Ellsworth Kelly Works Online
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Original works by Ellsworth Kelly available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
3 works online
Ellsworth Kelly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Many works online
Ellsworth Kelly at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Ellsworth Kelly
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Charter
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Blue Panel, 1980
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Albany Institute of History and Art, New York
String Bean Leaves II
Broad Art Foundation
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Green Curve with Radius of 20 Feet
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Yellow with Red Triangle
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Blue, Green, Red (EK 950), 2005
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Ellsworth Kelly in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Red, Yellow, Blue II
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Ellsworth Kelly at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Blue/Red-Orange/Green, 1971
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Red Blue, 1963
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Diagonal with Curve III
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Pole (you need to scroll right by clicking the right-arrow to see this)
Seattle Art Museum
Ellsworth Kelly at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Red, Black, Blue
Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Red-Orange No. 3, from the Rouge-Orange Series, 1964-65
Tate Gallery, London, UK
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Large Gray Curve, ca.1974
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Stele II
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Untitled
PBase Photo Sharing
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Photographs of several of Kelly's works
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Artboy
Repository of Abstract Art
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Ellsworth Kelly 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
California Literary Review
2 works online
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 69): Ellsworth Kelly
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Art Story
The New York Observer
"New Museum by Bay At Least Has Matisse And Ellsworth Kelly", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Ellsworth Kelly at the Matthew Marks gallery", brief 2009 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Time Magazine
"Classic Sleeper", 1973 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly
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Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1960-1962
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Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955
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