Video

Filmmaker Andrew Neel, Alice Neel’s grandson, puts together the pieces of the painter's life using intimate one-on-one interviews with Neel’s surviving family and personal archival video. The documentary explores the artist’s tumultuous biography and the legacy of Alice Neel’s determination to paint her era.

Katy Hessel, host of 'The Great Women Artists' podcast, walk us through Alice Neel’s exhibition 'Seeing who we are' (2022) at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. The show ran from 27 January – ​5 March 2022.


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Alice Neel speaks about her life and work.


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Books

2018

Sullivan, Edward. Making the Americas Modern. Hemispheric Art, 1910-1960. London: Lawrence King Publishing Ltd, 2018, pp. 11, 165-166.
Smith, Jessica Todd. American Modernism. Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2018.

2016

Enwezor, Okwui et al (ed). Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945–1965, Exhibition Guide. Munich: Haus der Kunst and Prestel, 2016, p.155.

2014

European and American Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art: 60 Masterpieces. Text by David Franklin. Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio and Scala, London, 2014.

2013

Bell, Kirsty. The Artist's House from Workplace to Artwork. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013.

2010

Hoban, Phoebe. Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty. New York: St Martin's Press, 2010.

2007

Leppert, Richard. The Nude. The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2007.

2006

Nochlin, Linda. Bathers, Bodies, Beauty. The Visceral Eye. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

2005

Wagner, Anne Middleton. Mother Stone. The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005, pp. 76-80.

2002

Carr, Carolyn. Alice Neel: Women. New York: Rizzoli, 2002.
Hemingway, Andrew. Artists on the Left. American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926–1956. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2002.

1998

Allara, Pamela. Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery. Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, 1998.

1994

Martínez, Juan A. Cuban Art and National Identity. The Vanguardia Painters 1927-1950. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1994.
Frueh, Joanna. The Body Through Women's Eyes in The Power of Feminist Art. The American Movement of the 1970s. Edited by Norma Broude, Mary D. Garrard and Judith Brodsky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994, pp. 190-207.

1993

Slatkin, Wendy. Alice Neel, 1900-1984 in The Voices of Women Artists, pp. 257-66. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.

1991

Belcher, Gerald L., and Margaret L. Belcher. Collecting Souls, Gathering Dust: The Struggles of Two American Artists, Alice Neel and Rhoda Medary. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

1989

Ward, John L. American Realist Painting, 1945-1980. Ann Arbor, MI: U.M.I. Research Press, 1989.

1987

Heller, Nancy. Women Artists: An Illustrated History. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987.

1986

Luis, Carlos. Carlos Enríquez. Miami: Museo Cubano de Arte y Cultura, 1986.

1985

Russo, Alexander. Alice Neel in Profiles on Women Artists, pp. 196-208. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985.

1983

Hills, Patricia. Alice Neel. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983.

1982

Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the Present. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall and Co., 1982.

1981

Miller, Lynn F. Interview with Alice Neel in Lives and Works: Talks with Women Artists, Volume 1. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981, pp. 123-29.

1979

Diamonstein, Barbaralee. Alice Neel in Inside New York's Art World, pp. 254-63. New York: Rizzoli, 1979.
Munro, Eleanor V. Alice Neel in Originals: American Women Artists, pp. 120-30. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

1977

Park, Marlene, and Gerald E. Markowitz. Alice Neel in New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s with Examples from New York City and State, p. 80. Hamilton, NY: Gallery Association of New York State, 1977.

1975

Neel, Alice in Cindy Nemser. Alice Neel in Art Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artists, pp. 97-122. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975.

1965

Mitchell, Joseph. Joe Gould's Secret. 1965. Reprint, New York: Modern Library, 1996.

1960

A Statement in The Hasty Papers: A One-Shot Review. Edited by Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank, p. 50. New York: Alfred Leslie, 1960.

1958

Kramer, Aaron. The Tune of the Calliope: Poems and Drawings of New York. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958.

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Films

2007

Neel, Andrew. Alice Neel. Directed by Andrew Neel. Produced by SeeThink Productions. DVD. New York: SeeThink Productions, 2007.

2000

Auder, Michel. Portrait of Alice Neel 1976–1982. Produced and directed by Michel Auder. New York: Michel Auder Videos, 2000.

1993

Lambert, Lars. Alice Neel. Produced and directed by Lars Lambert. VHS. 1993.

1976

Baer, Nancy. Alice Neel: Collector of Souls. Produced and directed by Nancy Baer. 16 mm. Washington, D.C.: Cine 16 Films, 1976.

