Buy Top Products On eBay. Money Back Guarantee! Over 80% New & Buy It Now; This Is The New eBay. Find Great Deals Now! Alice Neel, 28 Jan 1900 - 13 Oct 1984 Date 1980 Type Painting Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Stretcher: 135.3 x 101 x 2.5cm (53 1/4 x 39 3/4 x 1") Frame: 144.8 x 109.2 x 5.1cm (57 x 43 x 2") Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Restrictions & Rights Usage conditions apply Copyright © The Estate of Alice Neel Object number
Hartley 1966 THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON/ESTATE OF ALICE NEEL L'art Du Portrait
Art Learn with Us Research Shop Search The Collection Modern and Contemporary Art Returned to lender Self-Portrait Alice Neel American 1980 Not on view Artwork Details Overview Exhibition History Title: Self-Portrait Artist: Alice Neel (American, Merion Square, Pennsylvania 1900-1984 New York) Date: 1980 Medium: Oil on canvas Elenka, 1936 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Richard Neel and Hartley S. Neel, 1987 /© The Estate of Alice Neel Alice Neel made it to the Met! At last. Born in 1900,. Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 - October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers. Her career spanned from the 1920s to 1980s. [1] Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Born: January 28, 1900 - Merion Square, Pennsylvania Died: October 13, 1984 - New York, NY Movements and Styles: Contemporary Realism , American Realism Alice Neel Summary Accomplishments Important Art Biography Influences and Connections Useful Resources Similar Art and Related Pages "The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy.
Alice Neel’s Portraits of Difference The New Yorker
In making a portrait, one critic observed, Alice Neel "hurls shafts that hit the mark but do not sting," pinpointing the penetrating yet compassionate quality in the figure studies for which she is best known. Neel adhered to portraiture in the midstof the Abstract Expressionist movement and was consequently ignored by the art world until shortly before two retrospective exhibitions held. Self-Portrait Date of entry: May-12-2004 Last revised: Feb-18-2012 Summary In 1980, four years before her death at age 84, Alice Neel painted her first self-portrait. Grasping her paintbrush, the naked artist looks directly at the viewer without concern for pleasing. Artist 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. Five years later she began this shocking, endearing, and unconventional portrait, a project that took another five years to complete. Born in Merion Square, Pennsylvania, Alice Neel graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art) in 1925. She was a portrait painter whose work cut across the social classes. She once described herself as a "collector of souls," and lived much of her adult life in the Spanish Harlem section of New York City.
The Portrait Gallery Alice Neel
In making a portrait, one critic observed, Alice Neel "hurls shafts that hit the mark but do not sting," pinpointing the penetrating yet compassionate qual. Self-Portrait. Date: 1980. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions inches: 53 1/4 x 39 3/4 in. Dimensions cm: 135.3 x 101 cm. Close product quick view. About Neel; Biography; Press;
To never give up." Born in 1900, Neel was brought up in Colwyn, Pennsylvania, about ten miles outside Philadelphia. Colwyn was a nice enough version of the "old," or established, America that. Self Portrait, 1980 Alice Neel Neel's most intrepid and notorious choice of subject matter for a portrait was ironically her self portrait, a customarily innocuous focus. In 1980, when Neel put her signature style and critical view to work on herself, she once more broke away from the beaten path to produce a shocking painting.
Art History News Alice Neel, Uptown
The many portraits in the exhibition, "Alice Neel: People Come First," were of Neel's friends and lovers, or of well-known artists, activists, critics, scholars — including many radicals. Georges Braque. French 1900-2000. From Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Alice Neel, Self-portrait (1980), Oil on canvas, 135.3 × 101 × 2.5 cm.
