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Kenneth Noland

1961

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Faithful Unto Death (Taps), William Gilbert Gaul, oil on canvas
This a bust-length portrait of a man with long sideburns, wavy brown hair and gray eyes, who gazes directly at the viewer. In his right hand, he holds a mahlstick; in his left hand, he holds a painter's palette, loaded with oil paint, and five brushes. In the foreground, a smoking pipe, two tubes of oil paint, and an open artist's box (containing several tubes of paint and a palette knife) rest on a table. In the background to the left, a blank canvas rests on an easel (only the bottom left rung of the easel is visible).
nude figures
Composition with black and white vertical lines, a red square upper right, and white square lower right.