Ellsworth Kelly
Concorde Relief I, 1958

Artwork Info

Artwork title
Concorde Relief I
Artist name
Ellsworth Kelly
Date created
1958
Classification
sculpture
Medium
wood
Dimensions
11 1/2 × 7 3/4 × 1 3/4 in. (29.2 × 19.8 × 4.6 cm)
Date acquired
1999
Credit
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and promised gift of Helen and Charles Schwab
Copyright
© Ellsworth Kelly Foundation
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/99.342
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.

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NARRATOR: In the late 1950s and through the 1960s, Ellsworth Kelly began adding relief elements on top of his formerly flat canvases. These muscular new works had slightly raised edges, overlapping surfaces, and stretchers of various thicknesses …  

 

GARY GARRELS: … which complicates the interplay of line and of surface and of shadow and shape and form. He’s introducing shadows as an active part of the work itself and our understanding, our relationship to that work.  

 

The paintings are really on a continuum with sculpture, in the way they occupy space and in our relationship to understanding them by our position either in front of them, to the side of them, or as we move around them.  

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