Neil Welliver Signed "Big Flowage
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Neil Welliver Big Flowage color woodcut, titled Big Flowage , 1979. Signed in bottom right in pencil. Numbered 49/80 in bottom left hand corner. Artwork size is 20 1/2 x 19 7/8 inches. Piece is in Very Good Condition . "Welliver's huge paintings of the Maine woods are among the strongest images in modern American art," the critic Robert Hughes wrote in Time magazine, adding that the paintings contain "an emotional intensity that goes beyond the ordinary limits of realism." Mr. Welliver was born in the Pennsylvania lumber town of Millville on July 22, 1929. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art (now part of the University of the Arts) and received a master's of fine arts degree from Yale University , w he studied with the noted abstract artist Josef Albers. Mr. Welliver taught at Yale from 1956 to 1966, even as his own style evolved from abstract color-field paintings to watercolors of domestic and small-town scenes. After discovering Maine in the early 1960s, he switched to oil paintings and often portrayed female nudes in outdoor settings. By the mid-1970s, he had eliminated the human figure from his work, focusing on his closely observed impressions of the Maine landscape. To make his art, Welliver has found it important to observe nature closely, to work in the landscape, the wind and light and air serving
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