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Alice Neel: Hot Off
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Barbican, London
February 16, 2023 –
May 21, 2023
The Griddle
Barbican, London
February 16, 2023 –
May 21, 2023
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Neel at Barbican Centre, London
The largest exhibition to date in the UK of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) whose vivid portraits capture the shifting social and political context of the American twentieth century.
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Guardian
‘She created a space where people could reveal themselves’: the unique portraits of Alice Neel
FT
Alice Neel was a painter of people — and clothes ... her portraits have a sharp eye for fashion too
Observer
Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle; Action, Gesture, Paint – review
Observer
‘She really wanted to see my labia piercing’: what was it like to be painted by Alice Neel?
FT 2
Alice Neel, Barbican review — sharp portraits get under the skin
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Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle
Barbican, London
February 16 –
May 21, 2023
Barbican, London
February 16 –
May 21, 2023
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Neel at Barbican Centre, London
The largest exhibition to date in the UK of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) whose vivid portraits capture the shifting social and political context of the American twentieth century.
Visit their website
Visit their website
Guardian
She created a space where people could reveal themselves’: the unique portraits of Alice Neel
FT
Alice Neel was a painter of people — and clothes ... her portraits have a sharp eye for fashion too
Observer
Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle; Action, Gesture, Paint – review
Guardian 2
‘She really wanted to see my labia piercing’: what was it like to be painted by Alice Neel?
FT 2
Alice Neel, Barbican review — sharp portraits get under the skin
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Pompidou
Un regard engagé
An Engaged Eye
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
October 5, 2022 –
January 16, 2023
An Engaged Eye
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
October 5, 2022 –
January 16, 2023
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Neel at Centre Pompidou Paris
An icon of militant feminism and a precursor of an intersectional approach, Neel often painted women – nudes who were a far cry from the traditional paradigm shaped by the male view and devoid of any sentimentality. The exhibition was divided into two parts structured freely around the notions of class and gender struggle. In total, some 75 paintings and drawings were on display. Visit their website.
Le Monde
At the Centre Pompidou, realist painter Alice Neel emerges from obscurity
Art Newspaper
While her New York peers were fighting over the future of abstraction, Alice Neel was urgently capturing life
Les Echoes
Discovering the American painter Alice Neel
A la découverte de la peintre américaine Alice Neel
A la découverte de la peintre américaine Alice Neel
Judith Benhamoud, Les Echoes, November 4, 2022
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The Human Comedy
of Alice Neel
La comédie humaine
d’Alice Neel
of Alice Neel
La comédie humaine
d’Alice Neel
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Un regard engagé
An Engaged Eye
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
October 5, 2022 –
January 16, 2023
An Engaged Eye
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
October 5, 2022 –
January 16, 2023
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Neel at Centre Pompidou Paris
An icon of militant feminism and a precursor of an intersectional approach, Neel often painted women – nudes who were a far cry from the traditional paradigm shaped by the male view and devoid of any sentimentality. It was structured freely around the notions of class and gender struggle. Visit their website
Le Monde
At the Centre Pompidou, realist painter Alice Neel emerges from obscurity
Art Newspaper
While her NY peers were fighting over the future of abstraction, Alice Neel was urgently capturing life
Les Echoes
Discovering the American painter Alice Neel / A la découverte de la peintre américaine Alice Neel
Beaux Arts
The Human Comedy of Alice Neel / La comédie humaine d’Alice Neel
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de Young
People Come First
de Young museum
San Francisco
March 12, 2022 –
July 10, 2022
de Young museum
San Francisco
March 12, 2022 –
July 10, 2022
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Neel at de Young museum San Francisco
Alice Neel was one of the twentieth century’s most radical painters. This was the first comprehensive West Coast retrospective of Neel’s work. The award-winning exhibition included paintings, drawings, and watercolors, along with additional artworks and media exclusive to the San Francisco show. Installation view photograph by Gary Sexton, courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Visit their website.
ABC7
Click here to watch an interview with Lauren Palmore, Assistant Curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. She describes Neel as "Decades ahead of her time in her sympathy for her neighbors in Spanish Harlem, for LGBTQ+ couples, for creatives of all walks of life. She saw everyone's innate humanity. That's what really set her apart..."
