Neil Anderson, Large Abstract Figural Hard Edge Op Art Oil on Canvas Painting in Dark Neutrals

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Fabulous acrylic on canvas. Framed in a high quality deep silver metal frame. Measures 45" x 50.75". Likely from 1980s. … Read more Fabulous acrylic on canvas. Framed in a high quality deep silver metal frame. Measures 45" x 50.75". Likely from 1980s. Presents very well overall, faint rubs to frame and top trim of art, not noticeable. Gallery label attributing to the artist was removed. Was sold at auction among other paintings by the artist from a northeastern estate.

Biography
Neil Anderson (1933-2021, American) is a contemporary painter heavily inspired by the natural landscape surrounding his studio in rural central Pennsylvania. He describes his work as non-representational rather than abstract and explains that after the initial drawing, the emerging colors, textures and shapes are all improvised. The meaning of the painting arises from the unexpected occurrences of formal arrangement that happen in the process of working toward a conclusion where all the parts will become interdependent.

Neil Anderson primarily works in oil and watercolor, with occasional forays into printmaking and on-site projects focused on the environment and natural phenomena. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa and later became a long-time professor of art at Bucknell University, teaching there for 41 years and retiring in 1999.

His work has been featured in notable group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and exhibited in numerous solo shows in Philadelphia, New York, and Washington D.C. He is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and Temple University’s Fox School of Business among others.

Anderson has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, Art in America, Arts Magazine, ARTnews, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. See less