What is Ellsworth Kelly?
{{Infobox artist | name = Ellsworth Kelly | image = Ellsworth Kelly (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Ellsworth Kelly arrives at LACMA’s gala opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum on February 9, 2008 in Los Angeles | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|5|31}} | birth_place = [[Newburgh, New York|Newburgh]], [[New York]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2015|12|27| 1923|5|31}} | death_place = [[Spencertown, New York]], U.S. | nationality = American | field = [[Painting]], [[sculpture]], [[printmaking]] | training = [[Pratt Institute]]<br>[[École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts]]<br>[[School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]] | works = | patrons = | awards = [[Praemium Imperiale]] }} '''Ellsworth Kelly''' (May 31, 1923 &ndash; December 27, 2015) was an [[Americans|American]] painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He worked with [[hard-edge painting]], [[Color Field]] painting and the [[minimalism|minimalist]] school. His works showed unique techniques showing simplicity of form, similar to the work of [[John McLaughlin (artist)|John McLaughlin]] and [[Kenneth Noland]]. Kelly died in [[Spencertown, New York]] on December 27, 2015 of [[respiratory failure]] at the age of 92.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cotter|first1=Holland|title=Ellsworth Kelly, Artist Who Mixed European Abstraction Into Everyday Life, Dies at 92|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/arts/design/ellsworth-kelly-artist-who-mixed-european-abstraction-into-everyday-life-dies-at-92.html|access-date=28 December 2015|work=New York Times}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, Ellsworth}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:American painters]] [[Category:Artists from New York (state)]] [[Category:Deaths from respiratory failure]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in New York (state)]] [[Category:Gay men]] [[Category:LGBT artists]] [[Category:LGBT people from New York (state)]] [[Category:P