US Abstract painter

N">important American abstract artist and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly died on Sunday, stated an art form gallery owner in ny. He had been 92.

Matthew scars of Matthew Marks Gallery stated Kelly passed away of normal reasons at his home in Spencertown, ny. Scars stated he had been told associated with the death by Kelly's lover, Jack Shear.

Kelly was born in Newburgh, nyc, in 1923 and served in U.S. military during World War Two. Afterward, he learned art in France for many years in the GI Bill together with his very first solamente tv show at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre in Paris in 1951.

He returned to New York a long period later.

"i believe he bridged European and American modernism, " Marks said. "he had been a genuine US original."

Kelly had retrospectives at nyc's Guggenheim Museum as well as the bay area Museum of Modern Art, among others over their decades-long job.

"in the work Kelly abstracts the types inside the paintings from findings of the real world, like shadows cast by woods or even the spaces between architectural elements, " based on their biography on Guggenheim's web site.

He in addition done public commissions throughout the world, including a memorial for US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Kelly, who known as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse among his impacts, told the opening of a large contemporary art wing showcasing his work on Boston's Museum of Fine Arts in 2013: "i will be nourished by the last, Im questioning the current, and I have always been going into the future."