ABC7 News
March 13, 2022
March 13, 2022
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Blackbook
This past July 12, a New York Times headline blared what practically sounded like the launch of a full-blown campaign: It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon. They were right; and it should be stated that said pantheon does not just include the top female artists of her generation, but arguably all of the most prominent American artists of the 20th Century. Read more
Nena Hawke
Blackbook
March 15, 2022
Blackbook
March 15, 2022
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San Fran examiner
How could an artist of such relaxed countenance plunge the depths of human existence with such detail and empathy ... without taking on some of those very depths? That’s one of the many questions that art-goers will have as they traverse an exhibit that reveals an artist who was both of her time and ahead of her time in the way she spotlighted people and scenes the art world had previously ignored. Read more
Jonathan Curiel
The San Francisco Examiner
March 10, 2022
The San Francisco Examiner
March 10, 2022
KQED
That thrilling combination of representation and abstraction is so contemporary, it’s possible to now take the radicalness of Neel’s work for granted. But one need only to look at Childbirth (1939), thought to be one of the first Western paintings to represent a woman giving birth, to understand how Neel’s desire to depict all aspects of life made her work so remarkable. Read more
Sarah Hotchkiss
KQED
March 11, 2022
KQED
March 11, 2022
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People Come First
de Young museum
San Francisco
March 12, 2022 –
July 10, 2022
de Young museum
San Francisco
March 12, 2022 –
July 10, 2022
Elenka
de Young details
Neel at de Young museum San Francisco
The first West Coast retrospective of Neel’s work. The award-winning exhibition included paintings, drawings, and watercolors, along with additional artworks and media exclusive to San Francisco. Installation view photograph by Gary Sexton, courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Visit their website
ABC7
Click here to watch an interview with Lauren Palmore, Assistant Curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. She describes Neel as "Decades ahead of her time in her sympathy for her neighbors in Spanish Harlem, for LGBTQ+ couples, for creatives of all walks of life.."
ABC7 News
March 13, 2022
March 13, 2022
Elenka
Blackbook
A New York Times headline blared what practically sounded like the launch of a full-blown campaign: It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon. They were right ... said pantheon does not just include the top female artists of her generation, but arguably all of the most prominent US artists of the 20th Century. Read more
Nena Hawke, Blackbook
March 15, 2022
March 15, 2022
San Fran examiner
How could an artist of such relaxed countenance plunge the depths of human existence with such detail and empathy ... without taking on some of those very depths? An artist who was both of her time and ahead of her time in the way she spotlighted people and scenes the art world had previously ignored. Read more
Jonathan Curiel, The San Francisco Examiner
March 10, 2022
March 10, 2022
business man
KQED
That thrilling combination of representation and abstraction is so contemporary, it’s possible to now take the radicalness of Neel’s work for granted. But one need only to look at Childbirth (1939), thought to be one of the first Western paintings to represent a woman giving birth, to understand how Neel’s desire to depict all aspects of life... More
Sarah Hotchkiss
KQED
March 11, 2022
KQED
March 11, 2022
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Guggenheim
People Come First
Guggenheim
Bilbao, Spain
September 17, 2021 –
February 6, 2022
Guggenheim
Bilbao, Spain
September 17, 2021 –
February 6, 2022
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Neel at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
This was the first Spanish retrospective of American artist Alice Neel. The ambitious exhibition positioned Neel as one of the century’s most radical painters. Neel was a champion of social justice – whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life as well as her art, as demonstrated in approximately one hundred paintings, drawings, and watercolors that appeared. Installation images courtesy Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Visit the Guggenheim website
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People Come First
Guggenheim
Bilbao, Spain
September 17 –
February 6, 2022
Guggenheim
Bilbao, Spain
September 17 –
February 6, 2022
Elenka
Elenka
Guggenheim details
Neel at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
This was the first Spanish retrospective of American artist Alice Neel, and this ambitious exhibition positioned Neel as one of the century’s most radical painters, a champion of social justice whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life as well as her art. Installation images courtesy Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Visit the Guggenheim website
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Recent Show
People Come First
March 22, 2021 –
August 1, 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
People Come First
March 22, 2021 –
August 1, 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
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Met intro
People Come First
Neel was a longtime resident of New York, and the city served as her most faithful subject. Indeed, the sum total of her work testifies to the drama of its streets, the quotidian beauty of its buildings, and, most importantly, the diversity, resilience, and passion of its residents. “For me, people come first,” Neel declared in 1950. “I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being.”
