Alice Neel

Alice Neel, a defiant 20th-century American portraitist, captured the raw psychological depth of her subjects, from family to Communist leaders.

ABOUT

Born in 1900, Alice Neel challenged artistic conventions throughout her career, becoming one of the most significant American portrait painters of the 20th century. Raised in a lower-middle-class family in rural Pennsylvania, Neel pursued art despite limited expectations for women at the time. After working for three years to support her family, she enrolled in the Philadelphia School of Design for Women in 1921, embracing the realism of the Ashcan School over the popular Im…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Kenneth Fearing 1935 · Museum of Modern Art Well Baby Clinic 1928 · Minneapolis Institute of Art Ethel Ashton 1930 · Tate Kenneth Dolittle 1931 · Tate Investigation of Poverty at the Russell Sage Foundation 1933 · Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Cityscape 1934 · National Gallery of Ireland

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Robert HenriAshcan School