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	Alice Neel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alice Neel was born in the rural town of Colwyn, Pennsylvania.
		Neel often said that she chose to attend an all-girls school so as not to be distracted from her art by the temptations of the opposite sex.
		Neel’s second son, Hartley, was born in 1941 to Neel and her lover, Communist intellectual Sam Brody.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alice_Neel (832 words)

	Alice Neel - AMAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Typical of Neel's portraiture, the Oberlin painting is attentive to facial characteristics--lines, shadows, wrinkles, asymmetries--that portray both literal appearance and a characteristic movement of mind.
		From then on, Neel continued to develop themes she had already addressed in the 1920s--portraits of famous, odd, and often poor people, as well as still lifes and cityscapes--laid down in thick, dark layers of paint, in a style that drew from 1930s North American realism and Latin American social realism and expressionism.
		Neel's personal life continued to be unconventional and difficult (she had several children, fathered by several different men).
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/neel_alice.html (934 words)

	Alice Neel
		The "before" is seen in the article's image of Neel, a photograph taken by Sam Brody in 1944 that shows her sitting listlessly with folded hands, surrounded by stacks of paintings that almost edge her out of the shot.
		Neel's signature remained as it had always been, inscribed at a diagonal and underlined in a lower corner of the canvas, but now it was painted in big, bold letters that became an active part of the composition.
		Hands especially are the focus of Neel's characterizations, as they have been for portraitists through the ages, establishing rhyming connections between figures (Linda Nochlin and Daisy, 1973) and revealing emotions or traits that the face might not (Ellen Johnson, 1976).
	www.artchive.com /artchive/N/neel.html (1053 words)

	Alice's Wonderland
		Neel lived an unconventional life, but ironically it was her down-to-earth, self-effacing personality (mom/grandmother — not stereotypical artiste) that may have kept her career from being treated seriously by critics and curators of the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s.
		Neel continued to stretch the boundaries of the portrait, sometimes poignantly or humorously revealing flaws or showing her subjects in undignified poses.
		Neel appears self-critical but pleasant, while the folds of her aging flesh seem chastened by the crisp blue and white stripes of her chair.
	citypaper.net /articles/022201/ae.art.alice.shtml (681 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Go Ask Alice: Alice Neel's telling portraits of friends, family and art-world types
		Portraitist Alice Neel has said that "Art is not as stupid as human conversation," and, in the case of her paintings, she is right.
		Neel's commitment to representing the figure, even when abstraction was the trend, led her to paint the people around her.
		This is the ultimate demonstration of self-confidence: Neel lets her sitters emerge from the raw canvas, sometimes leaving large amounts of space unmarked, as though saying, "I don't need to fill that in; what I have done is enough." And she would be right to say so.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=101801 (977 words)

	The Art of Alice Neel
		Among the highlights of "The Art of Alice Neel" is the nude portrait of Isabetta (1934), in which the artist portrays her young daughter in an assertive pose that contrasts strikingly with 19th-century depictions of childhood innocence.
		Neel's revelatory paintings from the decades between 1930 and 1960 shed new light on the body of work for which she is most famous: the portraits created in the last two decades of her life.
		Neel's keen observation and sense of the uncanny are equally powerful in her still lifes and interiors, such as the unexpected image of a capon defrosting in the sink (Thanksgiving, 1965).
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/1aa/1aa668.htm (1191 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| Heroes and wretches
		By the end of her life, Neel was painting a pretty rarefied milieu - society figures, the upper echelons of the art world - and she captured them perfectly, down to the colour of the nail polish they wore, the soft leather of their handmade shoes.
		Alice always said she had the life she wanted and she got on with her life as she got on with her painting." It is almost a cliché to say that to be an artist you have somehow to detach yourself from the business of life, but this is what Neel did.
		Neel suffered a breakdown, there were two suicide attempts, and for a while she was hospitalised.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1226059,00.html (1839 words)

	Alice Neel's Paintings on Exhibit at Whitman College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the finest American painters of her generation, Alice Neel was born in 1900.
		Neel disliked being called a portraitist; she called herself a "collector of souls." Both critics and the subjects of her paintings spoke of Neel's ability to portray the dynamics of relationships.
		The importance of the family for Neel is reflected in her portraits of her sons and their wives and children, some of her best-known subjects.
	www.whitman.edu /news/bignews/alice2.html (582 words)

	Alice Neel Bio
		She emphasizes the person as a particular person - not as a contemporary icon (Warhol), not as a source of formal invention (Pearlstein), not as a signifier of social milieu (Katz), and not as a display of depersonalized technique (Close).
		Neel exploits them both but always there is a point of view, an insight that is her own.
		Nonetheless, they teach us all we can learn from Alice Neel about traditional portraiture in America just as her emergence from obscurity exemplifies the changes women have wrought in gender equality in American society at the end of the 20th century.
	www.mbergerart.com /neel/about2.htm (281 words)

