Photograph included with student application. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Leo Krikorian, Gregory Masurovsky, Al Brody, sitting is Knute Stikes, Kenneth Noland, Stanley Hebel. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
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Kenneth Noland was a student from fall 1946 to spring 1950. Before BMC he attended Lee H. Edwards High School 1939-1942.
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 as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement.
Relationships
Sibling: Fellow BMC student, Harry Noland
Sibling: Fellow BMC student, Massen Noland
Courses Taken
Fall 1946-1947: Chorus with Schlesinger dropped, Introduction to Music with Schlesinger, Harmony with Schlesinger, Drawing and Painting with Bolotowsky, Race Problems with Dr. Miller, A Capella Chorus with Lowinsky.
Spring 1946-1947: Problems of Philosophy with Dehn, Harmony with Schlesinger, Comparison Religion with Dr. Miller, Art Tutorial-Criticism with Bolotowsky, Painting with Bolotowsky
Fall 1947-1948: Painting with Bolotowsky, Drawing with Bolotowsky, Logic with Levy, and Group Process with Wallen.
Spring 1947-1948: Painting with Bolotowsky, Drawing with Bolotowsky, Design with Albers.
Summer 1948: Structure of Music with Cage, Sculpture with Grippe, Color with Albers-dropped, 300 Years of Keyboard Music Lecture Course with Bodky, Shop—dropped.
Summer 1950: Writing with Paul Goodman, Sculpture with Leo Amino, ArtHistory with Clement Greenberg
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