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 viewClassificationsPAINTING
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.
