Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall
Mehring, Christine![Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/278/27817196/CHSBZCOP0327817196.jpg)
In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most ambitious artworks to date, Color Panels for a Large Wall, an 18-panel painting executed in two versions. The larger, at over 125 feet wide, was the biggest painting he had ever made, and its trajecto...