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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

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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).

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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.

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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 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 Paintings/Lithographs 1977-1979 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, October 16-November 3.

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

McNeil p. 6 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 Modern, 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 "The Expresssive Body: a Memorial Exhibition"ACA Galleries, New York, March 7-March 28.

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 Santlofer.

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. Acme Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, May 6-June 11. Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts June 29-July 14.

2003 Luise Ross Gallery, New York, March 6-May 3.

2005 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, February 3-February 25.

2006 "George McNeil at Mid-Century" Acme Fine Art, Boston January 12-February 18.

2007 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, January 9-February 3.

2008 "Paintings from the 1950s and 1960s" Acme Fine Art, Boston, October 17-November 15.

2010 "The Women: Works on Paper 1938-72" Acme Fine Art, Boston, January 15-March 6.

2011 "TRANS/FIGURE/ATION" Acme Fine Art, Boston January 14- March 5, catalogue essay by Helen McNeil Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, January 8- February 10. Ameringer-McEnery-Yohe, New York Nov 22-Jan 15, 2012.

2015 “About Place: Three Decades of Landscape-inspired Abstraction” Acme Fine Art, Boston, Feb- March 2015.

McNeil p. 7 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 Annual, 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 Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. “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.

1964 “Recent American Paintings,” University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas.

1965 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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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. “The 1930s:Painting and Sculpture in America,” 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. “Print Acquisitions 1974-84,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

1985 “Recent Acquisitions,” Museum of Modern Art, New York. “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.

1986 “38th Annual Purchase Exhibition, Hassam and Speicher Fund,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. “American Masters: Works on Paper,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. “Hans Hofmann and his Legacy,” Lever/Meyerson Galleries, New York. “Obscure Guerrilla Chieftains of the Hemisphere,” Area X Gallery, New York. “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 7, 1987.

1988 “Enduring Creativity,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stanford, Connecticut, April 15-June 15, 1988. “The Figurative Fifties,” traveling 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.

1993 “Spheres of Influence,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut.

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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 "Prints and Paintings: Leon Golub and George McNeil" Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York. July 3- July 25. “The Abstract Tradition,” Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York.

2000 “Forum Forty-Nine” 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.

2002-3 “True Colors: Meditations on the American Spirit,” traveling exhibition organized by Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C.

2003 “Recent Acquisitions,” Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts.

2006 “9th St.:Nine Artists from the Ninth Street Show,” David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York, June9-29.

2010 "American Modernists in Wyoming: George McNeil, Ilya Bolotowsky and Leon Kelly" University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie Wyoming, January 30-August 7.

2011 "The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony 1899-2011," New Britain Museum of American Art, July 15-October 16.

McNeil p. 10 Selected Public Collections

Alcoa Collection of Modern Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York.

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.

Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art, Dennis , Massachusetts

Colby College Art Museum, Waterville Maine

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Des Moines Art Center, des Moines Iowa.

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.

High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

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).

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.

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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.

Philip Morris Corporation, New York.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 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.

University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming

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.

Yale University Art Museum, New Haven Connecticut

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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Selected Teaching Positions

Hans Hofmann School of Art, 1937.

University of Wyoming at Laramie, 1946-48.

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 1948-81.

University of California at Berkeley, 1956-57.

New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, New York 1966-1981.

Selected Fellowships and Awards

Ford Foundation Purchase Award, 1963.

National Council on the Arts Awards, 1967.

Guggenheim Fellow, 1969.

Tamarind Institite, Artist-in-Residence 1971, 1975, 1976, 1984.

American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1982; elected member 1989.

Avery Chairperson, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, The Bard College Center, 1985.

Honorary Doctor of Fine Art, Pratt Institute, 1985.

Honorary Doctor of Fine Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1988.

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Selected Bibliography

McNeil, George, Hananiah Harari, Jan Matulka, Herzl Emanuel, Byron Browne, Leo Lances and Rosalind Bengelsdorf, “We, the undersigned abstract artists...” letter, New York Times, August 8, 1937.

American Art Today, National Art Society, New York, 1939 (catalogue for New York Worlds Fair 1939).

