From the Archive: Artist Paul Resika Writes on McNeil (2002)

On the occasion of the 2002 George McNeil retrospective at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the following interview with artist Paul Resick with Helen McNeil took place in the studio of George McNeil in Brooklyn in February 2002.

In his earlier career, George’s painting was close to a particular world of painters: [Lee] Krasner, [Gorgio] Cavallon, [Fritz] Bultman, and maybe [Theodoros] Stamos. I know he was friends with these artists, but it was a shared way of paitning. You see them in each other’s work.

Later in life, when he found his own powerful and original voice, paradoxically he was closest to [Hans] Hofmann. With artists, life can from a kind of circle—a sacred wheel.

—Paul Resika

Paul Resika is a painter based in New York and Cape Cod. He studied with Hans Hofmann in New York from 1945 to 1947.