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GEORGE Mcneil Chronology McNeil p. 1 GEORGE McNEIL Chronology 1910 Born February 22, New York City to Irish-American working-class family. 1922-26 Attends art classes at Brooklyn Museum while studying at Brooklyn Tech High School. Influenced by the museum’s “Societe Anonyme” collection containing works by Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp and Picabia. 1927 Wins New York Art League Scholarship and enters General Art Program, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 1927-32 Studies work by French Modernist artists and copies works in Metropolitan Museum of Art. Attends and is influenced by Vaclav Vytlacil’s lectures at the Art Students’ League, where he studies with Jan Matulka. Becomes acquainted with Arshile Gorky. 1932-36 Studies with Hans Hofmann, first at Art Students’ League, then at Hofmann’s own school. Begins to develop his own theories of modern art. Friends with Mercedes (Carles) Matter, Lee Krasner, Ray (Kaiser) Eames, Giorgio Cavallon, Harry Bowden and John Opper. 1935 Joins the W.P.A. and serves on the Federal Art project with artists such as Willem de Kooning and James Brooks. Supported by Burgoyne Diller on Williamsburg Mural Project. 1936 Founder member of American Abstract Artists with Ibram Lassaw, Ilya Bolotowsky, Rosalind Bengelsdorf and others. Combating the rejection of contemporary American abstract art by museums, galleries and critics, the AAA publishes brochures and organizes annual exhibitions of works by members. Marries fellow Hofmann student Dora Tamler. 1936-7 Serves as monitor in Hofmann’s classes and teaches class in collage. 1939 Exhibits in “American Art Today” at the New York World’s Fair, where he is one of only five non-objective artists represented. Named by Stuart Davis as alternate for World’s Fair Committee of Selection. Visits Mexico with Dora McNeil and studies murals. 1940 Visits Cuba for four months. Work reflects Cuban dance and cafe life. 1941 Has one-person exhibition in the Lyceum Gallery, Havana, Cuba. 1941-3. War-related work in factories and as draftsman. Receives Ed. D. from Columbia University. Daughter Helen born 1942 1943-46 Serves in the U.S.Navy. 1946-48 Teaches at the University of Wyoming at Laramie. 1947 Exhibits in “Abstract and Surrealist Art” at Art Institute of Chicago, first large-scale exhibition of contemporary American modern art. 1948-60 Serves as Director of Evening Art Program at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, where he brings in Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Reuben Nakian and others to teach classes. Friendship with Kline. Son James born 1948 McNeil p. 2 1950 Has one person exhibition at the Charles Egan Gallery, New York, a gallery featuring emerging Abstract Expressionist artists such as Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Franz Kline and Robert de Niro Sr. 1951 Participates in group exhibition “Abstract Art in America” at Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1952 Has one person exhibition at the Charles Egan Gallery, New York. 1953 Has one person exhibitions at the Charles Egan Gallery, New York and Brown Gallery, Boston. Participates in the Carnegie International group exhibition in Pittsburgh and in the Whitney Museum Exhibition ( Whitney Annual) in New York. Visits France; attends life drawing class of Andre Lhote at Lhote's school in Montparnasse 1954 Has one person exhibition at the Charles Egan Gallery, New York. mid-late 1950s McNeil’s painting style changes: work remains abstract but uses larger canvases, looser forms and a complex palette. Work exhibited at HCE Gallery Provincetown, MA, where McNeil spends summers 1948-62. 1956 Has one person exhibition at the De Young Museum, San Francisco; teaches at University of California at Berkeley 1956-7. 1957 Has one person exhibition at the Poindexter Gallery, New York. Represented again in Whitney Museum Exhibition. 1958 Joins life-drawing group with Mercedes Matter, Charles Cajori, Sidney Geist and others (through 1970s); group forms genesis of the New York Studio School. 1959 Has one person exhibition at the Poindexter Gallery, New York. 1960s-70s McNeil introduces figural elements to his continuing expressionist style; teaches Art History in undergraduate Pratt Institute Program and painting in MA program. 1960 Has one person exhibition at Howard Wise Gallery. 1961 Has one person exhibition at Nova Gallery, Boston; participates in “ Abstract Expressionists and Imagists,” group exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; again participates in Whitney Annual at Whitney Museum. 1962 Has one person exhibition at Howard Wise Gallery, New York. Participates in group exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. 