	Alice Neel - 1978 Magazine Review
		No intellectual, she: Neel's life and art tell us that the vitality of freedom dwells elsewhere than in the cerebrum, and that its price is high.
		For the rest of her career, whenever Neel will turn to subjects relating to womanhood—the maternity ward, mothers with babies, her own children, her grandchildren—she will treat them as one more confrontation with life and with personality, an especially promising arena for her magic brush and her merciless eye.
		The claim that Alice Neel perfectly captures the character of her sitters falls wide of the mark.
	www.virginiamiller.com /exhibitions/1970s/AliceNeel.html (994 words)

	Frigatezine- Art: Alice Neel: Courage and Truth
		Alice died a little every day her baby was away, yet she stayed with her no-saying mother.
		Both John and Alice have lowered eyes and seem preoccupied with their private activities yet are comfortably intimate in the circumstances.
		Alice Neel, who died in 1984, summed up her life in art with a characteristic searching exactitude that echoes Auden: "I told the truth as I perceived it, and, considering the way one is bombarded by reality, did the best and most honest art of which I was capable.
	www.frigatezine.com /review/art/rar02nee.html (1749 words)

	A Brush with History - Portraits
		At the age of seventy, Alice Neel said that the closest she ever came to a self-portrait was the image of an empty chair by an apartment window.
		Neel studied art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women from 1921 to 1925.
		A string of lovers left Neel with two sons, a situation that made life even more challenging when her support from the Works Progress Administration ceased in 1943.
	www.npg.si.edu /cexh/brush/index/portraits/neel.htm (211 words)

	SDMA: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alice Neel's Feminist Portraits, Women Artists, Writers, Activists and Intellectuals, an exhibition organized by the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will open on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 in the West Wing gallery.
		Alice Neel burst into the art scene in the 1970's with her paintings of public figures like Bella Abzug, Ed Koch and Andy Warhol.
		Neel enjoyed some recognition during the 1930s and 1940s through her involvement in the Public Works of Art Project and the Works Project Administration (WPA)/Federal Art Project.
	www.newpaltz.edu /museum/archive.cfm?id=14 (368 words)

	ARTTalk - FREE Copy - Vol. 10, No. 11 - Artist Profile
		Neel used her artistic talent to reveal the individual personalities of her subjects.
		The mother of two daughters and two sons, Alice Neel had her share of unpleasant relationships, personal hardships and tragedy--failed romances, loss of an infant daughter, deaths of both parents, and a sensitivity to other's suffering--that tainted her creativity.
		“Alice Neel” is at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, through September 17 and then travels to the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, from Oct. 7 to Dec. 31, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
	www.arttalk.com /archives/vol-10/artv1011-1.htm (784 words)

	Morning Edition - Alice Neel
		Now, 17 years after Neel's death, a full-scale retrospective of her work opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art the weekend of February 16-18.
		Neel commented that "the reason I did it was because my own face bores me. I can't bear that little Anglo-Saxon face.
		Neel is naked in the painting, save for a pair of eyeglasses, which was her way of saying "look, I'm someonebody who looks.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2001/feb/010216.aliceneel.html (393 words)

	NMWA \| Private Collection \| Profile - Alice Neel
		Alice Neel endured an extraordinarily difficult life to become one of the century's most powerful portrait painters.
		Raised in rural Pennsylvania, Neel turned her back on middle-class society by becoming a professional artist, an ardent political activist, and a resident of a poor urban neighborhood.
		Even when Neel's sitters are clothed, they seem naked given the artist's uncanny ability to reveal their personalities.
	www.nmwa.org /collection/profile.asp?LinkID=630 (335 words)

	Alice Neel :: Mojo Portfolio
		Neel's revolutionary nude portraits of figures such as her young daughter Isabetta and the bohemian icon Joe Gould are still audacious images.
		Employed by the W.P.A. during the Great Depression, Neel painted scenes of the city street that reflect her trenchant concern for the dispossessed: striking workers, impoverished families, and the homeless.
		Neel's astounding emergence, late in life, corresponded with the dawning of the women's movement and with the art world's reawakened interest in the human figure.
	www.mojoportfolio.com /artist_search/neel.html (318 words)

	WAC \| Visual Arts \| Exhibition \| Alice Neel
		Alice Neel's daring portraits of people and places are among the most insightful images in 20th-century American art.
		Neel's watercolors and paintings convey individual psychology and social situations with a boldly personal approach that has roots in the expressionistic works of artists as varied as Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and Diego Rivera.
		Neel's revolutionary portraits such as the defiant pose of her young daughter Isabetta, the poignant picture of Andy Warhol, and her own self-portrait at the age of 80 remain audacious images today.
	www.walkerart.org /archive/2/AC73E178D65785B96165.htm (960 words)

	UAM: Kinships: Alice Neel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Neel painted her daughter-in-law, Nancy, nude and in the last week of pregnancy.
		Neel's work is remarkable for including at least eight pregnant nudes.
		Directly behind Nancy's head hangs Neel's drawing of Richard, the husband, father, and son.
	www.uam.ucsb.edu /Pages/pregnant_woman.html (89 words)

