Accession Code: wu0642 Title: Untitled (Red/Blue) Date completed: 1964 Medium: Prints Material: Screenprint Height (mm): 630 Width (mm): 527 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Blind stamped with publishers mark, lower right Location Name: Radcliffe House Location Description: Teaching Centre Location Floor: 1

This small screenprint exhibits all the qualities for which Kelly is known, the perfectly flat surface emphasising the essential power of shape and colour.

The print is part of a portfolio of 10 screenprints, published in an edition of 500 by Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut. These prints by leading American artists of the 1960s, demonstrate how appropriate the medium was for the hard edged style of post-painterly abstraction. The prints were commissioned by Sam Wagstaff, Curator of the Wadsworth Athenaeum. He said that he wanted people 'to get as big a hunk of the current aesthetic as they could as cheaply as possible'. Wagstaff asked each artist to provide a design; a proof was returned to them for approval and/or adjustment.