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Solo Catalogue

2018

Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont. Brussels: Xavier Hufkens, 2018. Essays by Jeremy Lewison and Philip Larratt-Smith.

2017

Als, Hilton. Alice Neel: Uptown. New York: David Zwirner Books and Victoria Miro London, 2017. Essays by Jeremy Lewison and Hilton Als.
Alice Neel: The Great Society. Berlin: Aurel Scheibler, 2017. Essay by Petra Goerdueren.

2016

Lewison, Jeremy (ed.). Alice Neel. Painter of Modern Life. Brussels: Mercatorfonds and Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, 2016. Essays by Bice Curiger, Petra Gördüren, Jeremy Lewison, Laura Stamps and Annamari Vänskä.

2015

Lebovici, Elisabeth. Alice Neel. Brussels: Xavier Hufkens, 2015.
Alice Neel Drawings and Watercolours 1927–1978. New York: David Zwirner, 2015. Essays by Jeremy Lewison and Claire Messud.
Gisbourne, Mark. Alice Neel: Portraits of Plenitude in Alice Neel. Zurich: Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, 2015.

2014

Bell, Kirsty. Her Family and Other Animals in Alice Neel. My Animals and Other Family. London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2014.

2013

Lewison, Jeremy. Alice Neel and her Legacy in Alice Neel: People and Places. Paintings by Alice Neel. Seoul: Gallery Hyundai, 2013.
Nordal, Bera (ed.). Alice Neel: Nära Relationer (Intimate Relations). Skärhamn, Sweden: Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, 2013. Preface by Bera Nordal, essay by Jeremy Lewison.

2012

Griffin, Tim. A Scene of Her Selves. In Alice Neel. Late Portraits and Still Lifes. New York and Santa Fe: David Zwirner and Radius Books, 2012.

2011

Hubbard, Sue. Alice Neel; Men Only. London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2011.
Phillips, Adam. Sitting Targets in Alice Neel: Family. Dublin: The Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2011.

2010

Lewison, Jeremy and Barry Walker, eds. Alice Neel. Painted Truths. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010. Essays by Tamar Garb, Jeremy Lewison, Robert Storr and Barry Walker, and appreciations by Frank Auerbach, Marlene Dumas and Chris Ofili.
Alice Neel. Paintings. Venice, CA: L.A. Louver, 2010.
Scheibler, Aurel. Alice Neel. Paintings and Drawings. Berlin: Aurel Scheibler, 2010. Foreword by Rebeccah Blum. Catalogue entries by Jeremy Lewison.

2008

Lewison, Jeremy. Moderna Museet Now. Alice Neel: Collector of Souls. Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2008. Brochure text by Jeremy Lewison.

2007

Storr, Robert. Alice Neel: The Cycle of Life. London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2007. Interview with Robert Storr.
Peyton, Elizabeth. Alice Neel: Pictures of People. Berlin: Galerie Aurel Scheibler, 2007.

2004

Lewison, Jeremy. Alice Neel: A Chronicle of New York 1950–1976. London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2004.

2003

Donnell, Courtney Graham. Alice Neel: Drawings. In Alice Neel: Drawings. Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 2003.

2002

Alice Neel: Black and White. New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 2002.

2000

Temkin, Ann (ed.). Alice Neel. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000. Essays by Ann Temkin, Susan Rosenberg and Richard Flood.

1998

Alice Neel: Men in Suits. New York: Cheim & Read Gallery, 1998. Brochure essay by Richard D. Marshall.
Alice Neel: Men in Suits. New Orleans: Galerie Simonne Stern, 1998. Brochure essay by Andrei Codrescu.

1997

Koestenbaum, Wayne. Alice Neel: Paintings from the Thirties. New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1997.

1991

Geldzahler, Henry. Alice Neel in Spanish Harlem. Bridgehampton, NY: Dia Center for the Arts, 1991.
Allara, Pamela. Exterior/Interior: Alice Neel. Medford, MA: Tisch Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, 1991.

1986

Cheim, John. Alice Neel: Drawings and Watercolors. New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1986.

1985

Castle, Ted. Alice Neel: Paintings Since 1970. Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1985.

1983

Harris, Ann Sutherland. Alice Neel: Paintings 1933–1982. Catalogue by Ann Sutherland Harris, with text of a lecture by Alice Neel. Los Angeles, CA: Loyola Marymount University, Art Gallery, 1983.

1980

Hills, Patricia. Alice Neel: Paintings of Two Decades. Boston, MA: Boston University, 1980.