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Visit the Met website
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A selection of work in the People Come First exhibition at the Met
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Recent Show
People Come First
March 22, 2021 –
August 1, 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
People Come First
March 22, 2021 –
August 1, 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Elenka
Met intro
Neel was a longtime resident of New York, and the city served as her most faithful subject. Indeed, the sum total of her work testifies to the drama of its streets, the quotidian beauty of its buildings, and, most importantly, the diversity, resilience, and passion of its residents. “For me, people come first,” Neel declared in 1950. “I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being.”
Pictures intro
A selection of paintings in the Met exhibition People Come First
Elenka Small
Elenka 1936
Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian 1978
Geoffrey Hendricks
and Brian 1978
and Brian 1978
Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd 1970
Jackie Curtis and
Ritta Redd 1970
Ritta Redd 1970
Elizabeth 1984
Elizabeth 1984
Synthesis of New York 1933
Synthesis of
New York 1933
New York 1933
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Sunset Riverside Drive 1961
Sunset Riverside
Drive 1961
Drive 1961
Hartley 1965 Oil on Canvas
Hartley 1965
Andy Warhol 1970
Andy Warhol 1970
Warhol
Pregnant
Pregnant Julie
and Algis 1967
and Algis 1967
All Shows
Xavier Hufkens
Seeing who we are
David Zwirner
The Early YearsFondation Beyeler
Close-Up
Seeing who we are
David Zwirner
The Early Years
Fondation BeyelerClose-Up
Xavier
Alice Neel:
Seeing who we are
Xavier Hufkens
Brussels
January 27 –
March 5, 2022
Seeing who we are
Xavier Hufkens
Brussels
January 27 –
March 5, 2022
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Neel at Xavier Hufkins, Brussels
Painted over a fifty-year period, this thoughtfully selected group of paintings includes many never previously exhibited works, illuminating the creative evolution of her oeuvre across the decades. Pairing portraits of youth with the elderly, we are led to reflect on life’s most meaningful questions: when do we become who we are? And how have we changed? Visit the Xavier Hufkens website.
Zrimer
Alice Neel:
The Early Years
David Zwirner
New York
September 9 –
October 16, 2021
The Early Years
David Zwirner
New York
September 9 –
October 16, 2021
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Zwerner details
Neel at David Zwirner, New York
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Alice Neel (1900–1984) from the first decades of the artist’s influential career. On view at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location, the focused presentation centers around works from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and includes interiors, memory paintings, New York City streetscapes, and intimate portraits of family and others close to Neel.
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The New York Times
September 30, 2021
‘Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now.’ By Will Heinrich
‘Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now.’ By Will Heinrich
The canvases in “Alice Neel: The Early Years”, at David Zwirner, curated by Ginny Neel, the artist’s daughter-in-law, with Bellatrix Hubert … are arranged, very loosely, in order of size and weight as well as chronology, as if to guide viewers toward a transcendent encounter with the artist’s grown sons. Captured, with Neel’s singular magic … are pulsing, slippery and alive, at once present and opaque. Read here
Fondation Beyeler
Close-Up
Fondation Beyeler
Switzerland
September 19 –
January 2, 2022
Fondation Beyeler
Switzerland
September 19 –
January 2, 2022
Elenka
Fondation Beyeler details
Close-Up at Fondation Beyeler
Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton. The exhibition shows works by women artists occupying prominent positions within the history of modern art from 1870 to the present day. The work by Alice Neel that will be featured is a wonderful painting seldom loaned: Richard at Age Five, 1945.
