George McNeil — Avant Garde Art
2 min readJan 15, 2020
George McNeil (1908–1995) was an American abstract expressionist painter.
McNeil commented to art historian Irving Sandler in 1968: “my work has always had not a human figure image, but it always had a figural image. There always seems to be some kind of center image…that is figural, or imagistic…. is not only found: it’s completely abstract. You see this is the whole thing: I’m not a figure painter at all. I’m an abstract painter where I hope that bringing in the figure brings in certain human or psychological connotations or associations.”
