Study for Stained Glass Window, South Wall, Chapel
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Ellsworth Kelly
(Newburgh, New York, 1923–Spencertown, New York, 2015)
Date1987
MediumGraphite on paper
DimensionsSheet: 16 5/8 × 12 3/8 in. (42.2 × 31.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of the artist and Jack Shear, 2018.185
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2018.185
On View
Not on viewEllsworth Kelly extracted what he called the “tumbling squares” motif from Chartres Cathedral’s thirteenth-century north rose window for one of the three stained-glass windows of Austin. In the medieval version, each of the twelve kings of Judah (Christ’s ancestors) occupy a square. Kelly’s sketch distills this design into pure geometry, which in Austin becomes a spectrum of radiant color.
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