Catalogue
- Year
- 1961
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 56.2 × 43.4 cm (22 3/16 × 17 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Neil Welliver
Artist
Drawing
Neil Welliver is an American painter known for large-scale landscapes executed in oil, depicting Maine's wilderness with formal precision and atmospheric subtlety. Working from the 1950s onward, he combined close observation of natural light and terrain with an abstract sensibility inherited from his postwar training. His canvases, often monumental in scale, treat forest interiors, water, and seasonal change as subjects for rigorous formal investigation rather than romantic sentiment.
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1982 · Woodcut
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1979 · Graphite on ivory wove paper
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- Neil Welliver
- Year
- 1961
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 56.2 × 43.4 cm (22 3/16 × 17 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1961-089810
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified