Lloyd Ney was a leading member of the New Hope Modernist school in Pennsylvania, where he developed a bold non-objective style and earned national recognition.

Ney studied at the Industrial School of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He was awarded a Cresson scholarship to study in Europe, and returned to the US devoted to the tenets of Modernism. This dynamic watercolor in a focused palette of red, black, and white utilizes a formally elegant composition to express boundless energy and style.

During the Great Depression, Ney was commissioned to paint an abstract mural for the New London, Ohio post office by the US Treasury Department, a controversial move that nevertheless gained Ney recognition and exposure.

Indeed, his works were included in 15 years of exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York from 1941-1956.

Currently, his paintings in the permanent collection of the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, as well as at the James Michener Museum in New Hope, PA.