1979

Alice Neel: A Retrospective Showing (an exhibition in two parts). Bridgeport, CT, and Madison Art Center, WI, 1979.

1978

Bolge, George, and Henry R. Hopeort. Alice Neel. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, 1978.
Harris, Ann Sutherland. Alice Neel: A Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings. Brochure by Ann Sutherland Harris. New York: Graham Gallery, 1978.

1977

Langenstein, Michael. Paintings by Alice Neel. Hagerstown, MD: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 1977. A brochure.

1975

Paul, William D., Jr., and Cindy Nemser. Alice Neel: The Woman and Her Work. Catalogue by William D. Paul, Jr., and Cindy Nemser, with statements by Dorothy Pearlstein, Raphael Soyer and Alice Neel. Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, 1975.

1974

Solomon, Elke M. Alice Neel. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974. A brochure.

1951

Gold, Mike. Paintings by Alice Neel. Brochure text by Mike Gold. New York: New Playwrights Theatre, 1951.

1950

Solman, Joseph. Paintings by Alice Neel. Brochure text by Joseph Solman. New York: A.C.A. Gallery, 1950.

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Group Catalogue

2018

Gillen, Eckhart and Ulrike Lorenz (eds). Constructing the World. Art and Economy 1919-1939. Bielefeld and Berlin: Kerber Verlag and Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2018.

2016

Baum, Kelly, Andrea Bayer and Sheena Wagstaff. Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible. New York: Met Breuer, 2016.
Coomer, Martin. Protest. London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2016.
Drosnos, Nikolas and Romy Golan. Realism as an International Style in Okwui Enwezor (ed), Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945-1965. Munich: Haus der Kunst and Prestel, 2016, p.444.
Hoste, Ann (ed). These Strangers ... Paintings and People. Texts by Bianca Baroni, Kirsty Bell, Iwona Blazwick, Martin Herbert, Ann Hoste, Jeremy Lewison, Yael Lipschutz, Paulina Pobocha and Monika Szewczyk. Gent: SMAK and Roma Publications, Amsterdam, 2016.
Hartog Jager, Hans den. Zie De Mens. Honderd jaar, honderd gezichten. Zwolle: Museum de Fundatie and Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2016.

2015

Als, Hilton. Forces in Nature. London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2015. Texts by Hilton Als.
Gioni, Massimiliano (ed). The Great Mother. Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Culture, 1900-2015. Milan: Fondazione Nicola Trussardi and Skira, 2015.
Rabenmuetter. Zwischen Kraft und Krise: Muetterbilder von 1900 bis heute. Linz: Lentos Kunstmuseum, 2015.
Schwabsky, Barry. Re-inventing Presence in Tight Rope Walk: Painted Images after Abstraction. London: White Cube Bermondsey, 2015.

2014

Fortune, Brandon Brame, Wendy Wick Reeves and David C. Ward. Face Value. Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction. Washington DC: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in association with D Giles Limited, London. Essays by David C. Ward, Wendy Wick Reeves and Brandon Brame Fortune. Poem by John Ashbery.

2009

Scala, Mark W. (ed). Paint Made Flesh. Nashville, TN: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2009. Essays by Susan H. Edwards, Emily Braun, Richard Shiff and Mark W. Scala.
Cullen, Deborah (ed). Nexus New York. Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis. New York, New Haven and London: Museo del Barrio in association with Yale University Press, 2009.

2007

Butler, Cornelia and Lisa Gabrielle Mark (eds). Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Los Angeles: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007.
Hammer, Martin. The Naked Portrait 1900-2007. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2007.
Tricot, Xavier. I Am as You Will Be. New York: Cheim & Read, 2007.

2006

Tuchman, Maurice. The New Landscape/The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art. New York: Cheim & Read, 2006.

2001

Pincus-Witten, Robert. Naked Since 1950. New York: C & M Arts, 2001.

2000

Siedell, Dan. The Human Factor: Figuration in American Art. Lincoln, NE: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (now Sheldon Museum of Art), 2000.

1999

Fergusson, Russell. In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999.
Phillips, Lisa. The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999.

1998

Faces of Time: 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits. Washington DC: The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1998.

1997

Weinberg, Adam. Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3: American Realities. Catalogue by Adam Weinberg, Nicholas Serota, and Sandy Nairne, with essays by Andrew Brighton and Peter Wolle. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997.
Bond, Anthony. Body. Sydney: The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997.

1994

Feldman, Melissa E. Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art. Catalogue by Melissa E. Feldman, with an essay by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. Philadelphia, PA: Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1994.

