
Art Institute of Chicago
Train Landscape
Ellsworth Kelly · 1953
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 10, 2025.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly, paintings 1951-1956, May 21-June 8, 1956, no cat.
- Paris, Galerie Denise René, Art Abstrait Constructif International - Structures, Dec. 15, 1961-Feb. 10, 1962, no cat. no; Leverkusen, Germany, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen (Schloss Morsbroich), June 22-Aug. 19, 1962.
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Ellsworth Kelly, Sept. 12–Nov. 4, 1973, not in cat; Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, Jan. 14-Mar. 3, 1974; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Mar. 30-May 19, 1974; Detroit Institute of Arts, June 17-Aug. 4, 1974.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Go: The Modern Series, Part II, Feb. 23, 2017–June 4, 2017, no cat.
- Potomac, MD, Glenstone, Ellsworth Kelly at 100, May 4, 2023–Mar. 17, 2024, not in cat; Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, May 6, 2024–Sept. 9, 2024; Qatar, M7, Oct. 24, 2024-Feb. 25, 2025 (Paris and Qatar only).
Literature
Published references
- Michel Seuphor, Art Abstrait Constructif International, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Denise René, 1962), n.p. (ill.).
- John Coplans, "The Earlier Work of Ellsworth Kelly" Artforum 7, no. 10 (Summer 1969), 50 (color ill.), 55.
- John Coplans, Ellsworth Kelly (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1971), 54, n.p., pl. 86, as Three Panels: Train Landscape (color ill.).
- Hess, 1973, pg. 98
- Jeff Perrone, "Ellsworth Kelly, Leo Castelli Graphics" Artforum 15, no. 8 (April 1977): 62.
- Richard H. Axsom, The Prints of Ellsworth Kelly: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1949-1985 (New York: The American Federation of the Arts, 1987), 125, comment, cat. 156.
- Christine Temin, "Interview: Ellsworth Kelly stresses the art, not the artist" The Boston Globe (Dec. 13, 1987), n. 5
- Yve-Alain Bois, Jack Cowart, and Alfred Pacquement, Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France, 1948-1954 (Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art, 1992), 175, cat. 90.
- Diane Waldman, Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1996), 28, n.p., cat. 21 (color ill.).
- Yve-Alain Bois, Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1999), 31.
- Yve-Alain Bois, “Ellsworth Kelly’s Dream of Impersonality” The Institute Letter (New Jersey: Institute for Advanced Study (Fall 2013): n.p. (color ill.).
- Yve-Alain Bois and Sarah Lees, Monet/Kelly, exh. cat. (Williamstown, MA: Clark Art Institute, 2014), 52 (color ill.), 53, 54.
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