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Blue Panel
Blue Panel

Blue Panel

Artist Ellsworth Kelly American, 1923–2015
Date1980
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions109 1/2 x 95 in. (278.1 x 241.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton in honor of Lawrence J. Wheeler
Object number2014.20.30
On View
On view
ProvenanceCreated Spencertown, NY, 1980; collection of the artist; [Blum Helman Gallery, New York]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, May 1981; given to NCMA, 2014.Published ReferencesEllsworth Kelly (New York: Blum Helman Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, 1981), illus. (color) 10.

John Russell, “Art: Ellsworth Kelly and Red Grooms Shows,” New York Times (April 17, 1981), C18.

Claude Berri meets Leo Castelli, Ann Hindry, ed. (Paris: RENN, 1990), illus. (color) XCII.

M. B. [Megan Bahr], entry for Blue Panel in Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2001), no. 11, illus. (color) 51.

Linda J. Dougherty, entry for Blue Panel, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 516, illus. (color) 517.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Blum Helman Gallery, “Ellsworth Kelly,” April 7–May 2, 1981, illus. (color) 10.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton,” September 9–November 11, 2001, no. 11, illus. (color), 51.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina,” March 28–August 23, 2015.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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