Solar Bound

“In his horizontal paintings, Noland's alignment of the stripe with the top and bottom edges of the canvas was simple yet revolutionary. ...Extension, proportion, measured interval, addition, echoes, and repetitions made these some of the most abstract of pictures. They could succeed at many scales, from slender extensions to massive complex giants. At best they're grand classic masterpieces, equivalent in their way, to the great Pollock drip paintings and the Louis veils.”
—T. Fenton, “Kenneth Noland,” in Kenneth Noland: An Important Exhibition of Paintings from 1958 through 1989, exh. cat., New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1989, p. 11.