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Ellsworth Kelly: States Of The River
With the exhibition, States of The River, Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is pleased to join the Ellsworth Kelly Studio and other U.S. museums and venues in celebrating the centennial of the birth of Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), widely regarded as one of the most important painters, sculptors, and printmakers of his time. On Thursday, June 29, the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY, will unveil the exhibition, Ellsworth Kelly: States of the River, featuring nine lithographs by Ellsworth Kelly (1923鈥�2015) created between 2004 and 2005 and printed at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles.
The exhibition takes its name from a series of large-scale one color lithographs by Kelly dedicated to the motif of rivers around the world. Printed in black, with white highlights coming forth from the Rives BFK paper surface, eight large scale prints are each titled after a major waterway: the Rhine; Nile; Thames; Amazon; Seine; Yangtze; Mississippi; and Hudson. At the Edward Hopper House Museum, this group is joined by The River, a lithograph measuring just over nine feet in length. The large format gives the images a sweeping presence as well as an equivalency to Kelly鈥檚 hallmark clean lines and color field paintings and sculptures.
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With the exhibition, States of The River, Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is pleased to join the Ellsworth Kelly Studio and other U.S. museums and venues in celebrating the centennial of the birth of Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), widely regarded as one of the most important painters, sculptors, and printmakers of his time. On Thursday, June 29, the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY, will unveil the exhibition, Ellsworth Kelly: States of the River, featuring nine lithographs by Ellsworth Kelly (1923鈥�2015) created between 2004 and 2005 and printed at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles.
The exhibition takes its name from a series of large-scale one color lithographs by Kelly dedicated to the motif of rivers around the world. Printed in black, with white highlights coming forth from the Rives BFK paper surface, eight large scale prints are each titled after a major waterway: the Rhine; Nile; Thames; Amazon; Seine; Yangtze; Mississippi; and Hudson. At the Edward Hopper House Museum, this group is joined by The River, a lithograph measuring just over nine feet in length. The large format gives the images a sweeping presence as well as an equivalency to Kelly鈥檚 hallmark clean lines and color field paintings and sculptures.
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