	Alice Neel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Neel guided me into the living room that was her studio during the day and right there and then placed me on the couch: That's it.
		She was an insider of the outsiders, the quintessential bohemian, the radical single-mom artist who finally makes good at the age of 74 with a retrospective at the Whitney.
		I told the group that Pamela Allara in her book "Pictures of People: Alice Neel’s American Portrait Gallery" calls the John Perreault painting the apotheosis of the liberated gay male.
	www.johnperreault.com /_wsn/page16.html (2447 words)

	National Museum of Women in the Arts
		A self-proclaimed “collector of souls,” Alice Neel (1900—84) is known for her bold, candid portraits.
		Despite the art world’s infatuation with abstraction in the 1940s and 50s, Neel refused to adjust her painting style, persisting instead in painting raw images of real people.
		Alice Neel’s Women, a collection of approximately 80 paintings and drawings, examines these portraits as a central facet of Neel’s oeuvre that chronicles the evolution of American social mores as well as Neel’s personal and artistic growth.
	www.nmwa.org /exhibition/detail.asp?exhibitid=131 (200 words)

	Alice Neel at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
		Neel spent a year in Havana, then moved with her husband to New York City, where she remained the rest of her life.
		Neel's nude portraits of figures such as her young daughter Isabetta and the bohemian icon Joe Gould are still audacious.
		Alice Neel was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art with the support of The William Penn Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Alice's List, a consortium of individual donors.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/2aa/2aa410.htm (964 words)

	WOMEN MAKE MOVIES \| Alice Neel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alice Neel has been acclaimed as one of the most profound portrait painters of the modern era.
		This fascinating documentary chronicles Neel's career from an early marriage to a Cuban painter, through the Depression and her work with the WPA, to her long residence in Spanish Harlem.
		ALICE NEEL is part of a trilogy on women artists called THEY ARE THEIR OWN GIFTS.
	www.wmm.com /filmcatalog/pages/c325.shtml (182 words)

	Alice Neel Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
		Max White 1935 Alice Neel oil on linen 36 x 26 in.
		Alice Neels daring portraits of people and places are am...
		Alice Neel's daring portraits of people and places are among the most insightful images in 20th-...
	www.absolutearts.com /masters/n/neel-alice.html (204 words)

	Alibris: Alice Neel
		This centennial salute focuses renewed attention on one of the preeminent American artists of the 20th century and accompanies a traveling retrospective organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
		Alice Neel's remarkable drawings are intimate explorations of her personal life: her loves and her family, her friends, people she met in New York and the art world.
		Alice Neel : the woman and her work : 7 September-19 October 1975.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Neel,Alice (159 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Alice Neel's Women
		Neel did four portraits of Lida Moser in her lifetime.
		Lida Moser was one of Alice Neel's closest friends, and I love to hear her stories about how in the 40s, 50s and 60s Neel's work was ignored by the critics and art world because she refused to change her work to "fit" the prevailing abstract styles in vogue during those years.
		Lida Moser also recalls how, when Neel began to get recognition in the 1970s, especially after her retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974, male artists in the NY art scene openly resented her success because she was a woman.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/08/06/151645.php (639 words)

	Amazon.com: Alice Neel: Books: Ann Tempkin,Richard Flood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The centennial of painter Neel's birth has inspired the first retrospective of her unsettling, psychologically acute portraits in 25 years, a reaffirmation of the sly power of her work, her unusual personality, and her courageously artistic life at a time when women artists were much maligned.
		But Neel persevered, raising two sons on her own in Spanish Harlem, where she labored in near obscurity for two decades, painting portraits of neighbors, family, and acquaintances until finally achieving the serious attention she deserved.
		Neel herself is fascinating, and her paintings startle, challenge, and engage.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810942151?v=glance (1129 words)

	Carolyn Robinson by Alice Neel: rendering the barbarity of life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Neel has made it clear that there has been no seminal portrait artist for our time, no Daumier or Manet, who expressed the fate of humanity at a specific moment of history.
		Neel took up the challenge to render not the surface but the character of her sitters, jostled and scarred though they may be.
		Lacking any glamour, with their tentative postures and less than sterling physiques in plain view, they struggle, like Daumier’s bourgeoisie, to appear in control in the midst of their overly exposed vulnerabilities.
	thegalleriesatmoore.org /publications/cassatt/carolyn.html (269 words)

	Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Claire Moore, Elisabeth Frink
		Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Claire Moore, and Elisabeth Frink
		LICE NEEL really deserves her own page, but I’ve put Louise Bourgeois, Claire Moore, and Elisabeth Frink here too.
		Belcher, Gerald L. and Margaret L. Collecting Souls, Gathering Dust: The Struggles of Two American Artists, Alice Neel and Rhoda Medary.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/karlahuebner/neeletc.htm (638 words)

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