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FOREWORD

Most colorists can be no more than colorists for the simple reason that in order to achieve exceptional color expression they must sacrifice to it many other elements of their art. Line drawing must be sacrificed, also articulation of the form and design as end in itself.

Lloyd Ney, in his paintings, has laid all these sacrifices on the altar of his coloring. His landscape art is the art of color expression. Yet in his pictures he manages also to give us more than coloring; he gives us moods of mind states of being. It is this quality that will make them appealing to the general public who may perceive but dimly in them the imaginative depth which recommends them to art critics.

Among  American painters, we have no one with whom to compare Lloyd Ney unless it be Albert Ryder, though Ryder was anything but a colorist. The link between them is their mystical strength and a kind of sincerity that makes the artist dedicated to his task. As is the case with Ryder, Ney's works are rare phenomena in the annals of American painting. To some spectators they may appear, at first glance, casual. That is because they possess no flash and no bravura to catch the eye. It is only after contemplation of them that they begin to yield up their fine significance.

Malcolm Vaughan.


TITLES OF PAINTINGS

1. Buildings
2. Parry Barn
3. Along the Canal
4. Sylvester
5. Fiscal Agent
6. Clown
7. Gardening
8. House in Shadow
9. Mechanic Street
10. Composition
11. Still Life
12. Canal Bank
13. Fall Foliage
14. Landscape Near Felix
15. Character
16. Hillside
17. Flowers
18. Doylestown Fair
19. Still Life
20. Canal