Kenneth Noland

Kenneth Noland was born in 1924 in Asheville, NC. He was an American painter known for being a part of the Color Field painting movement, with influences pulled from Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. He attended BMC from 1946 to 1948 under the G.I. Bill. During his time at BMC he studied with Ilya Bolotowsky and Joseph Albers. He later went on to study in Paris with Ossip Zadkine from 1948 to 1949. He taught at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Catholic University, Washington Workshop Center of the Arts, and Bard College. He has shown in multiple international and national exhibitions including Galerie Raymond Creuze in Paris, France in 1948 and Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico in 1983. The Guggenheim Museum in New York had a retrospective of his work in 1977 that traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio. Noland died in January of 2010.