Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Chrysalis (1954-1964)
May 6 – 28, 2022
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Head of Passagassawakeag, 1990
Oil on linen
60" x 60"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Waterfall
Oil on canvas
95" x 69 1/2"
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Men in Suits, Nude & Butterfly, 1961
Oil on canvas
36" x 32"
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Tuba Player, 1950s/60s
Oil on canvas
30" x 29"
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Family Portrait
Oil on canvas
77 1/2" x 90 1/2"
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Green Day, 1964
Oil on canvas
66 1/2" x 79"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Man with Dog, 1950s/60s
Oil on canvas
48" diameter
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Wedding, c. 1963-64
Oil on canvas
48" diameter
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Round Group with Fruit, 1950s/60s
Oil on canvas
48 1/2" diameter
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Skeletons Party, 1950s/60s
Oil on paper mounted to foamcore
46-1/4" x 41"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Two Skeletons in Water, 1950s/60s
Oil on paper mounted to foamcore
47" x 42"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Sacred Cow, c. 1960-62
Watercolor on paper
17" x 22 1/2"
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Untitled #6, c. 1960-62
Watercolor on paper
22-1/2" x 17"
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Sacred Cow Series, c. 1960-62
Oil on canvas
47 1/2" x 67"
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Man with Butterfly Nudes, c. 1960-62
Oil on canvas
66 1/2" x 81"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Girl and Boy with Guinea Pig, 1968
Oil on canvas
61" x 61"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Bear Hole, 1991
Oil on linen
72" x 72"
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Grey Rocks, 1972
Oil on linen
72" x 72"
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Frank Kawasaki, 1970's
Oil on canvas
75 1/4h x 76w in
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
New Dams Meadow, 1984
Woodcut on paper
34 1/2" x 33 1/2"
Edition 22/80
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Winter Rainbow, 1983
Aquatint and etching printed in colors
18" x 20"
71/150
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Redding Salmon (Northern Sea Trout), 1997-98
9/35
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Family Portrait, 1960's
Oil on canvas
22-1/2" x 25"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Stump, 2000
Woodcut on Nishinouchi paper
30" x 30 1/16"
Framed: 44h x 43w in
Edition 91/100
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Stream at Baxter, 1970
Oil on canvas
38-1/2" x 38-1/2"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Little Marsh, 1985-86
Woodcut on Nishinouchi paper
40" x 40"
95/100
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Water Lily, 1987
Aquatint on paper
16h x 19w in
AP
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Trout and Reflected Tree, 1985
Hand colored etching on paper
26" x 29"
Edition 84/90
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Flotsam Allagash, 1995
Woodcut on Nishinouchi paper
43" x 43-1/2"
AP
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Study for Bear Hole Runlet
Oil on canvas
14" x 14"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Study for Man in a Canoe, 1965
Watercolor and pencil on paper
23" x 18"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Maiden's Cliff
Silkscreen
40" x 40"
Edition 73/144
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Study for Prospect Brook, 1994
Oil on linen
20" x 20"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
Stream and Mountain
Oil on canvas
20" x 24"
SOLD
Neil Welliver (1929-2005)
The Swan, 1987
Hand-colored etching on paper
14h x 12 3/4w in
AP
"The early paintings mark the transformative, if not to say slow, awakening of Welliver’s own work. The ravenous, raucous, uncontained early works ricochet between abstraction and realism. In the late landscapes, for which he is best known, the seem- ing slapdash urgency of these early paintings dis- sipates into something new, vital, and central to the artist’ s being. In W elliver’ s mature, monumental paintings of Maine’s northern forests and streams we see a new kind of painting where surface han- dling, painterly gesture, and subject — unruly nature — seamlessly merge and quietly coalesce. The fading memory of those manicured lawns of suburban academia — Manet-like picnics on the grass with fellow faculty accompanied by nude models, dogs, sheep, and general dissonance — eventually yield to the randomness of nature for its own sake on its own terms. Those early collisions of fantasy and reality — butterflies and friends, sheep and tubas — finally resolve into Welliver’s full, final embrace of plangent nature, as source and solace."
