Kenneth Noland

1924–2010

In Tate Liverpool

Constellations: Reconfiguring American Abstraction

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Biography

Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American Color Field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement. In 1977, he was honored by a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York that then traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. and Ohio's Toledo Museum of Art in 1978. In 2006, Noland's Stripe Paintings were exhibited at the Tate in London.

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Artworks

Kenneth Noland Drought

1962

T00763

Kenneth Noland Gift

1961–2

On display at Tate Liverpool part of Constellations T00898

Kenneth Noland Another Line

1970

T01686

Features

Tate Etc

Private View: Kenneth Noland's Gift 1961–2

Alex Taylor

The painting, now in the Tate collection, once hung above the desk of modernist critic Clement Greenberg – and was ...

Art Term

Black Mountain College

Black Mountain College was a highly influential college founded at Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA, in 1933 where teaching was ...

Art Term

Washington Color School

The Washinton Color School was an art movement founded by Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland that emerged in the late ...

In Focus

Gift 1961–2 by Kenneth Noland

Alex Taylor

Given by the artist to prominent art critic Clement Greenberg, Gift exemplifies Greenberg’s taste for high modernist abstraction. This ...

In Focus

Centres of Energy

Mollie R. Berger

Mollie R. Berger on Noland’s obsession with centrality and balance, part of a Tate Research In Focus project on ...

Photograph taken by Alexander Liberman of a gathering at his home c.1965

Tate Papers

Art World, Network and Other Alloway Keywords

Courtney J. Martin

The British critic Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990) generated a new vocabulary for American art of the 1960s and 1970s. This ...

Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Portrait of Lawrence Alloway 1965

Tate Papers

Tate Papers no.16: Autumn 2011

British-born Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990) was a leading member of the Independent Group in the 1950s before moving in 1961 ...

Tate Papers

Mapping the Field: Lawrence Alloway’s Art Criticism-as-Information

Stephen Moonie

Lawrence Alloway claimed that the art critic should avoid explicit value judgements and instead provide information. This paper historicises Alloway ...