth Kelly will forever be remembered as one of the most distinctive and influential artists of our time. This book, the last created in close collaboration with the artist, maps his prolific and diverse oeuvre from the 1940s to his final projects before his death in late 2015. Featuring a newly designed cover, this hardback edition brings Tricia Paik's critically acclaimed volume to a new audience of readers.

This comprehensive catalogue presents the graphic work of this distinguished American artist. The text discusses Kelly's graphics in the context of his total oeuvre. All his prints to date -- more than 200 lithographs, intaglios, screenprints, and cast-paper works -- are fully documented.

"Boston University Art Gallery, September 11-October 25, 1998."