George McNeil

"New Mexico Landscape: Weeping Cloud," 1979
Oil on canvas
48 x 52 in. (121.9 x 132.1 cm)
Collection of the George McNeil Charitable Trust

"McNeil gets an astonishing degree of complexity from his flat patterns. And instead of insisting on that flatness, the textures of his paintings always question it emphasizing an oblique rush into the distances of a painting, putting doubts to planarity, drawing the eye into regions where the atmosphere can go in an instant from serenely warm to harsh and chilly. The overall climate of McNeil's art is of course hot, even torrid. Sudden contrasts draw our attention to the prevailing weather, just as startling swoops into pictorial depths remind the eye that, after all, the action is on the surface."

-Carter Ratliff, cataloque essay prepared for NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale exhibition "George McNeil: The Past Twenty Years," 1982

Blonde, 1992
Oil and collage on canvas
56 x 50 inches (142.2 x 127 cm)
Collection of the Estate of George McNeil
Photo: .reichphotography
#1992

Collection Highlight: Grey Art Museum, New York University

"Antiope," 1965
Oil on canvas
60 x 56 in. (152.4 x 142.2 cm)
Collection Grey Art Museum, New York University, New York, anonymous gift.