Kenneth "Ken" Noland
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.
FOCUS
Art/ Design/ Craft
ROLE
Student
ATTENDANCE
1946 - 1950
BIRTH
1924-04-10
Asheville, NC
DEATH
2010-01-05
Saint George, ME
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
