They include Willem De Kooning, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Frank Stella.

His contemporaries included Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Ronald Bladen and Shirley Jaffee.

The artists represented here include Joseph Albers, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, Agnes Martin, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella and Ad Reinhardt (oddly, by a 1941 work).

They included Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra and Joseph Kosuth.

Artists whose work is represented include Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Salvador Dalí, Ellsworth Kelly, and Sol LeWitt.

Past recipients have included John Updike, I.M. Pei and Ellsworth Kelly.

His many books include "Ellsworth Kelly," "Stuart Davis" and "The Art of the Real."

Mr. Spence works in an American reductivist tradition that includes Burgoyne Diller, John McLaughlin and Ellsworth Kelly.

By the late 40's, he had moved decisively beyond Mondrian into an unexplored terrain, where his fellow travelers included Myron Stout, Paul Feeley, Ellsworth Kelly and Alexander Liberman.

The favored names include René Magritte, Ellsworth Kelly, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Joan Miró.