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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
LLOYD G. MCNEILL (1935 - ) Untitled (Family).
Oil on canvas, 1962. 1220x1015 mm; 48x40 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.
Provenance: private New York collection. This is only the second work by the artist we have found at auction in the past 20 years.
Born in Washington, D.C., this modernist painter is known for his figurative oil painting. He received a B.A. at Morehouse College and an M.F.A. from Howard University, where he studied with Löis Mailou Jones, and was on the visiting faculty at Skowhegan. His painting Yolk was included in the landmark The Negro in American Art exhibition at U.C.L.A in 1966, and his work is in the collections of the Atlanta Art Museum, Spelman College and Dartmouth College.
