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Abstract Painting Master Ellsworth Kelly of Oradell, 92
ORADELL, N.J. -- American abstract painter Ellsworth Kelly, who grew up in Oradell, died Sunday at 92 in his home in Spencertown, N.Y., nj.com reported.
Born in Newburgh, N.Y., in 1923, Kelly and his family moved to Oradell, where he attended public school and his grandmother introduced him to bird-watching at the reservoir, according to nj.com. Later, he wrote that his early interest in nature taught him to “see.”
Kelly left the Pratt Institute to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1943, where he designed silk screen posters used to teach infantry units about concealment technique. After the war, …