George McNeil

Opening this week! "George McNeil: Provincetown and After – Abstracting the Form" at Cape Cod Community College's Higgins Art Gallery.

Exhibition: March 19 – April 13
Reception: Monday, March 23, 2-4PM
Webinar: Monday, April 13, 2PM - Link forthcoming!

Images:
Essence, 1953
Oil on canvas on panel
48 x 40 in. (121.9 x 101.6 cm)
Collection of the Estate of George McNeil

Northampton, 1953
Oil on panel
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm)
Collection of the Estate of George McNeil

Estuary, 1957
Oil on paper mounted on panel
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Collection of the Estate of George McNeil

https://www.capecod.edu/higgins/

Bush, 1949
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)

This work was included in McNeil's first solo exhibition at Egan Gallery in February 1950, and Time Magazine's included the following in the February 20th, 1950 edition's art section:

"George McNeil, 40, starts with a still life 'as a point of departure. Then almost immediately I see through the object into movements of form and color which create space. I call my paintings Space Impelled.' Clearly McNeil's impulse was to churn space up into something gooey and gay. It took tubefuls of loud color, and a good deal of single-minded thrashing and splashing, but he managed it."