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Renowned gay artist Ellsworth Kelly, 92, died on Sunday, Dec. Well, if only one newspaper was gog to spend time wh him, he was lighted was the gay paper. He was also an openly gay man, at a time when even the art world wasn’t entirely receptive to queerns.

THE U.S. POST OFFICE'S NEWT STAMPS? WORKS BY LATE GAY ARTIST ELLSWORTH KELLY"KELLY PNEERED A DISTCTIVE STYLE OF ABSTRACTN BASED ON REAL ELEMENTS RCED TO THEIR SENTIAL FORMS."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYFEBARY 20, 2019/11:44 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2212PX;WIDTH:3306PX;}JACK MCHELL/GETTYMIMALIST PATER ELLSWORTH KELLY PHOTOGRAPHED HIS NEW YORK CY STUD 1968. (PHOTO BY JACK MCHELL/GETTY IMAG)BY DAN AVERYFEBARY 20, 2019 / 11:44 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE U.S. POST OFFICE'S NEWT STAMPS? WORKS BY LATE GAY ARTIST ELLSWORTH KELLY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-02-20T16:44:51.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-02-20T16:44:51.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"ART","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ELLSWORTH KELLY WAS ONE OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL ABSTRACT PATERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. HE WAS ALSO AN OPENLY GAY MAN, AT A TIME WHEN EVEN THE ART WORLD WASN’T ENTIRELY RECEPTIVE TO QUEERNS. NOW, FOUR YEARS AFTER HIS 2015 ATH AT AGE 92, KELLY IS BEG HONORED WH AN EYE-TCHG SERI OF POSTAGE STAMPS, TO BE RELEASED BY THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE LATER THIS YEAR.JACK MCHELL/GETTYARTIST ELLSWORTH KELLY PHOTOGRAPHED 1967. (PHOTO BY JACK MCHELL/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ELLSWORTH KELLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KELLY WAS PART OF A TERIE OF QUEER ARTISTS WHO ALL LIVED NEAR EACH OTHER LOWER MANHATTAN THE LATE 1950S, CLUDG ROBERT RSCHENBERG, JASPER JOHNS, CY TWOMBLY, AND AGN MART. KELLY’S ROCKY ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP WH ARTIST ROBERT INDIANA ACTUALLY SPIRED INDIANA’S MOST FAMO WORK: IN 1964, INDIANA SENT KELLY A POSTRD WH THE F-WORD LAID OUT A NOW-FAIAR PATTERN. OF URSE WHEN INDIANA REWORKED THE IMAGE FOR A HOLIDAY RD THAT WTER, HE ED THE INIC L-O-V-E LETTERG. (THE VERY SHAS OF BLUE AND GREEN INDIANA CHOSE ARE KELLY’S MOST INTIFIABLE LORS.)BRIANNA SOUP/PORTLAND PRS HERALD VIA GETTYVINALHAVEN, ME - JULY 19: BCE GAMAGE SHOWS A ROBERT INDIANA SILKSCREEN PRT OF HIS FAMO "LOVE" CREATN ONE OF HIS STUDS AT HIS HOME, THE "STAR OF HOPE". GAMAGE HAS BEEN WORKG WH HIS FAY ON GETTG INDIANA'S LARGE LLECTN OF WORKS ORR SCE HIS ATH. (STAFF PHOTO BY BRIANNA SOUP/PORTLAND PRS HERALD VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROBERT INDIANA SILKSCREEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS A BOY, KELLY WAS A SHY LONER. BUT DURG WWII, AS PART OF THE FAMO GHOST ARMY, HE HELPED NSTCT FAKE TANKS AND BATTALNS TO BAFFLE THE AXIS. FOLLOWG THE WAR, HE SPENT SIX YEARS PARIS, URTY OF THE G.I. BILL, SOAKG UP THE EXPRSNISTS, THE DADISTS, AND OTHER REVOLUTNARY MOVEMENTS. HE RETURNED TO NEW YORK 1954, AND FOCED HIS PATGS ON LARGE, SIMPLE, ALMOST MANICURED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HIS WORK PRAGED POP ART AND MIMALISM AND, THOUGH HE DIDN’T ADDRS LGBTQ ISSU DIRECTLY, KELLY VOKED THE LORS OF THE RABOW S BEFORE GILBERT BAKER SIGNED THE PRI FLAG.CHNOT/GETTYPARIS, FRANCE - APRIL 07: VISORS LOOK AT A PATG BY US ARTIST ELLSWORTH KELLY ENTLED 'SPECTM !' DURG THE PRS OPENG OF THE EXHIBN 'IN AMERI' (AMERIN INS) AT THE GRAND PALAIS ON APRIL 07, 2015 PARIS, FRANCE. THE EXHIBN NS OM APRIL 8 TO JUNE 22. (PHOTO BY CHNOT/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPECTM ! BY ELLSWORTH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“KELLY PNEERED A DISTCTIVE STYLE OF ABSTRACTN BASED ON REAL ELEMENTS RCED TO THEIR SENTIAL FORMS,” THE USPS SAID A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN RELEASED, EACH STAMP SHEET WILL FEATURE 10 PIEC BY KELLY, EACH PAG REPRENTED TWICE: YELLOW WHE (1961), COLORS FOR A LARGE WALL (1951), BLUE RED ROCKER (1963), SPECTM I (1953), SOUTH FERRY (1956), BLUE GREEN (1962), ORANGE RED RELIEF (FOR DELPHE SEYRIG) (1990), MCHERS (1951), RED BLUE (1964), AND GAZA (1956). A TAIL OM 1971’S BLUE YELLOW RED III APPEARS THE SHEET TRIM.U.S. POST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KELLY IS ALSO RECEIVG MUCH SERVED REGNN ABROAD, AT PARIS’ CENTRE POMPIDOU, WHERE “ELLSWORTH KELLY: WDOWS” OPENS FEBARY 27. THE EXHIBN FEATUR THE SIX WDOWS PATGS KELLY CREATED FRANCE BETWEEN 1949 AND 1950—CLUDG HIS MOST FAMO, WDOW, MM OF MORN ART, PARIS—AS WELL AS RELATED DRAWGS AND SKETCH AND PHOTOGRAPHS OM THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ELLSWORTH KELLY STAMP WILL BE AVAILABLE MAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

One of the largt retrospectiv of work by the late gay artist, who died 2015, Ellsworth Kelly at 100 featur 70 works on display, rangg om drawgs and patgs to sculptur, llag to photography.

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Kelly lived alongsi the artists Robert Indiana, Agn Mart and Jack Youngerman airy old lofts along Coenti he grew olr he seemed tent on makg known other, more difficult stori, whether about beg a young gay man the Army or fearg throughout long perds of his reer that his work might be misunrstood. A chapel is a cur choice for a gay atheist.

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