Ellsworth Kelly
Diagonal with Curve II
1978
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Ellsworth Kelly
Diagonal with Curve II
1978
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 95 1/2 x 97 1/2 in. (242.6 x 247.7 cm.)
Portfolio/Series
From a series of seven paintings
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Edith Ferry Hooper
Object Number
1979.32
Ellsworth Kelly’s colors and shapes were often inspired by glimpses from everyday life—the line of a table, a shadow on a stairway, a leaf. He uses ordinary language to describe the sweeping beauty of Diagonal with Curve II: “I like the movement of this painting; it’s like the dive of a fish. It belongs to a series of paintings and sculptures with descending curves in which the bottom point nearly touches the floor.”
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1979; from Blum Helman Gallery, New York; from the artist
Jane Livingston, "The 36th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,February 24-April 8, 1979, no. 14, ill. p. 122.
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, "Ellsworth Kelly," April 28-June 15, 1979.
Darsie Alexander, "Front Room: Ellsworth Kelly," The Baltimore Museum of Art, November 14, 2007-February 17, 2008, brochure, ill.
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, "Ellsworth Kelly," April 28-June 15, 1979.
Darsie Alexander, "Front Room: Ellsworth Kelly," The Baltimore Museum of Art, November 14, 2007-February 17, 2008, brochure, ill.
Alexander, Darsie. Ellsworth Kelly. Front Room. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2007, unpaged.
