56 page book with 36 color plates Ellsworth Kelly in Dallas documents the extraordinary relationship between this revered American artist and the Dallas art community,which has resulted in a major concentration of Kelly's work in all media,including the imposing abstractions he completed for two buildings with blocks of each other Dallas's private collections and the Dallas Museum of Art's holdings collectively offer a refined overview of Kelly's career from a youthful1947 self-portrait drawing to masterful single-panel paintings from the 1980's. Brought together with select loans relating to work in Dallas,the exhibition consist of approximately forty works,from study drawings to major paintings and sculpture,and has been devised by Kelly in consulation with the DMA'S staff. As such,the exhibition offers a rare glimpse into how an artist sees his own work best installed,in this case how Kelly's supremely refined art interacts within the mass,space,and volume of Barnes's Barrel Vault and four Quadrant Galleries at the Dallas Museum of Art. |