Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement .
He was one of the best - known American Color Field painters , although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter .
one helped establish the Washington Color School movement .
He was one of the best - known American Color Field painters , although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter .