Alice Neel.WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). For much of her life, Alice Neel Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American portrait painter. Her paintings are notable for their expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. was an obscure figurative painter. She worked for the WPA WPA: see Work Projects Administration. WPA in full Works Progress Administration later (1939–43) Work Projects Administration U.S. work program for the unemployed. during the Depression, but Abstract Expressionism drove her underground; then, in the '60s, when she was in her sixties, she blossomed into celebrity. Now comes a full-career retrospective, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art, established in 1875, chartered in 1876. When the city of Philadelphia planned to erect a building to house the Centennial Exposition of 1876, provision was made to keep the building permanently occupied; the Pennsylvania Museum and School . "There's something about history," remarks curator Ann Temkin: "Every time women act up, it's treated as the first time. The feminist eruptions get forgotten. But Alice, in the '30s, decided she could be a woman painter, and the audacity of those works--they're as fresh as anything." June 29--Sept. 1; travels to Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. |
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