Irene Neal

Irene Neal is an internationally exhibited American painter. She graduated from Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 1958.[1] She was a member of the New New Painters a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Kenworth Moffett (1934 - 2016) in 1978, contemporaneously with the further development of acrylic gel paint as developed by the paint chemist Sam Golden.[2] In describing her work the Moffett stated "Irene Neal works in the tradition of large size, free form abstraction, originating with Jackson Pollock, the Abstract Expressionists, and the Color Field Painters".[3]

References
  1. "Irene Neal, About the Artist". Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
  2. Sam Golden, Paintmaking Pioneer, Sam Golden's eulogy at Golden Artist Colors.
  3. "Moffett's Artletter 2.0 | Irene Neal". kenworthwmoffett.net. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
  • The artist's website -
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