Ellsworth Kelly obituary

One of the most important American abstract artists who created brilliant modular canvases and spectacular outdoor sculptures in steelThe American abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly, who has died aged 92, created sharply defined compositions that were, at least initially, linked to his visual experiences – “a window, or a fragment of a piece of architecture, or someone’s legs ...” In the early 1950s, his style anticipated the unbroken colours and clear lines of hard edge pai