Research Catalog

Title

Ellsworth Kelly : portrait drawings / edited by Kevin Salatino, with Emily Vokt Ziemba ; essays by Jordan Carter, Richard Meyer, Kevin Salatino, and Susan Tallman, and an interview with Jack Shear.

Publication

• Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, [2023]
• New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-2015.
• Salatino, Kevin
• Ziemba, Emily Vokt
• Carter, Jordan
• Meyer, Richard, 1966-
• Tallman, Susan
• Pascale, Mark, 1954-
• Shear, Jack
• Art Institute of Chicago, host institution

Description

188 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 26 cm

Summary

Featuring one hundred figurative works on paper by Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), this volume shows a new side of an artist best known for abstraction. These informal depictions of friends and expressive self-portraits--all rarely or never previously displayed or published--span the entirety of Kelly's career, from the mid-1940s to the early 2000s. Throughout his life, Kelly made portraits as a means of keeping his hand adept at drawing, which provided a place to test his ideas, refine his bold use of lines, and interrogate the space between naturalism and abstraction. These works also capture his social milieu, which intersected with other creative circles and the queer community. He painstakingly recorded how his own appearance changed over time, and once described some of these sketches by saying, "I use myself in order to draw." The accompanying critical essays unpack the ways in which such intimate efforts were fundamental to Kelly's practice and situate this important aspect of his work within the artist's wider oeuvre.

Alternative Title

Portrait drawings

Subject

• Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-2015 > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
• Shear, Jack > Interviews
• Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-2015
• Portrait drawing, American > Exhibitions
• Portrait drawing, American

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of exhibition with the same name held at Art Institute of Chicago, from July 1 to October 23, 2023.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Ellsworth Kelly's Voluptuous Line / Kevin Salatino -- Stilled Life and Likeness: Ellsworth Kelly and the History of Portraiture / Susan Tallman -- Drawing Near: Ellsworth Kelly's Private Portraits / Richard Meyer -- Staging Ellsworth Kelly(s): Camouflage, Multiplicity, and Negation in Kelly's Self-Representations / Jordan Carter -- I'll Make You One: An Interview with Jack Shear / Kevin Salatino, Emily Vokt Ziemba, and Mark Pascale -- Works in the Exhibition.

Call Number

JQF 24-311

ISBN

• 9780300269741
• 0300269749

LCCN

2023933072

OCLC

1377211302

Title

Ellsworth Kelly : portrait drawings / edited by Kevin Salatino, with Emily Vokt Ziemba ; essays by Jordan Carter, Richard Meyer, Kevin Salatino, and Susan Tallman, and an interview with Jack Shear.

Publisher

Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, [2023]

Distributor

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-2015. Works. Selections.

Salatino, Kevin, editor, interviewer. Editor. Interviewer

Ziemba, Emily Vokt, editor, interviewer. Editor. Interviewer

Carter, Jordan, contributor. Contributor

Meyer, Richard, 1966- contributor. Contributor

Tallman, Susan, contributor. Contributor

Pascale, Mark, 1954- interviewer.

Shear, Jack, interviewee. Interviewee

Art Institute of Chicago, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 24-311