Time Magazine, February 20, 1950, review of Egan Gallery Exhibition and illus.

Hess, Thomas B. “ Is Abstraction Un-American?” ARTNews 49:10 (February 1951), 41.

Time Magazine, February 29, 1954, review of Egan Gallery exhibition and illus.

The New York Times, January 30, 1957, review.

Shuyler, James. “George McNeil,” ARTNews 55:10 (February 1957), 9-10, illus. p.9.

Life Magazine, “ Hans Hofmann and His Influence,” March 8, 1957, illus.

Greenberg, Clement. “ New York Painting Only Yesterday,” ARTNews 56:4 (Summer 1957), 86.

Sandler, Irving H. “George McNeil,” ARTNews 57:9 (January 1959), 12, illus. p.12.

The New York Times, January 14, 1959, review.

McNeil, George. “Spontaneity,” IT IS, vol.3 (Winter-Spring 1959), 14-15, illus .p.23, 42.

McNeil, George. “Cubism, Generate and Degenerate,” ARTNews 60:3 (May 1961), 43, 62-3.

Rosenblum, Robert. “ Editor’s Letters,” ARTNews 60:4 (Summer 1961), 6.

Finkelstein, Louis. “ Cajori: The figure in the scene,” ARTNews 62:1 (March 1963), 39, illus. p.39.

The New York Times, October 25, 1964, review.

Levin, Kim. “George McNeil,” ARTNews 65:1 (March 1966), 17, illus. p.11.

Goldin, Amy, “George McNeil,” Arts Magazine 50:6 (April 1966), 66.

Rose, Barbara. American Art Since 1900 (New York: Praeger, 1967), p.145. illus. p.145.

Glueck, Grace. “Think Up a New Brand Name?” Art in America 55:5 (September-October 1967), 111, illus. p.109.

Burton, Scott. “George McNeil and the Figure,” ARTNews 66:6 (October 1967), cover, 38-39, 64-65, illus p.39.

Brown, Gordon. “In the Galleries: George McNeil,” Arts Magazine 42:2 (November 1967), 54-55.

Rose, Barbara. “New York: George McNeil,” Artforum (November 1967), 58-60, illus. p.58.

McNeil, George. “ Good Painting: Painting as Painting,” (catalogue of the exhibition) The Art Museum of the University of Texas at Austin, 1968, 6, 8, 10, 12.

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Freed, Eleanor, “ A Windfall for Texas,” Art in America 57:6 (November-December 1969), 84, illus. p.84.

Grove, Nancy. “George McNeil,” Arts Magazine 50:5 (January 1976), 15.

Walch, Peter. “ American Abstract Artists,” Art Journal XXXVI/II (Fall 1977), 47-8, illus. p.48.

Pomfret, Margaret. “ George McNeil,” Arts Magazine 52:5 (January 1978), 34, illus p.34.

Kramer, Hilton. “ Two Polemicists Respond to the Mood of the Times,” The New York Times, Sunday, January 18, 1981, Section D, 23, 26, illus. p.23.

Ruhe, Barnaby. “ George McNeil at 72,” Art/World 5:5 (January 16-February 18, 1981) 1,4, illus. p.9.

Newman, David. “George McNeil,” Arts Magazine 55:7 (March 1981), 24.

Ratcliff, Carter. “George McNeil at Gruenebaum,” Art in America 69:5 (May 1981), 145, illus. p.145.

Horowitz, Leonard. “The Artist’s Club,” Artworkers News II: 8 (April 1982), 10-11, photo of artist p.1.

Helms, Paul. “ George McNeil Exhibit Opens at Museum,” The High Riser December 9, 1982, 2.

Ratcliff, Carter. “George McNeil,” George McNeil: The past twenty years, 36 page catalogue of the exhibition at Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, December 6-31, 1982., pp.5, 7, 9, 11.

McNeil, George. “One Painter’s Expressionism,” George McNeil Expressionism 1954-1984, 32 page catalogue for the exhibition at the Artists’ Choice Museum, new York, September 22- November 10, 1984, pp.8-9.

Brenson, Michael. “ Art: Expressionism and George McNeil,” The New York Times, October 5, 1984.

