Kenneth Noland (American, 1924-2010)
American color field painter who helped establish the Washington Color School movement, Noland was born in Ashville, North Carolina, and attended the renowned Black Mountain College there in the late 1940s. His work is characterized by hard-edged paintings and his interest in the emotional effects of both color and geometric forms. His visual vocabulary consists primarily of lines, chevrons, circles, diamonds, horizontal bands, plaid patterns, and shaped canvases. A major retrospective of his work was organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1977 and examples of his work are in major museums and private collections.