1993

Gibson, Robin. The Portrait Now. London: National Portrait Gallery, 1993.

1989

Rosen, Randy and Catherine C. Brawer. Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream 1970-85. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1989.
Van Wagner, Judy Kay Collischan. Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women. Brookville, NY: Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, 1989.

1988

Just Like a Woman. Greenville, SC: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1988.
Wolfe, Townshend. The Face, in National Drawing Invitational. Little Rock, AR: The Arkansas Arts Center, 1988, pp.111-12.

1987

Appelhof, Ruth Stevens and Cumbee Wilson. The Expressionist Landscape: North American Modernist Painting, 1920-1947. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1987.

1986

Nude, Naked, Stripped. Catalogue by the MIT Committee on the Visual Arts. Cambridge, MA: Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, 1986.

1985

Lobowsky, Susan. The Surreal City: 1930s-1950s. Brochure essay by Susan Lobowsky. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, 1985.
Styron, Tommy. Innocence and Experience. Greenville, SC: Greenville County Art Museum, 1985.

1984

Nochlin, Linda. Woman. Evanston, IL: Terra Museum of American Art, 1984.

1983

Jacobs, Joseph. Faces Since the 50's: A Generation of American Portraiture. Lewisburg, PA: Center Gallery, Bucknell University, 1983.
Hills, Patricia. Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Paintings of the 1930s. Boston, MA: Boston University Art Gallery, 1983.
Kertess, Klaus. The Painterly Figure. Southampton, NY: The Parrish Art Museum, 1983.
Cathcart, Linda L. American Still Life: 1945-1983. Houston, TX: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1983.

1982

Berman, Greta, and Jeffrey Wechsler. Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1982.
Zilczer, Judith. Five Distinguished Alumni: The WPA Federal Art Project. Catalogue by Judith Zilczer, with an interview with Alice Neel. Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 1982.

1981

Boothe-Meredith, Sally. Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary American Realism. San Antonio, TX: San Antonio Museum of Art, 1981.
Gamwell, Lynn, and Victoria Kogan. Inside Out: Self Beyond Likeness. Newport Harbor, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1981.
Goodyear, Frank H., Jr. Contemporary American Realism Since 1960. Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society in association with Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1981.

1980

Perreault, John. Aspects of the 70's: Directions in Realism. Framingham, MA: Danforth Museum, 1980.

1978

Cathcart, Linda L. American Painting of the 1970s. Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1978.

1977

Park, Marlene, and Gerald E. Markowitz. New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s with Examples from New York City and State Oswego. Oswego, NY: Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY Oswego, 1977.
Blum, June, Audrey Flack, and Alice Neel. Three Contemporary American Women Realists. South Campus Art Gallery (now Kendall Campus Gallery), Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL, 1977.
Tenth Street Days: The Co-Ops of the 50's. Edited by Joellen Bard in cooperation with Pleiades Gallery and the Association of Artist-Run Galleries. New York: Education Art Service, 1977.

1976

Gerdts, William H., and Leslie Cohen. Three Centuries of the American Nude. New York: The New York Cultural Center, 1976.
Exhibition of Liturgical Arts. Catalogue by the 41st International Eucharistic Congress, with introduction by Victoria Donohue. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Civic Center, 1976.
Paintings by Three American Realists: Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, May Stevens. Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1976.
Dorothy Gillespie, Alice Neel, Charlotte Robinson, Sylvia Sleigh: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper. Washington, DC: Fendrick Gallery, 1976.
Harris, Ann Sutherland and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists, 1550-1950. Los Angeles: LACMA, 1976.

1975

Sons and Others: Women Artists See Men. New York: The Queens Museum, 1975.
Jacob, Eva. Candid Painting: American Genre 1950-1975. Lincoln, MA: De Cordova Museum, 1975.
Miller, Margaret A. Figure as Form: American Painting 1930-1975. Saint Petersburg, FL: Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.

1962

Kroll, Jack. Figures. New York: Kornblee Gallery, 1962.

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Magazines

2019

Devlin, Polly. My Favourite Painting. The De Vegh Twins by Alice Neel with comments by John McEwen, Country Life, 8 May 2019, p.56.

2018

Lewison, Jeremy. A sense of place: Jeremy Lewison on Alice Neel, Mousse Magazine, November 2018.

