28.01.1900–13.10.1984

Alice Neel

Alice Neel (1900–1984) was an American artist from Gladwin, known as a distinguished portrait painter. She also worked in landscape, still life, allegory, genre painting, and nudes, associated with expressionism, anarchism, and social realism.

Alice Neel
DescriptionPortrait of Alice Neel.

Biography

Alice Neel was born on January 28, 1900, in Gladwin, USA. She was a visual artist known broadly as a painter, draftsman, lithographer, sculptor, and photographer. Alice Neel is recognized as a distinguished portrait master and also worked in various painting genres including landscape, still life, allegory, genre scenes, nudes, and urban landscapes. Her work was associated with expressionism, anarchism, and social realism. Culturally and nationally, she belonged to the United States. Alice Neel passed away on October 13, 1984, in New York.

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Lynn Gilbert; Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0.

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