Notebook spread showing five bold black geometric shapes on lined paper, one with a small green triangle.

Drawings

First Study for "Painting in Five Panels"

1955

Medium
Pencil and ink on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 × 9 1/2 in. (7.6 × 24.1 cm)
Accession number
2023.95
Acquired
2023
Credit line
Gift of Jack Shear in honor of the Ellsworth Kelly Centennial
Department
collection

About this work

Ellsworth Kelly, First Study for "Painting in Five Panels", 1955. Pencil and ink on paper, sheet: 3 × 9 1/2 in. (7.6 × 24.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jack Shear in honor of the Ellsworth Kelly Centennial 2023.95

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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