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About this project I’m RJ Andrews, an information designer based in San Francisco. I’ve always enjoyed seeing Ellsworth Kelly’s work. I grew up in Columbia County, New York, where Kelly had his studio and supported arts and humanities programs in public schools .
I made this because I wanted to get a sense of his body of work: to see related paintings together, compare their shapes and scale, and follow questions back to their sources.
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Catalog, methods & sources This is an incomplete research catalog, not an authenticated catalog raisonné. The total inventory of Kelly’s paintings is not established here. Records with missing details are preserved; works absent from the sources may still be missing entirely.
How to read the views Dominant colors are calculated from the original SVG study: a chromatic family must occupy at least 40% of chromatic pixels and 10% of painted pixels. Neutral families must occupy at least 40% of painted pixels. These screen-area attributes do not measure the original paint. The hue-count filter counts chromatic families occupying at least 1% of painted pixels and 3% of chromatic pixels. Neutrals are excluded and shades remain one hue. Single color means one material color family including neutrals. Recoloring does not change classification. Plot packs works within labeled groups. Proportions use eligible recorded dimensions, falling back to the SVG. Painted area estimates the visible canvas footprint from the SVG silhouette and available dimensions, excluding transparent gaps; hidden overlapping surfaces cannot be recovered. Color choices distinguish individually reviewed references from provisional interpretations in each work’s details.
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The first view keeps the earliest dated record for each repeated title. Under More options, select “Show later works with repeated titles” to include the rest. Shared titles can describe different physical paintings; every later record is retained.
Color and shape are discovery attributes. Check each record’s notes and source before treating them as authoritative. Recorded scale uses the recorded height and width, including multi-panel overall dimensions where supplied. In Gallery, choose Include estimated sizes or Estimated sizes only to include unresolved works using approximate dimensions. Estimates preserve the SVG proportions; open a work for its confidence, source anchors and comparable works. Catalog measurements remain unchanged. Estimation methods ↗ · Estimate data ↓ .
Missing images have explicit placeholders. SVG studies are interpretive reconstructions; geometry and screen color approximate. Source photographs are not distributed in this project. Artwork representations and underlying artworks retain their respective rights.
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Scale silhouettes: Wee People , illustrations by Alberto Cairo, © 2018 ProPublica and Alberto Cairo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US. Unmodified glyph outlines.
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