An excerpt from "On George Lloyd" by W. S. Di Piero. "George Lloyd has lived west and east, and different weathers coexist in his work to strong, sometimes disturbing effect, especially in the... Read full biography
An excerpt from "On George Lloyd" by W. S. Di Piero. "George Lloyd has lived west and east, and different weathers coexist in his work to strong, sometimes disturbing effect, especially in the paintings he has made these past twenty years while living in Maine. After graduate work at Yale in 1969,... Read full biography
An excerpt from "On George Lloyd" by W. S. Di Piero. "George Lloyd has lived west and east, and different weathers coexist in his work to strong, sometimes disturbing effect, especially in the paintings he has made these past twenty years while living in Maine. After graduate work at Yale in 1969, he went to the Bay Area, where he lived until 1982. He spent those formative years in the wake of Bay Area Figurative painting of the 1950s. Soon after arriving in Berkeley, he was befriended by Elmer... Read full biography
An excerpt from "On George Lloyd" by W. S. Di Piero. "George Lloyd has lived west and east, and different weathers coexist in his work to strong, sometimes disturbing effect, especially in the paintings he has made these past twenty years while living in Maine. After graduate work at Yale in 1969, he went to the Bay Area, where he lived until 1982. He spent those formative years in the wake of Bay Area Figurative painting of the 1950s. Soon after arriving in Berkeley, he was befriended by Elmer Bischoff and joined his drawing group. Lloyd's early west coast paintings have the revved up colorism we associate with the work of Richard Diebenkorn and David Park; they also have a bold, slashing seasonless-ness, as the Bay Area can seem... Read full biography
An excerpt from "On George Lloyd" by W. S. Di Piero. "George Lloyd has lived west and east, and different weathers coexist in his work to strong, sometimes disturbing effect, especially in the paintings he has made these past twenty years while living in Maine. After graduate work at Yale in 1969, he went to the Bay Area, where he lived until 1982. He spent those formative years in the wake of Bay Area Figurative painting of the 1950s. Soon after arriving in Berkeley, he was befriended by Elmer Bischoff and joined his drawing group. Lloyd's early west coast paintings have the revved up colorism we associate with the work of Richard Diebenkorn and David Park; they also have a bold, slashing seasonless-ness, as the Bay Area can seem seasonless. Lloyd has never been a diffident or discreet artist. He's an enthusiast, excitable and large-gestured like Bischof... Read full biography
George Lloyd - Artist Info
About George Lloyd: Books
Books & Publications (3)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Ogunquit Museum Exhibition Catalo George Lloyd, the Maine Years (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Culver, Michael
0 pages
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History