Spectrum V

Artist:: Ellsworth Kelly (American, Newburgh, New York 1923–2015 Spencertown, New York)

Date:: 1969

Medium:: Oil on canvas

Dimensions:: Each panel: 84 1/4 x 34 1/4in. (214 x 87cm)

Classification:: Paintings

Credit Line:: Gift of the artist, 1969

Accession Number:: 69.210a-m

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 924

the artist, Spencertown, N.Y. (1969; his gift to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970," October 18, 1969–February 1, 1970, no. 180.

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "The Structure of Color," February–April 1971, no catalogue.

Albany. New York State Museum. "New York: The State of Art," October 8–November 27, 1977, extended to January 15, 1978, no. 528.

Henry Geldzahler. "Reports of the Departments. Twentieth Century Art." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 29 (October 1970), p. 99, ill.

Henry Geldzahler in "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975. New York, 1975, p. 209, ill.

Holland Cotter et al. "Reflections." New York Times (January 4, 2013), p. C24, ill. (color).

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