This work is recorded with the Kenneth Noland Foundation as No Number, a common designation for the artist's early works.

Provenance:

Collection of the Artist

Purchased from the above by Martha Roberts, Washington D.C., c. 1950

Thence by familial descent to David Stanley, Montana

Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005

Literature:

Kenworth Moffett and Kenneth Noland, Kenneth Noland, H. N. Abrams, 1977, p. 23, illus. (in a black & white photograph of Kenneth Noland in his studio, c. 1952, hanging on the wall behind him)