Editing Kenneth Noland (section)

==Personal life==
Noland was married to:<ref>Writer, artist, and arts administrator Michael Fallon has claimed that his maternal grandmother, Billie Ruth Sinclair (7 July 1925 - 2008), was Noland's first wife and that their brief marriage took place in Asheville, North Carolina in the mid-1940s. He wrote about the marriage in a 2007 essay on the website of Minnesota Artists (mnartists.org), a joint project of the [[Walker Arts Center]] and the [[McKnight Foundation]].{{cite web|url=http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid%3D13691 |access-date=January 7, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928142453/http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=13691 |archive-date=September 28, 2011 }} A search on ancestry.com on 7 January 2010 revealed Kenneth C. Noland's Army Air Corps enlistment record, dated 24 May 1944, at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mississippi, in which Pvt. Noland declares his marital status as "married", though the name of his wife is not listed.</ref>

* Cornelia Langer, a daughter of the U.S. senator from [[North Dakota]] [[William Langer]]. They married in 1950 and divorced in 1957.<ref name="Hainley Artforum 2019">{{cite journal |last1=Hainley |first1=Bruce |author1-link=Bruce Hainley |title=The Picture of Little C.N. in a Prospect of Horrors |journal=[[Artforum]] |date=January 2019 |volume=57 |issue=5 |url=https://www.artforum.com/features/bruce-hainley-on-the-art-of-cady-noland-241601/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |url-access=limited }}</ref> They had three children: daughters [[Cady Noland|Cady]] and Lyndon (a.k.a. Lyn) and a son, William.<ref>Noland's children have followed in their father's artistic footsteps. [[Cady Noland]] (born 1956) is an installation artist and [[Conceptual art|Conceptual]] sculptor, Lyn Noland is a sculptor and [[Emmy award]]-winning camerawoman, and William Langer Noland is a photographer and sculptor and serves as an associate professor of the visual arts at [[Duke University]].</ref><ref>''Current Biography Yearbook 1972'', page 330</ref>
* Stephanie Gordon, a psychologist, lived with Noland from November 1964 until June 1970. They married in April 1967 and divorced in June 1970.<ref>''World Artists, 1950-1980'' (H. W. Wilson, 1980), page 626</ref>
* Peggy L. Schiffer, an art historian. They married circa 1970, and had a son, Samuel Jesse.<ref>Matt Schudel, "Kenneth Noland, 85: Abstract Painter, a founder of Washington Color School", ''The Washington Post'', 7 January 2010</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010604913.html|title=Kenneth Noland, 85; abstract painter, a founder of Washington Color School|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref>"Painting: Bold Emblems", ''Time'', 18 April 1969</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844770,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081214144331/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844770,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 14, 2008|title=Painting: Bold Emblems|date=18 April 1969|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref>
* [[Paige Rense]], editor in chief of ''[[Architectural Digest]]'', whom he married in [[Bennington, Vermont]], on April 10, 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/13/garden/finding-sleaze-amid-the-chintz.html|title=Finding Sleaze Amid the Chintz|date=13 March 1997|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>Date and place of marriage established through ancestry.com and viewing of the ''Vermont Marriage Index, 1989-2001''.</ref> Noland was her fourth husband; her previous spouses included [[Arthur F. Rense]].

Noland had an affair in the 1960s with artist and socialite [[Mary Pinchot Meyer]].<ref>Sally Bedell Smith, ''Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House'' (Random House, 2005), page 234</ref>