Guggenheim Museum to mount tribute in honor of Asheville-born Kenneth Noland

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Here’s the story from artinfo.com:

NEW YORK—“Kenneth Noland has become a ‘name,’” the polemical art critic Clement Greenberg wrote in 1963. He was right, at the time. After languishing in the shadow of his bombastic Abstract Expressionist forefathers, Noland’s geometric abstractions had finally begun to enter museum collections and win admirers. And yet, today Noland — who died earlier this year — is hardly a widely-known figure.

Now the Guggenheim Museum is prepared to shine a bit more light on Noland’s legacy, announcing today that it will open “Kenneth Noland, 1924–2010: A Tribute,” in its Thannhauser Gallery, on May 21. The show will feature four of Noland’s most important paintings: And Half (1959), which features his trademark concentric circles; Trans Shift (1964), with his distinctive chevron figure; The Time (1967); and Strand (1981), which is painted on a shaped canvas.