Painter, sculptor, printmaker Ellsworth Kelly dies at 92

Ellsworth Kelly, the New York painter, sculptor and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the minimalist school, died Sunday at age 92, according to multiple reports.

Four of Kelly’s works fill a room at the Broad, the museum that opened this year. In a review of the opening, Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight noted “their seamless fusion of bold geometric shapes, crisp composition and saturated colors grabs you by the lapels.”

The New York Times’ obituary noted that Kelly’s work, while inspired by Picasso and Byzantine mosaics, “formed a crucial foundation for the Minimalists.”

In his Broad review, Knight wrote of the works: “All calmly share the same flat plane, perfectly balanced in scale and chromatic intensity, yet straining to burst their optical bonds. Kelly makes poise look easy.”