About George Bireline

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    The following is from www.leehansleygallery.com
    George Bireline 1923-2002

    RALEIGH -- A memorial service for George Bireline, 79, who died Aug. 20 at his home at 228 East Park Dr., will be held Sunday, Sept. 15, at 5 p.m. in the ballrooms of the Talley Student Center at N.C. State University.

    Bireline, professor emeritus at the NCSU College of Design, is best known for his bright and intense color palette which he employed in his paintings in a number of styles--from his early figural abstract paintings, to abstract expressionism, to his benchmark color field paintings, to his trompe l'oeil interiors, his shaped canvases, his personal narrative paintings and in his late environmental and social comment works.

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