Kenneth Noland (b. Asheville, North Carolina, 1924) is perhaps best-known for his series of "target paintings" that he began in 1956. Noland studied at Black Mountain College and with Ossip Zadkine in Paris. His works are on display at the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modem Art, the National Gallery of Art and numerous other museums throughout the nation. An offset lithograph of Kenneth Noland's Beginning, originally painted in 1958, was created to celebrate and promote the 1974 opening of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The original painting hangs in the Hirshhorn collection.