Ellsworth Kelly, a renowned American abstract artist, died on Sunday at the age of 92, NBC News reported.
Kelly died of natural causes at his home in Spencertown, New York, according to Matthew Marks of the Matthew Marks Gallery who said that Kelly's partner, Jack Shear, informed him of his passing.
Kelly started his career in France where he studied art on the GI Bill after serving in the U.S. military during World War II. He went on to establish himself as a respected abstract artist and the subject of major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
"He was a real American original," Marks said.
