Kenneth Noland, 1924 – 2010

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Kenneth Noland, Split, 1959, acrylic on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift from the Vincent Melzac Collection, 1980.6.2
Nancy
January 7, 2010

American art lost one of its finest painters on Tuesday: Kenneth Noland died at age 85 at his home in Maine. A native of North Carolina, much of Noland's work was part of the Color Field school, a movement that emerged from Abstract Expressionism in the United States in the 1950s. American Art is proud to have six works by Noland in its collection, one of which is presently on display at the museum's Luce Foundation Center. Noland was also part of the museum's 2008 exhibition, Color as Field.

 

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