Neil Welliver "Nature
in Isolation: The Maine Landscape" Dec. 6, 2003 - Mar. 13, 2004
Neil Welliver Biography
Neil Welliver is prominently recognized as the Dean of Post-War Maine Landscape Painters. Yet like many artists of his generation at Yale, his realistic images employ the lessons of an abstract painter, the color theorist Joseph Albers.
Born in 1929 in rural Pennsylvania, Welliver founded the Graduate School of Fine Arts at The University of Pennsylvania, where he remains Professor Emeritus. Today he is involved in local government and is fiercely committed to the preservation of the environment.
His work is included in numerous permanent public and private collections-- including the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
