Neil Welliver
25 E 73rd Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10021
January 10 – February 28, 2026

Alexandre Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of works by Neil Welliver, building upon the resounding success of Neil Welliver: A Maine Pop-Up, presented July 3 – August 10, 2025, in Rockport, Maine. The New York presentation further underscores Welliver’s enduring relevance within the canon of postwar American landscape painting.

Best known for his vivid landscape paintings and woodcuts, Neil Welliver lived in Maine for more than three decades, settling in the Midcoast region among a close-knit commu- nity of observational and representational artists that included Rudy Burckhardt, Lois Dodd, and Alex Katz. During this prolific period of exchange, Welliver maintained a rigorous teaching career: first at Yale University, where he studied under Josef Albers, and later at the University of Pennsylvania, where he chaired the Graduate Program in Fine Art until 1989.

Deeply attuned to the innate abstraction of the natural world, Welliver frequently carried his painting supplies into remote terrain, working en plein air for hours at a time. In the final decade of his life, his focus expanded beyond his 1,600-acre Lincolnville property to include extended summer retreats to the Allagash. The oil studies he produced by streams and within dense forests were later translated in the studio into monumental canvases, some measuring up to eight feet square.