Culture + LifestyleArtist Ellsworth Kelly Dies at Age 92The unorthodox talent was known for his deceptively simple-seeming, often brilliantly colored abstractionsDecember 29, 2015FacebookTwitterPinterestPinterestPhoto: Paul Warchol1/9Three Ellsworth Kelly works in the east bedroom provided key inspiration for Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat, architects and owners of this Shelter Island, New York, home.PinterestPhoto: Robert C. Lautman2/9A Kelly work on paper and a George Rickey mobile add dashes of color to the serene white living room of Tina Alster and Paul Frazer’s Washington, D.C., home designed by Jacobsen Architecture.PinterestPhoto: Oberto Gili3/9Vintage copper pots shimmer in the kitchen of a Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, home decorated by Mark Cunningham, where a Kelly lithograph overlooks a 19th-century tavern table and two antique chairs.PinterestPhoto: Pieter Estersohn4/9Art collectors Amy and John Phelan tapped Manhattan-based Stonefox Architects to renovate and decorate their house in Aspen, Colorado. In the parlor, the abstract paintings are by Kelly, and the silkscreen is an Andy Warhol self-portrait.PinterestPhoto: Björn Wallander5/9A Corten-steel sculpture by Kelly greets visitors inside the front gate of this Miami Beach villa renovated with designer Austin Harrelson.PinterestPhoto: Björn Wallander6/9In the same home, landscape architect Mario Nievera devised the swimming pool, aligning it with a steel totem sculpture that Ellsworth Kelly created specially for the bayfront site.PinterestPhoto: William Waldron7/9The master bedroom of this Connecticut home by Mark Cunningham, painted in a Benjamin Moore beige, includes a large Kelly lithograph.PinterestPhoto: Todd Eberle8/9In Vidal Sassoon’s Bel Air, California, home, a gallery displays works by (from left) Étienne Hajdu, Kelly, and Lucio Fontana.PinterestPhoto: Clarence Williams/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images9/9Kelly photographed in front of one of his huge pieces at Peter Carlson Enterprises in Sun Valley, California.ExploreArt