Alice Neel was born on January 28, 1900 in Merion Square, Pennsylvania and grew up in Colwyn, Pennsylvania before attending the Philadelphia College of Art and Design (now Moore College of Art) from... Read full biography
Alice Neel was born on January 28, 1900 in Merion Square, Pennsylvania and grew up in Colwyn, Pennsylvania before attending the Philadelphia College of Art and Design (now Moore College of Art) from 1921 until 1925. Her father was a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad; her mother could trace her... Read full biography
Alice Neel was born on January 28, 1900 in Merion Square, Pennsylvania and grew up in Colwyn, Pennsylvania before attending the Philadelphia College of Art and Design (now Moore College of Art) from 1921 until 1925. Her father was a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad; her mother could trace her lineage back to a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She always wanted to be an artist. She is primarily known for the expressive portraits she began to paint shortly after moving to New York... Read full biography
Alice Neel was born on January 28, 1900 in Merion Square, Pennsylvania and grew up in Colwyn, Pennsylvania before attending the Philadelphia College of Art and Design (now Moore College of Art) from 1921 until 1925. Her father was a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad; her mother could trace her lineage back to a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She always wanted to be an artist. She is primarily known for the expressive portraits she began to paint shortly after moving to New York City in 1927. She prefered the term "figure painting" to "portrait" with its connotation of hackwork and flattery. In 1925 Neel married Carlos Enriquez, a fellow artist who took her to Cuba to live with his wealthy family. It was Neel's leap from... Read full biography
Alice Neel was born on January 28, 1900 in Merion Square, Pennsylvania and grew up in Colwyn, Pennsylvania before attending the Philadelphia College of Art and Design (now Moore College of Art) from 1921 until 1925. Her father was a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad; her mother could trace her lineage back to a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She always wanted to be an artist. She is primarily known for the expressive portraits she began to paint shortly after moving to New York City in 1927. She prefered the term "figure painting" to "portrait" with its connotation of hackwork and flattery. In 1925 Neel married Carlos Enriquez, a fellow artist who took her to Cuba to live with his wealthy family. It was Neel's leap from Colwyn into another class and culture, a bohemian life. In 1927 they moved to New York City with their baby dau... Read full biography
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About Alice Neel: Books
Books & Publications (87)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2016
Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
Alice Neel: Painted Truths (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
2010
Garb, Tamar; Lewison, Jeremy; Storr, Robert; Walker, Barry
296 pages (color)
Alice Neel The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
2010
Hoban, Phoebe
512 pages (color)
A Museum of Their Own: National Museum of Women in the Arts
2008
Holladay, Wilhelmina Cole
240 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Great American Nude (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Bruce Museum of Arts and Sci.
68 pages
Alice Neel's Women
2002
Carr, Carolyn
0 pages (color)
Alice Neel: Black and White
2002
Neel, Alice and Young, Amy
0 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery
1998
Allara, Pamela
0 pages (color)
Posters American Style
1998
Heyman, Therese Thau
192 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists
1997
Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer
176 pages (color)
Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
1996
Strueber, Michael (Director)
118 pages (color)
The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture
1996
Wood, James N/T Edelstein
160 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
American Realism-Figurative Painting Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Arthur, John (Curator and Essayist)
64 pages (color)
The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists
1994
Bailey, Brooke
207 pages
Making It New Essays, Interviews and Talks
1994
Geldzahler, Henry
369 pages
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc)
1993
Gardner, James
227 pages
Collecting Souls, Gathering Dust: Struggles Two Artists, Alice Neel & Rhoda
1991
Belchar, Gerlad and Margaret
0 pages
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Mary & Crosby Kemper Collection Selections from Inaugural Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Kemper Gallery Kansas City AI
28 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Women, Art, and Society
1990
Chadwick, Whitney
384 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Gustafson, Donna (others)
191 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections
1989
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
Contemporary Women Artists
1988
Beckett, Wendy
128 pages (color)
The Expressionist Landscape North American Modernist Painting 1920-1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Birmingham Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Women, Art and Power and Other Essays
1988
Nochlin, Linda
181 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Women Artists An Illustrated History
1987
Heller, Nancy
224 pages (color)
National Mus of Women in the Arts
1987
National Museum of Women
253 pages (color)
The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947
1987
Saint Louis Art Museum
225 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1986
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
148 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Alice Neel Drawings and Watercolors (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Robert Miller Gallery
52 pages (color)
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Profiles on Women Artists
1985
Russo, Alexander
258 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marshall, Richard
124 pages
The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Sims, Lowery Stokes
167 pages (color)
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
The Art of New York
1983
Chwast, Seymour/S Heller
190 pages
Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Goodyear, Frank H
91 pages (color)
Alice Neel
1983
Hills, Patricia
208 pages (color)
Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Hills, Patricia
96 pages
Prints A Collector's Guide
1983
Kaplan, Ellen
253 pages
Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler
195 pages (color)
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)