Neil Welliver

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Neil Welliver was an American-born modern artist. Born in Millville, Pennsylvania on July 22, 1929, died on April 5, 2005 in Belfast, Maine. Mr. Welliver graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art (now part of the University of the Arts) and then received an MFA from Yale University. At Yale, he studied with the abstract artist Josef Albers. Welliver taught at Yale for the next 10 years, later becoming chairman of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Art, from which he retired in 1989.