Kenneth Noland 1924-2010

by Bill Davenport January 6, 2010

Color field painter Kenneth Noland died Tuesday at his home in Maine. He was 85. Championed by Clement Greenberg in the late 50’s as a successor to the abstract expressionists, Noland’s cool, color-filled geometry became a symbol and bone of contention in the see-saw struggles over painting, formalism and dominance in the New York art world over three decades. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presented Kenneth Noland: The Nature of Color, a survey of four decades of Noland’s works, in 2004.

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