The present work arrives from the Estate of Molly Turner, who was an Emmy Award-winning news reporter in Florida. Turner became the state's first female anchorwoman in 1960, after beginning her career in 1951 at South Florida’s first TV station, WTVJ. Turner worked with WPLG-Channel 10 from 1969 to 1988, a period in which she became the station's first consumer affairs reporter and received three Emmy Awards for her investigative reporting. As the Miami Herald reported, a former employee of WPLG once observed of Turner, “She had style and grace, but you would do well not to misconstrue that, because she was hard-nosed and driving in her job—she just did it with a touch of class.” Turner passed away in 2016 at the age of 93.
Ellsworth Kelly 1923–2015
American minimalist painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly rendered his surroundings into abstract, essential shapes and varying planes of color and empty space. After studying at the Pratt Institute in New York, he was deployed to France during World War II, where his fascination with Paris and European artists was first sparked. While in France, Kelly surrounded himself with like-minded artists including Alexander Calder and began to develop his iconic style through paintings and collages “that were arranged according to the laws of chance.” In 1954, he returned to the U.S. and gained immediate success at New York gallery shows where he exhibited his geometric, minimalist paintings and totemic sculptures. Kelly earned his first retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1973, and has since been the subject of retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Tate Modern in London.
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