Alice neel

Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Time: 3:30 PM Location: Rare Book Room Contact Information: Kelly Wooten, 919-660-5967 or kelly.wooten(at)duke.edu The summer research project season is in full swing! Next Tuesday, Katie Anania, graduate student in Art History at the University of Texas-Austin and recipient of a Mary Lily Research Grant, will discuss her research on … Continue reading Drawing Feminism →

Author and art historian Katy Hessel on the American artist's portraits of her family.

Alice Neel (Merion Square, Pennsylvania, January 28, 1900 - October 13, 1984) was an American artist known for her oil on canvas portraits of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers. Her paintings are notable for their expressionistic use of line and colour, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity.

Dubbed by an art critic a "collector of souls," Alice Neel portrayed an extraordinary variety of sitters, from the anonymous to the highly recognizable, as in this portrait of the renowned Pop artist Andy Warhol. Here, Neel captures the vulnerability of an artist whose work and public persona were famous for their cool detachment. When in public, Warhol typically cloaked himself in a variety of guises—wigs, makeup, sunglasses, and a practiced air of disinterestedness. He once remarked…

The subject of the hugely popular show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art immortalized alumni, faculty and neighbors in her groundbreaking work.

The first retrospective of painter Alice Neel in two decades is scheduled to come to San Francisco in 2022.

Alice Neel's "Priscilla Johnson." Longtime favorite.

A retrospective at the Met, “People Come First,” shows the artist’s deep feeling for all that she is not, Hilton Als writes.