1963 Receives Ford Foundation Purchase Award. Participates in “ Directions: Painting USA,” group exhibition at the San Francisco Museum, San Francisco. 1964 One person exhibition at Howard Wise Gallery, New York. Begins to spend part of every summer teaching and painting in France (to 1970). 1965 Again participates in Whitney Annual Exhibition. 1966 Has survey exhibition at University of Texas at Austin; has one person exhibition at Great Jones Gallery, New York; participates in Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibition. Receives National Council on the Arts Award. Begins teaching at New York Studio School (to 1980). McNeil p. 3 1968 Has one person exhibition at Howard Wise Gallery: first exhibition of McNeil’s paintings of nudes in the “Dancer” and “Bather” series. 1969 Has residency and one person exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; participates in “New American Painting: The First Generation” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Awarded Guggenheim grant. 1971 Works as Artist in Residence at Tamarind Institute print workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during four invitational trips (1971, 1975, 1976, 1984). Imagery of New Mexican landscape and Native American culture evident in many paintings and lithographs 1970s-80s. 1973 Has one person exhibition at Pratt Manhattan Center, New York. 1975 Has one person exhibition at the Landmark Gallery, New York. 1976 Participates in “Advocates of Abstraction: The American Abstract Artists 1936-1943” at downtown Whitney Museum, New York. 1977 Has one person exhibition at the Berman Gallery, New York. Participates in “ American Abstract Artists” group exhibition, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Figurative works now often represent identifiable dramatic situations. 1979 Has one person exhibition at the Dintenfass Gallery, New York. 1981 Has one person exhibition at the Gruenebaum Gallery, New York; begins “Disco” paintings. 1982 Receives award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Has one person exhibition at University of Connecticut at Storrs; has one person survey exhibition “George McNeil: the Past Twenty years” at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 1983 Has one person exhibition at the Gruenebaum Gallery, New York. Participates in “ The Painterly Figure,” group exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. 1984 Has survey exhibition covering work 1954-84 at Artist’s Choice Museum, New York. 1985 Has one person exhibitions at SUNY at Binghamton, New York; Kasmin Knoedler Gallery, London, UK; and Gruenebaum Gallery, New York. Receives honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute. 1986 Has one person exhibition at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Participates in “American Masters: Works on Paper,” group exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC. Lectures and does critiques in Moscow, Leningrad and Tallinn in connection with an exhibition by the Tamarind Institute sponsored by USIS, becoming the first American abstract artist to be permitted to lecture in the then USSR. 1987 Has one person exhibition at the Gruenebaum Gallery. Participates in group exhibitions “Working in Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Museum of Art; “The Interior Self,” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey; “Elders of the Tribe,” Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York. 1988 Receives honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art. Begins “ graffiti” and topographical paintings celebrating New York and its street life. McNeil p. 4 1989 Has one person exhibition at Knoedler Gallery, New York. Residency at University of Hartford; has one person exhibition at the Joceloff Gallery, University of Hartford. Elected to membership of the American Institute of Arts and Letters. 1990 Teaches Invitational Master Class at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Has survey of lithographs “George McNeil: Three Decades of Prints” at Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey. Wife Dora McNeil dies. 1991 Has one person exhibition at Hirschl and Adler Modern Gallery, New York. 1990s Paintings become overtly psychological and fetishistic. Last lithographs 1991. Paints and revises work through 1994. 1992 Has one person exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles. 1993 Has one person exhibition at the New York Studio School, New York; has one person exhibition at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. 1994 Has one person exhibition at ACA Galleries, New York. 1995 Dies January 11. McNeil p. 5 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. 1961 Nova Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. 1962 Howard
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