LLOYD G. MCNEILL (1935 - 2021) Pieces for Liberation.
Color screenprint on cream wove paper, 1971. 1016x660 mm; 40x26 inches. Signed, titled, dated "12/24/71" and numbered 26/120 in pencil, lower edge. Published by Workshop, Inc., Washington, DC, with the blindstamp lower left.
Provenance The estate of Warren M. Robbins, founder of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
Another impression is in the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art.
Born in Washington, DC, this modernist painter is known for his figurative oil painting. He received a BA at Morehouse College and an MFA 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 UCLA in 1966, and his work is in the collections of the Atlanta Art Museum, Spelman College and Dartmouth College.
