In the 1978 documentary "Alice Neel: They Are Their Own Gifts," the artist said, "One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by, right hot off the griddle. ... "With me, painting was ...
Alice Neel has a fascinatingly eccentric place in pop culture. A few years ago, I did a bunch of research to review her show at the Metropolitan Museum, but you don’t always get to use all the ...
Photo by Ben Davis. Alice Neel painted “the human comedy.” It’s a phrase she repeated often in interviews and in text, throughout her life. It is the title of one of the sections of “ Alice Neel: ...
More than 25 years after her death in 1984, American painter is once again capturing the art world's attention. In part, the resurgence is because of Phoebe Hoban's new book on the artist's ...
The painter Alice Neel (1900–1984) only started to be recognized as a visionary after her time had passed. Her first major exhibition came when she was already 71 years old, at her alma mater, the ...
Opening March 22 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Alice Neel: People Come First,” the artist’s first New York museum retrospective in 20 years, features more than 100 of Neel’s paintings, drawings ...
Alice Neel was a painter who lived in Harlem. Her entire life, she created portraits of (mostly) New Yorkers, seated in their kitchens, at bars, among loved ones, gazing out their windows. As Neel ...
Alice Neel was an American painter known for her Expressionistic portraits of her friends, family, and lovers. Her dynamic use of color and line captured the interior emotional life of her sitters, ...
When Alice Neel painted Andy Warhol in 1970, he chose to sit topless with his eyes clamped shut. Then 70 years old, Neel was good at talking people out of their clothes; she saw disrobing them as a ...
Phoebe Hoban’s carefully written biography, "Alice Neel: the Art of Not Sitting Pretty," chronicles the brilliant, Bohemian and sometimes tormented life of Alice Neel, one of the great American ...
At a New York gallery in 1980, the artist Alice Neel unveiled a portrait of herself holding a paintbrush and sitting in front of a canvas while completely nude. Neel's brave and unflinching ...
In the 1978 documentary "Alice Neel: They Are Their Own Gifts," the artist said, "One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by, right hot off the griddle. ... "With me, painting was ...
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