Word: noland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...permanent collection includes major works by Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Kenneth Noland and so on. Somehow, the best modern and contemporary art museum in New England is something of a secret. Besides a collection that includes work by just about all of anyone's favorite artists of the latter 20th century, the Rose boasts a remarkable exhibition progra.m. of contemporary...
...teacher," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a statement. "When I first met him in the early 1960s, he was encouraging graduate students and junior faculty members to view the Fogg as a place to pursue their interest in [for example] Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Anthony Caro, and Kenneth Noland--as well as in the Mannerists, in 20th-century photographers, and in Dutch and Flemish print makers. This wise eclectic spirit nurtured the Museum, and infused the Department, in a way that allowed individuals and the University to flourish together...
...least among students of mygeneration, will be his trust in students whowished to work with the museum and who wanted tobring contemporary art into its collections. Itwas typical of John that he encouraged the youngscholar Michael Fried to mount a provocativeexhibition of recent American painting, ThreeAmerican Painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski,Frank Stella (1965) and to publish what quicklybecame the signal statement on the new paintings'style and purpose. At the same time, he acquiredfor the Fogg our first paintings by thatgeneration, Morris Louis' Color Barrier and BlueVeil, and Kenneth Noland's Hover and Karma (giftof the artist...
...whole, well chosen -- decadent though they may look in Beijing. But the historical structure is lame-brained because it ignores a vein of American art in the early 1960s that, though out of favor today, has a solid claim to inclusion: abstract color-field painting. Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis do not appear and might never have existed. Instead the narrative goes straight from Abstract Expressionism...
...both inevitable and justified. And yet color-field painting did produce some very beautiful and rigorous works, and it is hard to see how an exhibition that includes six Jasper Johnses and five Andy Warhols could not have found room for a Morris Louis Unfurled or a Kenneth Noland target...