• Ellsworth Kelly — A Salute to Ellsworth Kelly, Archives of American Art, New York, October 19, 1999. Programme publication front cover. Solid red wraps with white serif text along top edge reading: "Archives of American Art. A Salute to Ellsworth Kelly. October 19, 1999."
  • Ellsworth Kelly — A Salute to Ellsworth Kelly, 1999 — interior plate. Black and white photograph of Ellsworth Kelly seated on the floor of his studio, working at low level. Two large canvases with biomorphic curved forms visible in background. Worktable and studio equipment in mid-ground.
  • Ellsworth Kelly — A Salute to Ellsworth Kelly, 1999 — interior plate. Black and white photograph of Kelly's studio, Spencertown, NY, 1994. Photo by Jack Shear. Large dark quarter-circle canvas installed against white wall, surrounded by scattered paper studies. Metal stepladder left, worktable and trolley in foreground.
  • Ellsworth Kelly — A Salute to Ellsworth Kelly, 1999 — interior spread. Colour plate showing five Ellsworth Kelly publications arranged on a grey ground: Sculpture and Paintings (Blum Helman), Drawings 1960–1962 (Gemini G.E.L.), a blue cloth-bound monograph, a colour spectrum lithograph card, and a portrait photograph. Sources listed as Matthew Marks Gallery, Brooke Alexander, Susan C. Larsen, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
  • Ellsworth Kelly — A Salute to Ellsworth Kelly, 1999 — back cover. Blue wraps with acknowledgements in white text. Thanks to Ellsworth Kelly for the gift of Blue Curve (1999), Republic National Bank of New York, Gemini G.E.L., Jack Shear, Matthew Marks Gallery, Vianelli Associates, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Archives of American Art

Ellsworth Kelly — A Salute to Ellsworth Kelly, Archives of American Art, 1999

Ellsworth Kelly — A Salute to Ellsworth Kelly, Archives of American Art, 1999

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Archives of American Art, New York, 1999
Programme publication
Staple-bound wraps
Approx. 21 × 21 cm
Offset print, colour and black-and-white

Issued for A Salute to Ellsworth Kelly, October 19, 1999.

A single-event publication structured around acknowledgement, image circulation, and institutional alignment. The red cover carries the entire proposition in one line; inside, the programme unfolds as a sequence of studio photographs, reproduced works, and references to prior publications, arranged without hierarchy.

The images function as placements rather than illustrations: Kelly’s studio in Spencertown (1994), works in progress, installed canvases, printed matter positioned as objects among other objects. A secondary spread gathers books, portfolios, and reproductions into a flat display — publication reflecting on publication.

Acknowledgements occupy a full field on the closing page, listing donors, galleries, printers, and mediating figures. Gemini G.E.L., Matthew Marks Gallery, and the Archives itself appear not as background support but as visible components of the structure. The edition of Blue Curve (1999), noted in the text, sits within this network as both artwork and event residue.

The programme does not document the evening so much as stabilise its conditions: tribute, archive, reproduction, sponsorship. Kelly’s work is present, but displaced into image, reference, and circulation.

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear to covers, minor edge softening, clean interior.

An object organised around a single date, extending outward through images, credits, and prior editions.

Original period item.

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