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GEORGE McNEIL
(1908-1995)
| Education: Pratt Institute Art Students League Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts Columbia University Selected Teaching Positions: 1937 Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art 1946-1948 University of Wyoming at Laramie 1948-1981 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 1957-1957 University of California at Berkeley 1966-1981 New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, New York Selected Fellowships and Awards: 1963 Ford Foundation Purchase Award 1967 National Council on the Arts Awards 1969 Guggenheim Fellow 1971 Tamarind Institute, Artist-in-Residence. Also 1975, 1976, 1984. 1982 American Academy of Arts and Letters. Elected member 1989. 1985 Avery Chairperson, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, The Bard College Center 1985 Honorary Doctor of Fine Art, Pratt Institute 1988 Honorary Doctor of Fine Art, Maryland Institute College of Art Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1941 Lyceum Gallery, Havana, Cuba. 1950 Charles Egan Gallery, New York. 1952 Charles Egan Gallery, New York. Hendler Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1953 Charles Egan Gallery, New York. Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. 1954 Charles Egan Gallery, New York. 1956 De Young Museum, San Francisco, California. 1957 Poindexter Gallery, New York. 1959 Poindexter Gallery, New York. 1960 Howard Wise Gallery, New York. 1962 Howard Wise Gallery, New York. 1964 Howard Wise Gallery, New York. 1966 University of Texas at Austin. Great Jones Gallery, New York. 1967 Howard Wise Gallery, New York. 1969 Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa. 1973 Pratt-Manhattan Center, New York. 1975 Landmark Gallery, New York. 1977 Berman Gallery, New York. 1979 Dintenfass Gallery, New York. 1981 Gruenebaum Gallery, New York. 1982 George McNeil: Paintings and Prints, Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs, March 22–April 16, 1982. George McNeil: The Past Twenty Years, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, December 6–31, 1982. Catalogue essay by Carter Ratcliff. 1983 Gruenebaum Gallery, New York. 1984 George McNeil: Expressionism 1954–1984, September 22–November 10, Artists’ Choice Museum, New York. 1985 Kasmin Knoedler Gallery, London, UK. Gruenebaum Gallery, New York. State University of New York at Binghamton. George McNeil Abstractscapes, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 1986 Carlson Art Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. 1987 Gruenebaum Gallery, New York. 1989 Joceloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut. Knoedler Gallery, New York. 1991 Hirschl & Adler Modem, New York. George McNeil: Three Decades of Prints, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey. 1992 Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California. 1993 New York Studio School, New York. Catalogue essay by Donald Kuspit. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. 1994 ACA Galleries, New York. 1996 Nardin Galleries, Somers, New York. 1998 ACA Galleries, New Yark. 1999 George McNeil: The Late Paintings 1980–1995, The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York May 23–August 22; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, September 20–November 1. Catalogue essays by Eleanor Heartney and Johathan Sandofer. 2002 George McNeil: Bathers, Dancers and Abstracts, ACA Galleries, New York, April 13–May 11, 2002; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, June 14–July 21. Catalogue essays by Peter Selz, Lillian Orlowsky, Paul Resika and Helen McNeil. George McNeil Abstractscapes, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, May 6–June 11, 2002. 2003 Luise Ross Gallery, New York March 6–May 3, 2003. 2005 Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York. 2006 George McNeil: At Midcentury, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, January 12–February 18, 2006. 2008 George McNeil: Paintings from the 1950s & 1960s, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, October 17 – November 15, 2008. 2010 George McNeil: The Women, 1938-1972, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, January 15- March 6, 2010. Selected Group Exhibitions: 1939 American Art Today, New York World’s Fair. 1947 Abstract and Surrealist American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago. November 6, 1947–January 11, 1948. 1950 Post-Abstract Painting 1950: France-America, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 6–September 4, 1950. 1951 Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, Museum of Modern Art, New York. 9th Street Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, New York May 21–June 10, 1951. 1953 Whitney Museum Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Stable Gallery, New York. 1954 Third Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Stable Gallery, New York, January 26–February 20, 1954. 1955 Fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Stable Gallery, New York, April 26–May 21, 1955. Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Drawings, Watercolors and Small Oils, Poindexter Gallery, December 19, 1955–January 7, 1956. 1956 American Abstract Artists, Riverside Museum, New York, April 8-May 20, 1956. 1957 Whitney Museum Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 1958 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. 1959 Work of Twenty-Five years by Five Contemporary Painters, Camino Gallery, New York. Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York. George McNeil and Michael Loew, Rutgers University Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 1960 Contemporary American Painting, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, January 14–February 18, 1960. 1961 Whitney Museum Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Contemporary Paintings Selected from 1960-61 New York Gallery Exhibitions, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Some Contemporary American Artists, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. American Abstract Artists and Imagists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. 66th Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, circulated by USIA in Latin America, 1961–62. Joint exhibition with Stephen Pace, Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1962 Continuity and Change, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut. 66th American Exhibition, Paris, France, circulated by the Art Institute of Chicago. