Alice Neel received her first museum retrospective in 1974 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. ... they fought for greater exposure for her work. In 1972, when Neel was 72 years old, ...

ROOMS AREN’T SO important in an Alice Neel painting; her focus was on people. Her work, which attests to the cleareyed compassion Neel felt toward humans of all walks of life, reveals the deep ...

Hoban has provided a new introduction, distilling why Neel, who died in 1984, feels more relevant than ever, outlining in her opening paragraph why the artist’s vision and work resonates today ...

Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. ... Neel’s work pumps oxygen into a room choking on the exhaust fumes of identity politics.

One dealer recalls an artist finding two Alice Neel works on the sidewalk in the days when few cared for her art. Alice Neel circa 1980 in New York. Photo by Sonia Moskowitz/Images/Getty Images.

Alice Neel was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1900. How much does an Alice Neel cost? Alice Neel's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ...

Neel, who died at age 84 in 1984, seemed to have emerged into the world fully formed as an artist and bohemian, moving to Havana in her early 20s and immersing herself in the Cuban avant-garde scene.

Alice Neel was an influential artist of the mid-20th century — painting friends, family, peers, lovers, and strangers. But she stayed largely unrecognized until after she died in 1984. Now her work is ...

In 1971, the art critic linda nochlin transformed the art history debate by asking:“Why have there been no great women artists?”, a question with pr ...

Dodgers’ World Series victory, artist Alice Neel’s work in queer world. Oct. 31, 2024. Listen 52 min MORE The Los Angeles Dodgers pose for a picture with the Commissioner’s Trophy after beating the ...

W hen American painter Alice Neel was in her eighties, she would telephone friends just to exclaim, “Guess what, I’m alive!” The artist, known largely for her portraits, loved to paint ...

The late US painter Alice Neel is deservedly undergoing something of a renaissance, with a long-awaited retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (People Come First, 22 March-1 ...