Pacific World War II Still Life
Date1941-45
Artist
Robert Neal
American painter and muralist, 1916–1987
MediumOil on Masonite™
Dimensions16 1/2 × 22 in. (41.9 × 55.9 cm)
frame: 20 × 25 in. (50.8 × 63.5 cm)
frame: 20 × 25 in. (50.8 × 63.5 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2017
Object number2017-55
On View
Not on viewCollections
- African American Artists
- American Art through 1960 on View
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextAtlanta native Robert Neal began his artistic study with the muralist Hale Woodruff, when Neal was only 15 years old. Neal served as Woodruff's assistant on the Amistad mural series at Talladega College in Alabama and exhibited in groundbreaking exhibitions of African American art. He relocated to Dayton, Ohio, in the early 1940s, around the time he made this unusual still life of a soldier's helmet and boots.