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1963 Directions: Paintings USA, San Francisco Museum, California. Art in Embassies, circulated by Museum of Modern Art, New York City. 1964 Recent American Paintings, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas. 1965 Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. 1966 Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Nov 6–Dec 16, 1966. 1967 The New York Painter: A Century of Painting: Morris-Hofmann, Marlborough Gallery, New York. 1968 Painting as Painting, The Art Museum of the University of Texas at Austin, February 18–April 1, 1968. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 1969 The New American Painting: the First Generation, Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1972 Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York. 1977 American Abstract Artists, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1983 The Painterly Figure, Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, New York. 1984 Emotional Impact: New York School Figurative Expressionism, Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco, curator April Kingsley: traveled 1984–6 Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage Alaska; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, University Art Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Oklahoma; Beaumont Art Center, Beaumont, Texas; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas. 1985 Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Exhibition of Avery Professors, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College Center, Annandale on Hudson, New York. Visiting Artists, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. Survival of the Fittest, Ingber Gallery, New York City. 1986 38th Annual Purchase Exhibition, Hassam and Speicher Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City. American Masters: Works on Paper, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Hans Hofmann and his Legacy, Level Meyerson Galleries, New York City. Obscure Guerilla Chieftains of the Hemisphere, Area X Gallery, New York City. Elders of the Tribe, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, December 2, 1986–January 3, 1987; between January 1987–June 1988 exhibition travels to ten other museum venues. 1987 Working in Brooklyn Painting, Brooklyn Museum, New York, June–September. 1988 Enduring Creativity, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stanford, Connecticut, April I–June 15, 1988. The Figurative Fifties, travelling exhibition, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California. 1989 Face Off, Edward Thorpe Gallery, New York. 1990 The Provocative Years 1935–45, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts. 1991 Smith Collects Contemporary, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts. 1992 Big Paintings, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona. 1994 Paths of Abstraction: Painting in New York 1944-81, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York. 1996 Abstract Expressionism in the United States, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico, D.F. curated and with catalogue essay by Irving Sandler. 1999 Joint exhibition with Leon Golub, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York. July, 1999. 2000 Forum Forty-Nine Revisited, exhibition Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts. 2001 The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 22–June 17, 2001. 2002–'03 Meditations on the Human Spirit, traveling exhibition organized by Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C. Provincetown Painters, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002. 2003 Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. The New York School, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts. 2005 Provincetown Painters, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts. Artwork From the Collection of William Freed & Lillian Orlowsky, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts. 2006 Making it New: George McNeil & His Students, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts, August 28 - October 28, 2006. 2007 Figuratively Speaking, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, March 23 – April 28, 2007. 2008 The Art of Gesture, David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York, New York, April 8-29, 2008. Summer Salon, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, June 27 – August 16, 2008. Works on Paper, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, November 21 – December 23, 2008. 2009 Gallery Selections, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, New York, January 15 - March 7, 2009. Days Lumberyard Studios, Provincetown, 1915-1972, ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, May 15 – August 22, 2009. Hans Hofmann & George McNeil, Morrison Gallery, Kent Connecticut, December 12, 2009 - January 31, 2010. 2010 American Modernists in Wyoming: George McNeil, Ilya Bolotowsky, and Leon Kelly, University of Wyoming Art Museum, January 30 - August 7, 2010. Days Lumberyard Studios, 1914-1972, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, July 10 – August 3, 2010. Selected Public Collections: Alcoa Collection of Modern Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York. Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Arosley, New York. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. DuPont Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. Exxon Corporation, New York City. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockport, Maine. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England. Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gray Art Gallery, New York University, New York. Huntington Art Gallery, James Michener Collection, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan. Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California (dispersed). Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, New York. Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey. North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Northern Michigan University Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan. Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California. Philip Morris Corporation, New York. Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, Massachusetts. Smithsonian Institute Print Collection, Washington, DC. Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri. University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts. Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. |