1910-1995

Born 1910 New York
Died 1995

EDUCATION
Pratt Institute, New York
Art Students League, New York
Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts
Columbia University, New York

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Lyceum Gallery, Havana, Cuba, 1941
Charles Egan Gallery, New York, 1950
Charles Egan Gallery, New York, 1952
Hendler Galleries, Philadelphia, 1952
Charles Egan Gallery, New York, 1953
Brown Gallery, Boston, 1953
Charles Egan Gallery, New York, 1954
De Young Museum, San Francisco, 1956
Poindexter Gallery, New York, 1957
Poindexter Gallery, New York, 1959
Wise Gallery, New York, 1960
Howard Wise Gallery, New York, 1962
Howard Wise Gallery, New York, 1964.
University of Texas, Austin, 1966
Great Jones Gallery, New York, 1966
Howard Wise Gallery, New York, 1967
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 1969
Pratt-Manhattan Center, New York, 1973
Landmark Gallery, New York, 1975
Berman Gallery, New York, 1977
Dintenfass Gallery, New York, 1979
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1981
Jorgeson Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs, 1982
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, George McNeil: The Past Twenty Years, 1982
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1983
Artists’ Choice Museum, New York, 1984
Kasmin Knoedler Gallery, London, 1985
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1985
State University of New York, Binghamton, 1985
Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, George McNeil Abstractscapes, 1985
Carlson Art Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1986
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1987
Joceloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut, 1989
Knoedler Gallery, New York, 1989
Hirschl & Adler Modem, New York, 1991
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, George McNeil: Three Decades of Prints, 1991
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, 1992
New York Studio School, 1992
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, 1993
ACA Galleries, New York, 1994
Nardin Galleries, Somers, New York, 1996
ACA Galleries, New York, 1998
The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York (traveled to North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks), George McNeil: the Late Paintings 1980–1995, 1998
George McNeil: Bathers, Dancers and Abstracts, ACA Galleries, New York (traveled to Provincetown Art Association and Museum), 2002
ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, George McNeil Abstractscapes, 2002
Luise Ross Gallery, New York, 2003
Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York, 2005
ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, George McNeil: At Midcentury, 2006
2008
ACME Fine Art, Boston, George McNeil: Paintings from the 1950s & 1960s, 2008
ACME Fine Art, Boston, George McNeil: The Women, 1938-1972, 2010.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
American Art Today, New York World’s Fair, 1939
The Art Institute of Chicago, Abstract and Surrealist American Art, 1947–1948
Provincetown Art Association, Massachusetts, Post-Abstract Painting 1950, 1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1951
9th Street Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, New York 1951
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1953
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1953
Stable Gallery, New York, 1953
Stable Gallery, New York, Third Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1954
Stable Gallery, New York, Fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1955
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1955
Poindexter Gallery, Drawings, Watercolors and Small Oils, 1956
Riverside Museum, New York, American Abstract Artists, 1956
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1957
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, 1958
Camino Gallery, New York, Work of Twenty-Five years by Five Contemporary Painters, 1959
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, 1959
Rutgers University Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey George McNeil and Michael Loew, 1959
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio, Contemporary American Painting, 1960
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1961
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Contemporary Paintings Selected from 1960-61 New York Gallery Exhibitions, 1961
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Some Contemporary American Artists, 1961
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, American Abstract Artists and Imagists, 1961
Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1961
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, Continuity and Change, 1962
66th American Exhibition, Paris, France, circulated by the Art Institute of Chicago
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
San Francisco Museum, California, Directions: Paintings USA, 1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art in Embassies, 1963
University of Texas, Austin, 1964
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual, 1965
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Annual, 1966
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Art on Paper, 1966
Marlborough Gallery, New York, The New York Painter: A Century of Painting: Morris-Hofmann, 1967
The Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Painting as Painting, 1968
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1968
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The New American Painting: the First Generation, 1969
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 1972
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, American Abstract Artists, 1977
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, The Painterly Figure, 1983
Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco (traveled to Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Alaska; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, University Art Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City; Beaumont Art Center, Texas; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas), Emotional Impact: New York School Figurative Expressionism, 1985-6
Museum of Modern Art, New York Recent Acquisitions, 1985
Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College Center, Annandale on Hudson, New York, 1985
Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, 1985
Ingber Gallery, New York, Survival of the Fittest,1985
Hassam and Speicher Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 38th Annual Purchase Exhibition, 1986
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, American Masters: Works on Paper, 1986
Level Meyerson Galleries, New York, Hans Hofmann and his Legacy, 1986
Area X Gallery, New York, Obscure Guerilla Chieftains of the Hemisphere, 1986
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York (exhibition travels to ten other museum venues), Elders of the Tribe, 1986-88
Brooklyn Museum, New York, Working in Brooklyn Painting, 1987
Museum of American Art (traveled to Fairfield County, Stanford, Connecticut), Enduring Creativity, 1988
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (traveling exhibition), The Figurative Fifties, 1988
Thorpe Gallery, New York, Face Off, 1989
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts, The Provocative Years 1935–45,1990
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith Collects Contemporary,1991
Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, Big Paintings, 1992
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, Paths of Abstraction: Painting in New York 1944-81, 1994
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico, Abstract Expressionism in the United States, 1996
Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York, 1999
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts, Forum Forty-Nine Revisited, 2000
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints, 2001
Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C (traveling exhibition), Meditations on the Human Spirit, 2002-03
ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Provincetown Painters, 2002
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Recent Acquisitions, 2003
ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, The New York School, 2003
ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Provincetown Painters, 2005
ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Artwork From the Collection of William Freed & Lillian Orlowsky, 2005
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts, Making it New: George McNeil & His Students, 2006
ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Figuratively Speaking, 2007
David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York, The Art of Gesture, 2008
ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Summer Salon, 2008
ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Works on Paper, 2008
November 21 – December 23, 2008
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, Gallery Selections, 2009
ACME Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Days Lumberyard Studios, Provincetown, 1915-1972, 2009
Morrison Gallery, Kent Connecticut, Hans Hofmann & George McNeil, 2009-10
University of Wyoming Art Museum, American Modernists in Wyoming: George McNeil, Ilya Bolotowsky, and Leon Kelly, 2010
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Days Lumberyard Studios, 1914-1972, 2010

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Alcoa Collection of Modern Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
DuPont Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Exxon Corporation, New York
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockport, Maine
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Huntington Art Gallery, James Michener Collection, University of Texas, Austin
Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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, Purchase
Newark Museum, New Jersey
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Northern Michigan University Art Museum, Marquette
Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma
Palm Spring Desert Museum, California
Phillip Morris Corporation, New York
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Smithsonian Institute Print Collection, Washington DC
Springfield Art Museum, Missouri
University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

AWARDS
Ford Foundation Purchase Award, 1963
National Council on the Arts Awards, 1967
Guggenheim Fellow, 1969
Tamarind Institute, 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, 1998