Fondation Beyeler essay
Close-Up Catalogue
It’s clear that, as with all Neel’s portraits, the proximate and intimate encounter staged in Pregnant Woman is that between the artist and her model... There is nothing abstracted or distant about the encounter. This is a confrontation with the human as a physical and psychological presence.
Portraiture and Proximity Meditations in a Time of Social Distancing. Essay by Tamar Garb. Buy the book
Portraiture and Proximity Meditations in a Time of Social Distancing. Essay by Tamar Garb. Buy the book
All Shows
Xavier Hufkens
Seeing who we are
David Zwirner
The Early YearsFondation Beyeler
Close-Up
Seeing who we are
David Zwirner
The Early Years
Fondation BeyelerClose-Up
Xavier
Alice Neel:
Seeing who we are
Xavier Hufkens
Brussels
January 27 –
March 5, 2022
Seeing who we are
Xavier Hufkens
Brussels
January 27 –
March 5, 2022
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Xavier details
Neel at Xavier Hufkins, Brussels
Pairing portraits of youth with the elderly, we are led to reflect on life’s most meaningful questions: when do we become who we are? And how have we changed? Visit the Xavier Hufkens website.
Zwirmer
Alice Neel:
The Early Years
David Zwirner
New York
September 9 –
October 16, 2021
The Early Years
David Zwirner
New York
September 9 –
October 16, 2021
Elenka
Zwerner details
Neel at David Zwirner, New York
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Alice Neel (1900–1984) from the first decades of the artist’s influential career. On view at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location, the focused presentation centers around works from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and includes interiors, New York City streetscapes, and intimate portraits.
Zwerner NY Times quote
The New York Times
September 10, 2021
‘Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now.’
By Will Heinrich
‘Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now.’
By Will Heinrich
“Alice Neel: The Early Years”, at David Zwirner, curated by Ginny Neel, the artist’s daughter-in-law, with Bellatrix Hubert … are arranged, very loosely, in order of size and weight as well as chronology, as if to guide viewers toward a transcendent encounter with the artist’s grown sons. Read here
Fondation Beyeler
Close-Up
Fondation Beyeler
Switzerland
September 19 –
January 2, 2022
Fondation Beyeler
Switzerland
September 19 –
January 2, 2022
Elenka
Fondation Beyeler details
Close-Up at Fondation Beyeler
Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton. The exhibition shows works by women artists occupying prominent positions within the history of modern art from 1870 to the present day. Neel's work that will be featured is a wonderful painting seldom loaned: Richard at Age Five, 1945.
Fondation Beyeler essay
Close-Up Catalogue
It’s clear that, as with all Neel’s portraits, the proximate and intimate encounter staged in Pregnant Woman is that between the artist and her model... There is nothing abstracted or distant about the encounter. This is a confrontation with the human as a physical and psychological presence.
Portraiture and Proximity Meditations in a Time of Social Distancing. Essay by Tamar Garb. Buy the book
Portraiture and Proximity Meditations in a Time of Social Distancing. Essay by Tamar Garb. Buy the book
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Solo Exhibitions
Neel exhibited widely in America and was recognized as one of America’s great artists, but was rarely noticed in Europe. Exhibitions that toured Europe in 2010 and 2016 resulted finally in her recognition as a world renowned artist. Listed here are Neel’s solo exhibitions from 1926 until the present day.
