Monograph on the American artist Ellsworth Kelly by E.C. Goossen. The noted critic E.C. Goossen, in his presentation of the artist, draws upon numerous conversations with Kelly himself. He retraces the artist's development from the formative years at the Boston Museum School through the wartime experience and on to the six-year stay in paris. he takes up the stages in the artist's subsequent career in New York, where by the late 1950s Kelly was already recognized as an artist of major stature. Goossen gives detailed analyses of some thirty canvases. Tracing the sources of these works, he directs our attention not so much to current aesthetic styles as to the world of Kelly's immediate experience : specific forms in nature, especially plants and birds; the shapes of pipes and chimneys on city walls; the strong, calm outlines of Mediterranean architecture; even the patterns of wartime camouflage. Formalist criticism alone, the author contends, can give only an inadequate account of Kelly's work, and he has freely invoked the artist's life, his travels, and his environment to provide a richly informative and illuminating study." -- from interior flap. Includes notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. Printed in color and black-and-white.