ID: 700000320 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000320	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Black Panel II (painting (visual work); Ellsworth Kelly (American, born 1923); 1985; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 1987.419)

Note: Belongs to a series of shaped monochrome canvasses that the artist sees as the fulfillment of three decades of work. At first sight, the work’s shape and darkness seem aggressively bold, though with prolonged viewing from a variety of angles, the piece acquires great ambiguity, even fragility. The shape proves to be subtle, evoking different readings and imagined perspective, while the black comes to life, appearing either darker or lighter.

Titles:

Black Panel II (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,U,U)

Black Panel 2 (C,U,I,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1985

Creator Display:

Ellsworth Kelly (American, born 1923) [preferred,VP]

painter Kelly, Ellsworth (American painter and sculptor, 1923-2015) Extent: execution [500004975]

Locations:

Current: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1987.419

Credit Line: Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund

Address Note: Not On View

Display Materials: oil on canvas, monochrome on shaped canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

	shaped canvases (paintings by form) [300033632]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by form>)

Dimensions: 255.3 x 317.5 cm (100 1/2 x 125 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Hard-edge [300022175] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, <international post-1945 styles and movements>, <post-1945 fine arts styles and movements>)

	Abstract (modern European style) [300108127] (N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>, <modern European fine arts styles and movements>)

General Subject:

nonrepresentational art (preferred,description)

Copyright: © Ellsworth Kelly

Provenance: The artist; with BlumHelman, New York; to MFA, Boston, 1987

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Black Panel II	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)
Black Panel 2	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)