[1] He attended Princeton University, where he befriended Frank Stella and Michael Fried, who were also interested in minimalist abstraction.
[2] Clement Greenberg included Bannard in the exhibition Post-Painterly Abstraction at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1964.
The critic Phyllis Tuchman wrote about a 2015 exhibition of these works at Berry Campbell Gallery, "These colors are still radiant.
"[6] In the late 1960s the forms dissolved into pale, atmospheric fields of color applied with rollers and paint-soaked rags.
He curated and wrote the catalog for the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the paintings of Hans Hofmann at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.[10] Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art, a collection of his thoughts edited by Franklin Einspruch, was published in 2022.