In 1963, a year after moving to New York City from North Carolina, Kenneth Noland began to experiment with a chevron motif of different bands of color and shaped canvases like this one. Although the rigid geometry prevalent in these paintings suggests an almost mechanical precision, splatters of paint in the upper portion of this work emphasize the gestural aspect of its creation. Noland’s use of thinned paint was inspired almost a decade earlier by a visit to Helen Frankenthaler’s studio in New York, where her “soak-stain” technique was making waves among her Abstract Expressionist peers. Like Frankenthaler, Noland embraced the untreated surface of unprimed canvas, which absorbed thinned paint quickly. The artist referred to such works as “one-shot” paintings, since the thin paint bled easily––as it did in the spaces between the colored bands in this painting.
Details
- Artist Name: Kenneth Noland (American, 1924-2010)
- Title: Color Temperature
- Date: 1964
- Medium: Acrylic resin on canvas
- Dimensions: 101 x 174 in. (256.5 x 442.0 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lionel Warner
- Accession Number: P.1972.07
- Copyright: © Kenneth Noland / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object Information
Pasadena Art Museum, 1972-1975;
Norton Simon Museum.
American Art of the Sixties
- San Francisco Museum of Art, 1967-06-02 to 1967-07-02
Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Rowan
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-09-22 to 1970-11-15
Kenneth Noland - New Work
- New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Inc., 1964-11-10 to 1964-11-28
opening exhibition
- Los Angeles, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, 1965 to
Monumental Paintings of the 60's
- San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1974-04-19 to 1974-06-23
The Chromatic Eye: New York Paintings and Prints from the 1960s
- Norton Simon Museum, 2001-07-20 to 2001-10-22
American Art of the 1950s and 1960s from the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988-08-11 to 1994-04-03
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974
- Norton Simon Museum, 1999-02-07 to 1999-06-06
- Armory Center for the Arts, 1999-02-07 to 1999-04-11
- Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.), 1999-02-07 to 1999-04-25
- Time, p. 44
- Arts, p. 46
- Waldman, Diane, Kenneth Noland, A Retrospective, p. 37
- Agee, William C., Pasadena Museum of Modern Art Annual Report, 1973,
- Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Monumental Paintings of the 60s, 1974, repro.
- The Fine Arts Gallery San Diego, Modern Paintings of the 60's, 1974,
- Moffett, Kenneth, Kenneth Noland, 1977,
- Asher, Gerald, Gourmet Magazine, 1986, p. 62
- Armory Center for the Arts/Art Center College of Design, Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, 1999, p. 90
- Art Center College of Design, Art Center College of Design Exhibitions: Twenty Years, 2001, p. 43
- Humblet, Claudine, La Nouvelle Abstraction Américaine 1950-1970, 2003, Vol. I p. 624
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