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Kenneth Noland

1924 - 2010

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Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter. He was 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 as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement. In 1977, he was honored with a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth Noland has received more than 241,021 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Kenneth Noland is the 1,600th most popular painter (down from 1,539th in 2019), the 5,671st most popular biography from United States (up from 6,452nd in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Painter.

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  • 240k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kenneth Noland ranks 1,600 out of 2,023. Before him are Alexey Bogolyubov, Theodoric of Prague, Władysław Ślewiński, Vilho Lampi, Mykhailo Boychuk, and Gonzales Coques. After him are Szymon Czechowicz, Ernest Hébert, Miquel Barceló, Carl Joseph Begas, Gerhard Munthe, and Alex Katz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Kenneth Noland ranks 279. Before him are Sylvia Miles, Sabu Dastagir, Ruth Leuwerik, Jean Bartik, Omero Tognon, and Budge Patty. After him are Anthony Caro, José Lázaro Robles, María Dolores Pradera, Marianne Werner, Inge Sørensen, and Inji Aflatoun. Among people deceased in 2010, Kenneth Noland ranks 231. Before him are Charles Mackerras, Loki Schmidt, Jacqueline de Romilly, George C. Williams, Robert Byrd, and Jyoti Basu. After him are Brian G. Marsden, Dezső Bundzsák, Chushiro Hayashi, Harry Vos, Galimzyan Khusainov, and Jonathan Motzfeldt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kenneth Noland ranks 5,671 out of 20,380. Before him are JoBeth Williams (1948), Gavin MacLeod (1931), George Saling (1909), Harry Morgan (1915), Carl Lumbly (1951), and Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856). After him are Anita Borg (1949), Forrest Smithson (1884), Henry Knox (1750), Paul Sweezy (1910), Roger Sherman (1721), and Emerson Spencer (1906).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Kenneth Noland ranks 75. Before him are Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847), Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837), Alice Pike Barney (1857), Charles Demuth (1883), Joan Mitchell (1925), and Ad Reinhardt (1913). After him are Alex Katz (1927), Mark Tobey (1890), Robert Henri (1865), Chuck Close (1940), John William Casilear (1811), and Frederic Remington (1861).

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