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Alice Neel

(American, 1900–1984)

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Alice Neel

Dr. Lucca, 1974

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Alice Neel

Lowry, 1969

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Biography

Timeline

1900
Born in Merion Square, PA. Raised in Colwyn,
1921 - 1925
Moore College of Art ( formerly: Philadelphia School of Design for Women)
1925 - 1927
Lived in Havana, Cuba with husband Carlos Enriquez / First show in Cuba.
1935
Joined WPA/Federal Art Project, Easel Division
1969
Received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1971
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Moore College of Art (formerly Philadelphia School of Design for Women), Philadelphia
1976
Elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1979
Received National Women's Caucus for Art Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art, presented by President Jimmy Carter
1984
Died October 13 in New York

Exhibitions

2019
Alice Neel Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Alice Neel: Freedom, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Neel / Picasso, Sara Kay Gallery, New York
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, David Zwirner, New York
She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York
2018
Alice Neel Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (solo exhibition)
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York
Monuments to Us, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund, The Museum of Modern Art
2017 - 2019
Alice Neel Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2019:
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, London [itinerary: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles]
2017
Alice Neel Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Alice Neel: The Great Society, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin (solo exhibition)
Alice Neel, Uptown, David Zwirner, New York [itinerary: Victoria Miro, London] (solo exhibition)
Figuratively Speaking, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Histórias da sexualidade/Histories of Sexuality, São Paulo Museum of Art
You Are Going on a Trip: Modern and Contemporary Prints from the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
2016
Alice Neel Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki [itinerary: Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France; Deichtorhallen Hamburg] (solo exhibition)
Alice Neel: The Subject and Me, Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh (solo exhibition) Behold the Man, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art By Women, Maccarone, New York
the Davis. ReDiscovered, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Massachusetts
The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Look at Men, Cheim & Read, New York
First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Intimisms, James Cohan, New York
Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Making and Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London
Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Protest, Victoria Miro, London
Rockwell and Realism in the Abstract World, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Sister Chapel, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, New Jersey
These Strangers... Painting and People, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent
Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, The Met Breuer, New York
2015
Alice Neel Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Alice Neel: Drawings and Watercolors 1927-1978, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Alice Neel, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich (solo exhibition)
Alice Neel, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (solo exhibition)
All back in the skull together, Maccarone, New York
America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Forces in Nature: Curated by Hilton Als, Victoria Miro, London
The Great Mother/La Grande Madre, Palazzo Reale, Milan [organized in collaboration with Fondazione Nicola Trussardi as part of Expo in città 2015]
Reimagining Modernism: 1900-1950, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, White Cube, London
2014
Alice Neel Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Alice Neel/Erastus Salisbury Field: Painting the People, Bennington Museum, Vermont
Alice Neel: My Animals and Other Family, Victoria Miro, London (solo exhibition)
Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Solitary Soul, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
To Be a Lady, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapur
Art for Society's Sake: The WPA and Its Legacy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2013
Alice Neel: People and Places. Paintings by Alice Neel, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul (solo)

Public Collections

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Everything, London
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

Literature

2007
Alice Neel: The Cycle of Life, London: Victoria Miro Gallery
2004
Jeremy Lewison, ‘Alice Neel: A Chronicle of Her Times’ in Alice Neel A Chronicle of New York 1950-1976, London: Victoria Miro Gallery
2002
Carr, Carolyn, Alice Neel: Women. Mirror of Identity, New York, Rizzoli Temkin, Ann, ed. Alice Neel. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art
1998
Allara, Pamela. Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery. Hanover: University Press of New England
1996
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. London: Thames and Hudson
1991
Belcher, Gerald and Margaret. Collecting Souls, Gathering Dust: The Struggles of Two American Artists. New York: Paragon House
1985
Castle, Ted, interview with Alice Neel. Alice Neel Paintings since 1970 Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1983
Hills, Patricia. Alice Neel. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Sutherland Harris, Ann, text of lecture by Alice Neel, Alice Neel: Painting 1933 – 1982. Los Angeles: Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University
1979
Munro, Eleanor. Originals: American Women Artists. New York: Simon & Schuster
English (US)

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