Editing Kenneth Noland (section)

==Early life and education==
A son of Harry Caswell Noland (1896–1975), a [[pathologist]], and his wife, Bessie (1897–1980), Kenneth Clifton Noland was born in [[Asheville]], [[North Carolina]]. He had four siblings: David, Bill, Neil, and Harry Jr.<ref>Parents' names and siblings from ancestry.com, found in 1930 North Carolina federal census as well as the North Carolina birth register listing of Noland's birth. Records accessed on 7 January 2010.</ref><ref>Noland's younger brother Neil (born 1927) became a sculptor, and like his brother Kenneth, he studied art at [[Black Mountain College]], as did Noland's brother Harry.</ref>

Noland enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1942 after completing high school. As a veteran of [[World War II]], he took advantage of the [[G.I. Bill]] to study art at [[Black Mountain College]] in his home state of North Carolina.<ref>Obituaries state Noland was drafted in 1942 and served until 1946. An official enlistment record, however, states Noland, then 20, joined the Army Air Corps Reserves as a private at Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi, on 24 May 1944. The record was accessed on ancestry.com on 7 January 2010.</ref> At Black Mountain, where two of his brothers also studied art, Noland studied with [[Ilya Bolotowsky]], a professor who introduced him to [[neoplasticism]] and the work of [[Piet Mondrian]]. Noland also studied [[Bauhaus]] theory and color there under [[Josef Albers]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844770,00.html?promoid=googlep|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102182719/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844770,00.html?promoid=googlep|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 2, 2012|title=Painting: Bold Emblems|date=18 April 1969|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> and became interested in [[Paul Klee]]—specifically Klee's sensitivity to color.<ref name="Grimes, William (2010)">{{cite news |last1=Grimes |first1=William |title=Kenneth Noland April 10, 1924 - Jan. 5, 2010 Abstract Painter Favored Brightly Colored Shapes |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=January 23, 2010 |location=Pittlsburgh, Pennsylvania |page=B.3}}</ref>