HIlton Als on Alice Neel’s paintings of subjects in Harlem, from a forthcoming book of her work.
Alice Neel Maynard Stone, 1964 Oil on canvas 52 x 32 inches (132.1 x 81.3 cm)
Alice Neel, Self-Portrait,1980 Alice Neel's self-portrait at eighty...she once said,"I'm cursed t...
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I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. La carrière d’Alice Neel s’est déroulée dans le plus grand anonymat pendant près de quarante ans, réalisant des portraits d’hommes et de femmes,...
Neel is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Alice Neel’s portraits are rarely serene but always memorable. The new book Painter of Modern Life demonstrates how her early paintings range from the unsettling to the disturbing. Her later paintings largely eschew melodrama, but they are always uneasy, inviting the viewer into a direct and often alarming intimacy with their subjects. Awkwardness abounds, and with it sometimes dark comedy.
A new exhibition of portraits by Alice Neel (1900–1984) brings twentieth- century America to life through faces old and young. Painted over a
The twentieth-century figurative painter Alice Neel reflected that, “My psychiatrist once told me that I got interested in painting portraits because...
Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the twentieth century. She was also a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people, landscape and still life, Neel was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements. Sympathetic to the expressionist spirit of northern Europe and Scandinavia and to the darker arts of Spanish painting, she painted in a style and with an approach distinctively her own.
A retrospective at The Guggenheim Bilbao explores the late American painter’s work by shining a light on key figures that shaped it
Alice’s love of art and her determination ensured she did well gaining a number of awards for her portraiture. In the summer of 1924 she attended the summer school at Chester Springs organised by …
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. La carrière d’Alice Neel s’est déroulée dans le plus grand anonymat pendant près de quarante ans, réalisant des portraits d’hommes et de femmes,...
Neel is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Alice Neel had been receiving money for her involvement with the Works Project Administration (WPA). The WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unem…
Alice Neel, Self-Portrait,1980 Alice Neel's self-portrait at eighty...she once said,"I'm cursed t...
The following article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Women in the Arts Alice Neel (1900-84) was a hero to a generation of women artists who, in the 1960s…
Get a look inside "Alice Neel, Uptown," an exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery curated by Hilton Als, here.
Neel is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
HIlton Als on Alice Neel’s paintings of subjects in Harlem, from a forthcoming book of her work.
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The great US artist Alice Neel lived and painted in uptown New York when it was almost exclusively black and Hispanic. As a show of portraits of her neighbours and friends comes to London, its curator, Hilton Als, discusses some of his favourite images
The first retrospective of painter Alice Neel in two decades is scheduled to come to San Francisco in 2022.