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2019
Alice Neel: Freedom
28th February 2019 - 13th April 2019
New York, David Zwirner
Catalogue with an introduction by Ginny Neel and an essay by Helen Molesworth
2018
Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont
26th October 2018 - 15th December 2018
Brussels, Xavier Hufkens
Catalogue with essays by Jeremy Lewison and Philip Larrett-Smith
2017
Alice Neel, Uptown
23rd February 2017 - 22nd April 2017
New York, David Zwirner
Catalogue by Hilton Als with an essay by Jeremy Lewison
Alice Neel, Uptown
18th May 2017 - 29th July 2017
London, Victoria Miro
Curated by Hilton Als
Alice Neel, Uptown
15th July 2017 - 16th September 2017
Venice, Victoria Miro
Curated by Hilton Als
Alice Neel: The Great Society
13th October 2017 - 13th January 2018
Berlin, Galerie Aurel Scheibler
Catalogue with essay by Petra Goerdueren
2016
Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life
10th June 2016 - 2nd October 2016
Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum
Catalogue edited by Jeremy Lewison with essays by Bice Curiger, Petra Gördüren, Jeremy Lewison, Laura Stamps and Annamari Vänskä
Alice Neel: The Subject and Me
29th July 2016 - 8th October 2016
Edinburgh, Talbot Rice Gallery
2015
Alice Neel Drawings and Watercolours 1927 - 1978
19th February 2015 - 18th April 2015
New York, David Zwirner
Catalogue with texts by Jeremy Lewison and Claire Messud
Alice Neel
27th February 2015 - 11th April 2015
Brussels, Xavier Hufkens
Alice Neel
1st June 2015 - 23rd October 2015
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art
Catalogue with an essay by Mark Gisborne
2014
Alice Neel. My Animals and Other Family
14th October 2014 - 19th December 2014
London, Victoria Miro Mayfair
Catalogue with essay by Kirsty Bell
2013
Alice Neel: People and Places. Paintings by Alice Neel
2nd May 2013 - 2nd June 2013
Seoul, Gallery Hyundai
Catalogue with essay by Jeremy Lewison
Alice Neel: Intimate Relations
26th May 2013 - 8th September 2013
Skarhamn, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet
Catalogue with essay by Jeremy Lewison
2012
Alice Neel: Late Portraits and Still Lifes
4th May 2012 - 23rd June 2012
New York, David Zwirner
Catalogue
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2011
Alice Neel: Men Only
8th June 2011 - 29th July 2011
London, Victoria Miro
Catalogue
Alice Neel: Family
8th September 2011 - 16th November 2011
Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery
Catalogue with text by Adam Phillips
2010
Alice Neel: Painted Truths
21st March 2010 - 13th June 2010
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, touring to Whitechapel Gallery, London and Moderna Museet, Malmö. Catalogue edited by Jeremy Lewison and Barry Walker. Essays by Tamar Garb, Jeremy Lewison, Robert Storr and Barry Walker and appreciations by Frank Auerbach, Marlene Dumas and Chris Ofili.
Alice Neel: Paintings
20th May 2010 - 26th June 2010
Los Angeles, L A Louver
Alice Neel: Paintings and Drawings
29th October 2010 - 14th January 2011
Berlin, Scheiblermitte
Catalogue with texts by Rebeccah Blum and Jeremy Lewison.
2009
Alice Neel: Nudes of the 1930s
1st May 2009 - 20th June 2009
New York, Zwirner and Wirth
Alice Neel: Selected Works
14th May 2009 - 20th June 2009
New York, David Zwirner
2008
Exhibition of Drawings
28th August 2008 - 6th December 2008
Philadelphia, Moore College of Art and Design
Moderna Museet Now: Alice Neel Collector of Souls
6th September 2008 - 7th December 2008
Stockholm, Skeppsholmen, Moderna Museet
Brochure text by Jeremy Lewison
2007
Alice Neel: The Cycle of Life
23rd May 2007 - 21st July 2007
London, Victoria Miro
Interview with Robert Storr
Alice Neel: Pictures of People
27th September 2007 - 3rd November 2007
Berlin, Galerie Aurel Scheibler
2005
Alice Neel
4th March 2005 - 9th April 2005
Philadelphia, Locks Gallery
1996 Continues
Alice Neel's Women
28th October 2005 - 15th January 2006
Washington D. C., National Museum of Women in the Arts
2004
Alice Neel: A Chronicle of New York 1950-1976
1st June 2004 - 31st July 2004
London, Victoria Miro
Essay by Jeremy Lewison
2003
Alice Neel Drawings
19th September 2003 - 8th November 2003
Arts Club of Chicago
Essay by Courtney Graham Donnell
2002
Duos. Alice Neel's Double Portraits
17th January 2002 - 24th March 2002
Naples, Florida, Naples Museum of Art
Catalogue by Linda Chase
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