Last night while walking through MIA-ARTFAIR I stopped to examine some designer carpets, one designed by Kenneth Noland. It brought to mind his brand of lean abstraction in painting. I hadn’t see his carpets before but as a textile designed artifact, it was very nice and wouldn’t overpower furniture or paintings in a room.

Kenneth Noland, 85; abstract painter, a founder of Washington Color School:

“Kenneth Noland, an influential abstract painter who was a founder of the Washington Color School of painting, the only major development in 20th-century art to originate in the District, died Jan. 5 of kidney cancer at his home in Port Clyde, Maine. He was 85.”

(Via Wash Post Obituaries.)