Kenneth Noland, Themes and Variations 1958-2000 (hand signed by Kenneth Noland), 2002

Kenneth Noland

Themes and Variations 1958-2000 (hand signed by Kenneth Noland), 2002

Softback monograph with stiff wraps (hand signed and dated by Kenneth Noland)

Official hand signed copy from the Farnsworth Museum, Maine (with museum sticker verso)

9 × 11 × 1/2 inches

Unframed

Provenance
Farnsworth Museum, Maine (official signed copy)

Official hand signed copy from the Farnsworth Museum, Maine (with museum label on the verso). Noland only signed a very small number of these catalogues for the museum.

This elegant softback monograph with stiff wraps was published on the occasion of the traveling museum exhibition from March 1 to June 14, 2002 at Naples Museum of Art and June 30 to October 13, 2002 at The Farnsworth Art Museum.
Official hand signed copy from the Farnsworth Museum, Maine (with museum sticker verso)
Book information:
Publisher:‎ Farnsworth Art Museum; 0 edition (January 1, 2002)
English; Paperback; 71 pages with color illustrations

About Kenneth Noland:
Kenneth Noland was a primary force in the development of postwar abstract art and color field painting.
He attended Black Mountain College in the late forties, exhibiting an early interest in the emotional effects of color and geometric forms. His commitment to line and color can be traced throughout his prolific oeuvre, including his Circle paintings and extending through a visual language of chevrons, diamonds, horizontal bands, plaid patterns, and shaped canvases.

In 1977 a major traveling retrospective of the artist’s work was presented by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In response, late art critic of The New York Times Hilton Kramer wrote, “An art of this sort places a very heavy burden on the artist’s sensibility for color, of course—on his ability to come up, again and again, with fresh and striking combinations that both capture and sustain our attention, and provide the requisite pleasures…Mr. Noland is unquestionably a master.” The exhibition traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, before closing at the Denver Art Museum.

Courtesy of Pace Gallery