Tag Archives: Alice Neel

In Joan Semmel’s Crossed Legs, 2011, the sexuality is more restrained than in her earlier work.
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The Body In Winter

By Posted 05/31/12

Artists are taking on themes of aging, transformation, and decay Read More

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That Seventies Sensibility

By Posted 11/22/11

A wave of exhibitions shows how the open-ended, experimental, hardscrabble, less cynical esthetic of the ’70s is appealing to artists and curators Read More

Alice Neel in a photograph taken by her lover Sam Brody, whom she met at a WPA meeting. SAM BRODY
Books

What Was Neel’s Deal?

By Posted 02/01/11

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
By Phoebe Hoban
St. Martin’s Press, 500 pages, $35 Read More

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The Great American (Male) Nude

By Posted 12/01/10

Turning the tables on art-historical tradition, more women artists are depicting the naked male body. Read More

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Looking at Art

A ‘Desperate Beauty’

By Posted 03/01/10

In her portrait of the Gruen family, Alice Neel tempers her penchant for the grotesque with a touch of the sublime. Read More