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Ellsworth Kelly

1923 - 2015

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Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ellsworth Kelly has received more than 640,692 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Ellsworth Kelly is the 1,024th most popular painter (up from 1,184th in 2019), the 3,543rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,654th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Painter.

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  • 640k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Ellsworth Kelly ranks 1,024 out of 1,421. Before him are Isaac Israëls, Édouard Detaille, Boris Vallejo, Antonio Ciseri, Beatrice Wood, and Frans Post. After him are Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Barbara Hepworth, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Caesar van Everdingen, Francesco Furini, and Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Ellsworth Kelly ranks 163. Before him are Carl Djerassi, Ferenc Szusza, Erroll Garner, Sam Francis, Cesare Siepi, and Inge Morath. After him are Evelyn McHale, Ziba Ganiyeva, Lydia Clarke, Gerard Reve, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, and Jozef Lenárt. Among people deceased in 2015, Ellsworth Kelly ranks 144. Before him are Franco Interlenghi, Carl Djerassi, Joshua Fishman, Michael Graves, Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and Harald Nielsen. After him are Chris Squire, Egon Bahr, Renzo Zorzi, Vicente Aranda, Elena Obraztsova, and Dean Jones.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ellsworth Kelly ranks 3,543 out of 18,182. Before him are Beatrice Wood (1893), Paul Kantner (1941), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), Sylvia Sidney (1910), and Mary Mapes Dodge (1831). After him are Samuel Wilson (1766), J. Christopher Stevens (1960), John C. Breckinridge (1821), Allen Iverson (1975), Edwin Catmull (1945), and Paul Gleason (1939).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Ellsworth Kelly ranks 43. Before him are Barbara Kruger (1945), Lawrence Weiner (1942), Evel Knievel (1938), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Sam Francis (1923), and Beatrice Wood (1893). After him are Franz Kline (1910), Maso di Banco (1250), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Benjamin West (1738), James Turrell (1943), and Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847).

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