Alice Neel (1900–1984) painted portraits of people she knew—her friends and family, her lovers, the artists, poets, and musicians she spent time with. Sometimes, too, she painted strangers—someone who ...

What the museum says: “‘Alice Neel: People Come First’ is the first museum retrospective in New York of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) in 20 years. This ambitious survey positions Neel as one ...

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, "Hartley with Cat" (1969), oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (© The Estate of Alice Neel; image courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner) For six decades, Alice Neel ...

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 ...

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 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 received her first museum retrospective in 1974 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since then, Neel’s captivating portraits have been the subject of numerous exhibitions and ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Days after seeing "People Come First," a career-spanning Alice Neel survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, an afterimage of her brisk vision of vibrant humanity still pulses ...