As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

In these paintings the edges of the canvas become as structurally important as the center. Schiffer. In 1949 he had his first solo exhibition: Kenneth Noland at the Galerie Creuze in Paris.

and the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio in 1978. In 1977 he was honored by a major retrospective at the Solomon R.