Noland Family History & Genealogy

HOME / NEIL NOLAND Neil Noland was born in Asheville, NC, and attended famed Black Mountain College, where he received formal education in various art media, including drawing, sculpture and ceramics. On the G.I. Bill, he traveled to Paris and Madrid before returning to the U.S. - first to New York City then to Vermont and Amagansett, following his diagnosis with tuberculosis in 1966. Known for embuing sculpture with painterly qualities, Noland's work often finds purpose in his fierce concern for environmental issues. In Amagansett, Neil Noland lived and worked on Oak Lane, directly across from Stuart's Seafood, and bayman Stuart Vorphal frequently loaned his time and talents helping Noland create his work. Neil Noland Sculptor Was 86 By Star Staff | October 3, 2013 - 10:19am Neil Noland, a sculptor and former Amagansett resident, died of cancer on Sept. 25 at the age of 86, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. For the past several years he had been living in Sarasota, near his son, Robin Bond Noland. Mr. Noland, one of five sons of Bessie and Harry Noland, was born in Asheville, N.C., on April 27, 1927. He attended Black Mountain College in Lake Eden, N.C., where the study of art was considered central to a liberal arts education, and served in the Navy before moving to Paris and Madrid for further study on the G.I. Bill. He moved in 1953 to New York City, living and working there until 1965, when he spent a year at Bennington College in Vermont as an assistant to the British sculptor Anthony Caro. Diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1966 and hospitalized for a year, he worked after his recovery for the painter Kenneth Noland, his older brother, at the painter’s studio in Vermont. From 1977 until the late 1990s, Neil Noland lived and worked on Oak Lane in Amagansett. During that time he was the workshop director of Sculpture Sites, on Roger Wilcox’s property nearby on Abraham’s Path, and a visiting artist at the University of Miami in Coral Gables. He received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2002. His work has been exhibited at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, the University of North Carolina, and at Guild Hall Museum and the Fine Arts Gallery at Southampton College. Helen Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, wrote that his sculptures, primarily of clay but also in metal and fiberglass, often feature “corrugated surfaces enlivened with subtle coloration.” The critic Phyllis Braff, writing in The Star in 1984, said that “properties of both painting and sculpture are transcended” in his glazed ceramic reliefs, creating a fascinating hybrid. Mr. Noland himself considered his work “a melding of painterly concerns and sculpture. Factors of painting and sculpture can interchange: color areas can appear flat in the picture plane and then read as a physical presence defining shapes and form.” Stuart’s Seafood is across Oak Lane from Mr. Noland’s house, and Stuart Vorpahl often helped him with his sculpture. Once, said Mr. Vorpahl, they got a 10,000-gallon fuel tank from somewhere “and brought it over to Roger Wilcox’s yard, and he laid out the dimensions and I cut everything out in sections with my cut-torches. We worked for weeks over there, welding it together.” In addition to his son, Mr. Noland leaves two grandchildren. His wife, the actress Sudie Bond, died in 1984. A memorial exhibition of his work is planned for 2015 at the Pollock-Krasner House in Springs.

Jane (Noland) Asbell was born in 1786 in Kentucky United States, and died at age 79 years old in 1865. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jane (Noland).

Carrie E Noland of Nashville, Davidson County, TN was born on July 3, 1952, and died at age 51 years old on April 28, 2004.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Van Noland.

Howard Noland was born on September 5, 1908, and died at age 90 years old on September 24, 1998 in Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Benjamin Howard Noland.

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Theresa Van Noland was born to Milton H Van Noland and Diane Ann Van Noland, and has siblings Alison Van Noland, Lisa Van Noland, Paul Van Noland, Catherine Van Noland, and John Van Noland. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Theresa Van Noland.

Lisa Van Noland was born on December 13, 1966 to Milton H Van Noland and Diane Ann Van Noland, and has siblings Alison Van Noland, Theresa Van Noland, Paul Van Noland, Catherine Van Noland, and John Van Noland. Lisa Noland was in a relationship with Jeffery Jay Caraffi, and has children Craig Michael Pitt and Tyler Dean Caraffi. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lisa Van Noland.

Paul Van Noland was born to Milton H Van Noland and Diane Ann Van Noland, and has siblings Alison Van Noland, Lisa Van Noland, Theresa Van Noland, Catherine Van Noland, and John Van Noland. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Paul Van Noland.

Catherine Van Noland was born to Milton H Van Noland and Diane Ann Van Noland, and has siblings Alison Van Noland, Lisa Van Noland, Theresa Van Noland, Paul Van Noland, and John Van Noland. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Catherine Van Noland.

James P Noland of Hattiesburg, Forrest County, MS was born on October 22, 1977, and died at age 28 years old on April 8, 2006.

Ruth Irene Noland of Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff County, NE was born on July 25, 1918, and died at age 91 years old on November 2, 2009 in Scottsbluff.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lawrence Van Noland.

Robin Bond Noland was born to Sudie Bond and Cornelius Massini Noland. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robin Bond Noland.

Juanita (Noland) Query was born in 1926. She was married to James L Query, and they were together until James' death on September 27, 1973. Juanita Query died at age 94 years old in 2020. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Juanita (Noland) Query.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marta June White Noland.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Benjamin John Noland.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sharon E Noland.

Reyna L Noland of TX was born circa 1972. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Reyna L. (Arreguin) Noland.

James Noland of Aliceville, Pickens County, Alabama was born on July 5, 1905, and died at age 73 years old in December 1978.