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George McNeilUntitled Figure signed numbered mixed media print from scarce European portfolio1986
1986
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George McNeil
Untitled Figure, 1986
Lithograph on paper. Publisher's and Printer's Blind
Stamps
Hand-signed, numbered 78/84 and dated by the artist on the front with publisher's and printer's blindstamps.
21 3/4 × 28 inches
Provenance:
Original Atelier International Portfolio #78
Unframed
This lithograph is hand signed, numbered and dated. Unframed and in fine condition as it is from the original Atelier International portfolio.
GEORGE MCNEIL (1908-1995) had a career that spanned the entire postwar American art era. McNeil attended Pratt Institute and the Art Students’ League, where he studied with Jan Matulka. From 1932-36, he studied with Hans Hofmann, becoming Hofmann's studio classroom monitor. In 1936 he worked for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and became one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists group. McNeil was one of the few abstract artists whose work was selected for the New York World's Fair in 1939. During World War II, he served in the US Navy. In the late 1940s McNeil taught at the University of Wyoming and then taught art and art history at Pratt Institute until 1980, influencing generations of young artists. A pioneer Abstract Expressionist of the New York School, McNeil had over forty solo exhibitions during his lifetime. Between the ’40s and until the mid ’60s his art was decidedly abstract but it was always joined to metaphor. From the ’70s onward, McNeil explored ways to expand beyond the cannons of Abstract Expressionism. In this period his work became more figurative, drawing inspiration from the dynamic life of the city, its dancers, discos and sports. Throughout his career as a painter McNeil commanded a mastery technique, capable of creating paintings of rich texture depth and color. In 1989, McNeil was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work is represented in numerous museum collections around the country, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of America Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
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George McNeil [was] one of the most energetic of the American Expressionists. Born in Brooklyn, he remained there throughout his life. He studied in New York at Pratt Institute, the Arts Students League, with Hans Hofmann from 1933 to 1936, and at Columbia University. It was Hofmann who gave McNeil what he felt he needed as an artist, 'a strong spatial experience… and the ability to translate that into a two-dimensional equivalent.'
While McNeil’s early work owes much to the painterly abstraction of Hofmann, figurative traces are visible in it. By the early 1960s, the human figure was fully integrated into his paintings, this was done without, however, allowing the work to become illustrative. Since the 1980s, McNeil has been attracted to subjects within a specific environment, such as discotheques and disco dancing. Although the artist claims that he has never visited such places, the works produced with this theme reveal a mixture of dread and humor that is very much a part of the real subject.
Deliverance Disco is a bold, refreshing painting filled with raucous colors and forms that are about to explode out of the picture plane. Push and pull, a term used by Hofmann to explain the ability of color combinations to recede and move forward within a picture is clearly visible between the back and blue background and the two figures that fill most of the composition. The larger of the two figures is formed by brushstrokes and drips with patches of green, red, tan, orange, and gray. The dark background, with its minuscule white spots, has an infinite skylike quality that is further enhanced by tiny floating figures. Deliverance Disco, done in an exuberant painterly manner, is a joyous and satirical statement about the human condition.
Text Written by Alejandro Anreus (Emeritus) (Former Associate Curator at MAM)
-Courtesy of the Montclair Art Museum
- Creator:George McNeil (1908 - 1995)
- Creation Year:1986
- Dimensions:Height: 21.75 in (55.25 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745212519952
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