Adams, Clinton and George McNeil. “ The Artist as Lithographer: A Conversation,” The Tamarind Papers 7:2. (Fall 1984) 40-46.

Russell, John. “ Art: New Paintings by George McNeil,” The New York Times, January 25, 1985.

Cohen, Ronny. “ George McNeil/Gruenebaum,” ARTNews (April 1985), 141.

Raynor, Vivien. “Global and Satirical Images in Two Silvermine Shows,” The New York Times Section 12, March 6, 1986, 30.

Higgins, Judith. “Heroes of Myth and the Morning After,” ARTNews (September 1986), 90-99.

Brenson, Michaael. “ Art: Brooklyn Painters,” The New York Times, July 3, 1987.

Schimmel, Paul and Judith Stein. Catalogue essays for traveling exhibition “The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism,” Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, California, 1987.

Brenson, Michael, “ An Antic Hymn to a Never-Elegant new York,” The New York Times, January 20, 1989.

Kingsley, April. Emotional Impact: The New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Moyer Bell, 1989

O’Beil, Hedy. “George McNeil’s New Work,” Manhattan Arts 6:1 (March 1989), 8-9.

McNally, Owen. “Resurrection of an Expressionist,” The Hartford Courant, Nov.15, 1989.

Zimmer, William. “The Lively Social Awareness of Two Veteran Painters,” The New York Times, Dec. 31, 1989.

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Anreus, Alejandro. “George McNeil: The Painter as Printmaker,” and “A Conversation with George McNeil,” catalogue essays for “George McNeil: Three Decades of Prints,” Montclair Art Museum, April 14-June 23, 1991 (catalogue misdated 1990)..

Nemett, Barry. Images, Objects and Ideas: Viewing the visual arts (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston), 1991.

Brenson, Michael. “George McNeil,” The New York Times, January 11, 1991.

Haggerty, Gerald. “George McNeil: Hirschl & Adler Modern,” Manhattan Arts (February 1991) cover.

Robert Berlind. “George McNeil at Hirschl & Adler Modern,” Art in America (April, 1991), 165-66.

Kingsley, April. The Turning Point: The Abstract Expressionists and the transformation of American art (New York:Simon & Schuster) 96, 197, 270.

Santlofer, Jonathan. “Lions in Winter,” ARTNews, March 1993.

Kuspit, Donald.”The Ultimate Illogical Fling: George McNeil’s New Paintings,” catalogue essay for exhibition at the New York Studio School, 1993.

Kimmelman, Michael. “George McNeil,” The New York Times, April 2, 1993.

Berlind, Robert. “George McNeil Interviewed by Robert Berlind,” Art Journal 53:1 (1994), cover, 55-57.

Bass, Ruth. “George McNeil ACA,” ARTNews (May?,1994), 156.

The New York Times, January 12, 1995, obituary.

Sandler, Irving. Art of the Postmodern Era: From the late 1960s to the early 1990s (New York: HarperCollins), 1996, Ch.8. (In Chapter 8, “American Neoexpressionism,” Guston and McNeil are discussed as the most important and influential older artists.)

Sandler, Irving, ed. Pintura Estadounidense Expressionismo Abstracto, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, A.C. Mexico, D.F., 1996, (577 page catalogue of the exhibition), pp.266-67, 424-20.

McNeil, Helen “George McNeil 1908-1995” Provincetown Arts, 1996.

Naves, Mario. “George McNeil,” The New Criterion, May 1998.

Weil, Rex. “George McNeil,” ARTNews, October 1998.

The Hyde Collection. George McNeil: The Late Paintings 1980-1995. 40 page catalogue with essays by Eleanor Heartney and Jonathan Santlofer (Glens Falls, New York: The Hyde Collection), 1999.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum. George McNeil: Bathers, Dancers and Abstracts . 36 page catalogue with essays by Peter Selz, Paul Resika, Lillian Orlowsky, Helen McNeil (Provincetown MA: Provincetown Art Association and Museum), 2002.

Naves, Mario. “ An Artist’s Explosive Spirit -- and his Spirit of Resistance,” The New York Observer, May 13, 2002.

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