Neil Welliver
American, 1929 - 2005Sky in Cora’s Marsh, 1987 - 1988
Not on view
Woodcut on paper
Dimensions34 1/2 × 35 in. (87.6 × 88.9 cm)
Image: 27 1/2 × 30 in. (69.9 × 76.2 cm)
Gift of the artist and Mr. Philippe Alexandre
© Neil Welliver Courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York, 2000.57
Born in Minnville, Pennsylvania in 1929, Neil Welliver studied with the preeminent abstract artist Josef Albers at Yale during the 1950s. Welliver worked en plein air, or "out of doors", for many hours in order to capture the changes in light and temperature. Initially, he included figures or animals in his scenes, but by the mid-1970s his work had given way to exploring the purity of the landscape alone. Sky In Cora’s Marsh exemplifies Welliver’s contemplative approach, one that emphasizes his solitary experience of nature.
