Blush
1978
Color lithograph
36 x 30”

Kenneth Noland (1924–2010) was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and died in Port Clyde, Saint George, Maine. He was an American abstract painter and 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. Though his famous motif—concentric circles—often resembles targets, the artist did not consider them as representations, but rather as visual devices to explore pure color. He was interested in the relationship between contrasting or complementary colors, and aimed to remove emotion and gesture from his work. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement.