George McNeil

"Following the French tradition of luxe, calme et volupté my landscapes were composed with animated, brightly-colored shapes with rich pigmentation. To celebrate yellow fields, white and red cottages, cerulean skies and above all the radiant energies of light and air was almost a kind of artistic intoxication. While I sought to raise this pictorial sensateness to extremes, this was not haphazard expressionism with paint indiscriminately strewn about the canvas; rather I intuitively related and formed my image at every step from of the way."
- George McNeil's 1984 essay "Landscapes and Figures of the Mind"

Image 1:
"Landscape 9/15/68," 1968
Oil on panel
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Collection of the George McNeil Charitable Trust

Image 2: McNeil in 1968