About Kenneth Noland

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    Following is the New York Times obituary of the artist:

    Kenneth Noland, Abstract Painter of Brilliantly Colored Shapes, Dies at 85

    By WILLIAM GRIMES
    Published: January 6, 2010

    Kenneth Noland, whose brilliantly colored concentric circles, chevrons and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field painting, died Tuesday at his home in Port Clyde, Me. He was 85. The cause was cancer, said his wife, Paige Rense, the editor in chief of Architectural Digest.

    Mr. Noland arrived on the scene in the immediate aftermath of Abstract Expressionism. A student of the geometric abstractionists Josef Albers and Ilya Bolotowsky, h...

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