George McNeil (1908-1995)

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

TEACHING POSITIONS

1946-1948 University of Wyoming
1948-1980 Pratt Institute
1956-1957 University of California, Berkeley
1966-1980 New York Studio School

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1963 Ford Foundation Purchase
1967 National Council on the Arts
1969 Guggenheim Fellow
1982 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award
1971 Tamarind Artist in Residence (also 1975-6, 1984)
1985 Avery Chair, Bard College, Blum Institute

MEMBER
American Abstract Artists
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art
Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian Institution
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Smith College Art Museum
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Michener Collection, University of Texas, Austin
University of Michigan Art Museum
New York University, Gray Art Gallery
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
Newark Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina
Oklahoma City Art Museum
University of New Mexico Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
l EXHIBITIONS
1939 New York Worlds Fair
1947 Art Institute of Chicago
1950 Provincetown Art Association and Museum (also 1990)
1951 Museum of Modern Art (also 1969, 1985)
9th Street Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture
1953 Whitney Museum of American Art (also 1957, 1961, 1965, 1968, 1984)
1954 Stable Gallery (also 1955)
1956 De Young Museum, San Francisco (solo)
1958 Carnegie Institute
1960 Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts
1961 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery
1962 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (also 1966)
Wadsworth Atheneum
1963 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1964 Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin (also 1966, 1968)
1966 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina
1969 Des Moines Art Center
1972 Brooklyn Museum (also 1987)
1977 University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico
1982 Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (solo)
Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs (solo)
1983 Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
1984 Artists’ Choice Museum, New York (solo)
1985 State University of New York, Binghamton (solo)
Kansas City Art Institute
Blum Institute, Bard College,
1986 University of Bridgeport, Carlson Gallery (solo)
Corcoran Gallery of Art
1988 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1989 University of Hartford (solo)
1991 Montclair Art Museum (solo)
Smith College Museum of Art
1992 Tuscon Museum of Art
1993 New York Studio School (solo)
Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion
1999 Hyde Collection Art Museum (solo)
North Dakota Museum of Art (solo)