Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) is one of the masters of American minimalism. He is collected internationally and renowned for his signature hypnotic shapes realized in single colors. Like many artists who had served in the US military during WWII, Kelly took advantage of the G.I. Bill and moved to Paris in the late 1940s only to return to the US in 1954. Kelly was one of the first artists, along with Frank Stella, to use oddly shaped canvases and contributed to the nascent genre of Minimalism.
Kelly's work can be found in every major American museum's permanent collection in addition to the Centre Pompidou (Paris) the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), Tate Modern (London) and the National Gallery (Ottawa)