Ellsworth Kelly

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Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance

By Caitlin Haskell and Giampaolo Bianconi

Brief Description

A look at Ellsworth Kelly’s eight Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance collages and how they set the foundation for his career-long exploration of abstract, minimalist art Revered for his iconic colour field paintings, Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) is one of the most influential artists in American Abstraction.... Read More

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Ellsworth Kelly

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Description

A look at Ellsworth Kelly’s eight Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance collages and how they set the foundation for his career-long exploration of abstract, minimalist art

Revered for his iconic colour field paintings, Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) is one of the most influential artists in American Abstraction. His body of work, encompassing paintings, sculptures, and prints, illustrates his unprecedented experiments with form and colour. Less well known are his eight collages, known as Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance (1951), which led directly to some of the artist’s most iconic early works.

Made from papier gomette, or sticky squares of coloured paper used by French schoolchildren, these collages represent Kelly’s early exploration of non-compositional strategies. Created by using chance operations to place the gomette on grids, Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance boldly anticipates the evolution of Kelly’s innovative methods.

Alongside brilliant photographs that bring the reader into intimate contact with Kelly’s series of collages, a wide-ranging roundtable conversation with artist Jacqueline B. Humphries, art historian Hannah Higgins, and Kelly’s widower, the photographer Jack Shear, explores the origins of these groundbreaking works and their continued resonance today, bringing to life the story of his bold, experimental designs.

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300284058

Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 September 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Art Institute of Chicago

Illustration: 30 color illus.

Contributors:

Contributions by Hannah B. Higgins
Edited by Caitlin Haskell
Contributions by Jack Shear
Contributions by Jack Shear
Edited by Giampaolo Bianconi
Contributions by Jacqueline Humphries

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 330.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 80

Collections

Arts & Culture Caitlin Haskell Giampaolo Bianconi Non-Fiction

About the Author

Giampaolo Bianconi is associate curator of modern and contemporary art, and Caitlin Haskell is the Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator in Modern and Contemporary Art and director of Ray Johnson Collections and Research, both at the Art Institute of Chicago.