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Neil Welliver Art

American, 1929-2005
Landscape painter Neil Welliver was born in 1929 in Millville, Pennsylvania. He attended the Philadelphia College of Art, and then went on to receive his MFA from Yale University. There, Welliver studied with abstract artist Josef Albers who had a significant influence on his work. He began his teaching career first at the Cooper Union, and then at his alma mater, Yale, from 1956-1966. He also became the chairman of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School Of Fine Art. Welliver’s style evolved from color field painting to more realistic depictions of New England landscapes, most notably in Maine. He settled there in 1970 but commuted to UPENN for his classes from 1966-1989. His life was marked by frequent tragedies. In 1975, a fire consumed his entire home, studio, and all of his art. Over the next few years, his second wife, daughter, and two sons all died. He is survived by his other three sons. His work is in several museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Welliver passed away in 2005 in Belfast, Maine.
(Biography provided by Marlborough New York)
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Artist: Neil Welliver
Neil Welliver at O'Farrel Gallery poster
By Neil Welliver
Located in New York, NY
Neil Welliver at O'Farrel Gallery poster, 1998 Offset lithograph 24 × 18 inches Unframed This offset lithograph poster was published on the occasion of Neil Welliver's exhibition at O'Farrell Gallery from July 17 to September 5, 1998. The depicted painting on the poster is Neil Welliver, Marsh Shadow, 1986. Publisher O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, Maine About Neil Welliver: Neil Welliver (American, 1929-2005) is best known for his large-scale, vivid paintings and woodcuts of the remote Maine wilderness. Born in the small town of Millville, Pennsylvania, he first studied at the Philadelphia College of Art (1953), followed by Yale (1955), where Josef Albers and Burgoyne Diller were among his teachers. Their influence, as well as the rising popularity of Abstract Expressionism, is evident from Welliver’s early experimentations in abstraction, which include elements of color field painting, as well as the color theory of Albers, and the flattened, “allover” space of Pollock and de Kooning. Welliver would go on to teach at Yale from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, by which time he had moved formally towards the representational, beginning to paint the landscape of Maine. In the late 1960s and early 70s he also produced scenes of nude bathers in streams, their bodies abstracted by the moving water. While continuing to work as the chair of the University of Pennsylvania graduate school (1966-1989), he moved permanently to Lincolnville, Maine, in 1970. Welliver lost his studio, home, and much of his work to a fire in 1975. The following year, his second wife and infant daughter died. Further tragedy came with the death of his college aged son in 1991. His artistic practice remained the mode through which he survived these hardships. By the 1980s he was painting landscapes almost exclusively. The resulting body of work nods to many of Welliver’s early influences, as he utilizes natural repetitions and distortions to represent the innate abstraction of the natural world. These mature works are based on long plein-air studies, where Welliver would carry a 70-pound pack of painting supplies into remote landscapes, and sit for three hours at a time. He continued to paint the landscape surrounding his large property in Maine until his death in 2005. Welliver was a member of the National Academy of Design, and received notable awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. - Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery
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1990s Realist Neil Welliver Art

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Lithograph, Offset

FROM ZEKE'S PLACE Signed Lithograph, Maine Landscape, Pine Trees Blue Sky Clouds
By Neil Welliver
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FROM ZEKE'S is an original hand drawn lithograph by Neil Welliver, American, 1929–2005 printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. This hand p...
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1970s Contemporary Neil Welliver Art

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BROWN TROUT
By Neil Welliver
Located in Portland, ME
Welliver, Neil. BROWN TROUT. Etching and aquatint, 1978. Edition of 50. Signed and numbered 16/50, and signed in pencil. 26 1/2 x 36 13/16 inches (sheet). ...
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1970s Neil Welliver Art

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Aquatint, Etching

Loon
By Neil Welliver
Located in New York, NY
Neil Welliver Loon, 1998 color etching, ed. of 175 29 3/4 x 29 5/8 in. (75.6 x 75.2 cm)
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Wood Duck
By Neil Welliver
Located in New York, NY
Hand-colored Etching Edition of 90
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1980s Neil Welliver Art

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Etching

Poems by Henrik Ibsen with lithograph and etchings by Neil Welliver
By Neil Welliver
Located in New York, NY
Five color etchings and double-page fold-out lithograph by Neil Welliver, printed by Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. 26 pages of text by Henrik Ibsen. Bound in woven and collaged silk fitted ...
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1980s Neo-Constructivist Neil Welliver Art

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Lithograph, Etching

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Neil Welliver Salmon, 1977 hand-colored etching on Arches White paper 26 3/4 x 36 inches AP
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Salmon
Salmon
H 26.75 in W 36 in
Canada Geese
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Canada Geese Neil Welliver, American (1929–2005) Date: 1978 Soft ground etching printed on Arches Cover paper hand-colored with watercolor, signed and num...
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Maiden's Cliff
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Maiden’s Cliff Neil Welliver, American (1929–2005) Date: 1973 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 109/144 Image Size: 36 x 36 inches Size: 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101....
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Located in New York, NY
Two prints by Neil Welliver Hand-colored Etchings
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Abraham Lincoln x 6
By Neil Welliver
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Individual Work dimensions 6 1/4" x 9" (x6) Framed dimensions 45 1/4" x 37 1/4" Each individual artwork signed by artist Sold unframed Neil Welliver (American, 1929-2005) is best ...
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1980s American Modern Neil Welliver Art

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By Neil Welliver
Located in New York, NY
Hand-colored Etching Edition of 90
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Located in New York, NY
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Edition of 100
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1970s Realist Neil Welliver Art

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