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  • George McNeil

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    Art Brokerage: George McNeil American Artist: b. 1908-1995. George McNeil (February 22, 1908 - January 11, 1995) was an American abstract expressionist painter. George McNeil was born in Queens, New York on February 22, 1908, the youngest child of an Irish Catholic working-class family. From the Cubist-influenced compositions of his earlier Hofmann student years, McNeil moved to full abstraction by 1936. His early 1950s paintings were: “both abstract and expressionist” with an active surface “ very moving, full of feeling, emotional” displaying the “painterly touch” that was identified with the artists exhibiting at the Charles Egan Gallery. His paintings remained fully abstract until the early 1960s when figures and faces began to appear in the abstract field, particularly in the “Dancer” and “Bather” series. From 1980, dynamic situations such as discos, New York City, football, street life or graffiti activate his paintings. His work is characterized by profound attention to color and complex abstract volumes. In the 1980s his work enjoyed a renaissance of attention and influence. From 1970-1991 McNeil made lithographs which he printed on his own press or at the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, where he was invited four times in the 1980s. From 1946-48 McNeil taught at the University of Wyoming. In 1948 he became Director of the Evening Art School at the Pratt Institute, where he hired several of his fellow New York School artists such as Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Reuben Nakian, Milton Resnick, Jack Tworkov and others. He taught undergraduate art history and then painting in the M.F.A. program to 1981, and taught at the New York Studio School 1966-81. His teaching influenced generations of young artists including Robert Wilson, Thomas Nozkowski and Maxine Yalowitz-Blankenship. He also taught at Skowhegan and the Vermont Studio School.

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