2017

Als, Hilton. Hilton Als on Alice Neel, The Brooklyn Rail, 1 February 2017.
Als, Hilton. The Inclusive Humanity of Alice Neel's Paintings, New Yorker, 4 February 2017.
Benaï, Yamina. Alice Neel Portrait Therapy, L'Officiel Art, March 2017.
Rio, Marie-Noël. L'art, l'amour, la politique: Les trois passions d'Alice Neel, Faites Entrer l'infini, no. 63, June 2017, pp. 24-43.
Nedo, Kito. Ich bin eine Seeler-sammlerin, Art - Das Kunstmagazin, November 2017, pp. 54-65.
Storfner, Laura. Vom Leben gezeichnet, Weltkunst, December 2017, pp.64-65.

2016

Čivle, Agnese. Straightforward, without any glorification. Q & A with Jeremy Lewison, Arterritory, 12 May 2016.
Als, Hilton. Alice Neel. East Harlem Portraits, curated by Hilton Als, The Paris Review, winter 2016, pp.60-85.

2011

Lewison, Jeremy. Beyond the pale: Alice Neel and her legacy. Art & Australia, vol. 48, no. 3, 2011, pp.502-13.
Walsh, Brienne. Michel Auder's Portraits of Alice Neel. Art in America, February 2011.

2010

Lewison, Jeremy. Alice Neel Now. The Art Section, vol. 4 no.3, March 2010.
Horodner, Stuart. Go Ask Alice, The Art Section, vol. 4 no. 3, March 2010.
Klein, Michael. That's Ms Neel, The Art Section, vol. 4 no. 3, March 2010.
May, Stephen. Alice Neel: Painted Truths at Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Antiques and the Arts Online, 30 March 2010.
Smith, Martha. Walker, Brian. Alice Neel: Painted Truths. Library Journal, 15 May 2010, p.73.
Neel, Andrew. A Life Well Lived. Vogue (UK), July 2010. pp.57-59.
Gardner, James. Alice Neel and Carlos Enriques: Starting Out in the Twenties. Antiques, Summer 2010, pp.134-141.
Voss, Julia. Die Kunstler-Malerin. Architectural Digest (German edition), September 2010, pp.102-06.
Wei, Lilly. The Great American (Male) Nude, Art In America, December 2010, pp 82-85.

2009

Schjeldhal, Peter. Wild Life. Alice Neel's People, New Yorker, 25 May 2009, pp.86-87.

2007

Jones, Amelia. History Makers, Frieze March 2007, pp. 132-39.
Princenthal, Nancy. Feminism Unbound, Art in America, June/July 2007, pp.142-153.

2006

Schor, Mira. Some Notes on Women and Abstraction and a Curious Case History: Alice Neel as a Great Abstract Painter, Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 17, no. 2 (2006), pp.132 - 60.

2004

Schuckburgh, Hanah. Portraits of no ladies, ArtReview (London), May 2004.
Smyth, Cherry. Alice Neel, Art Monthly, July 2004.
Alice Neel, London Magazine, August/September 2004, pp.56-63.
Falconer, Morgan. Burlington Magazine, August 2004, p.561.

2002

Bauer, Denise. Alice Neel's Feminist and Leftist Portraits of Women, Feminist Studies, vol. 28, no. 2 (summer 2002), pp.375 - 95.
Bauer, Denise. Alice Neel's Portraits of Mother Work, NWSA Journal, vol. 14, no. 2 (summer 2002), pp.102 - 20.

2001

Wylder, Viki D. Thompson. Alice Neel and Judy Chicago, Art Papers, vol. 25, no.1 (Jan-Feb 2001), pp. 17, 19.
Kunitz, David. Alice Neel at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Criterion, vol. 19, no. 1 (Sept 2000), pp. 46-47.
Givet, Camille. Neel ou la realite contemporaine, L'Oeil, no. 524 (March 2001), p.92.
Lawrence, M. Alice Neel Remembered, Art in America, vol. 89, no. 5 (May 2001), p.39.
Silberman, Robert. Alice Neel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Burlington Magazine, vol. 143, no. 1181 (Aug 2001), pp. 518-19.

2000

Neel, Alex. Bodies and Souls, Time Out New York, 20-27 July 2000, pp.71-72.
Temkin, Ann. Double Exposure, ArtNews, vol. 99, no. 5 (May 2000), pp. 138, 140.
Kernan, Nathan. Eyes Wide Open, Modern Painters, vol. 13, no. 3 (Autumn 2000), pp. 44-47.
Graur, Isabelle. Psychobilder? Uber die Portrats von Alice Neel, Texte zur Kunst, vol. 10, no. 40 (Dec 2000), pp. 64-71.
Newhall, Edith. Neel Life Stories, New York Magazine, 12 June 2000.
Weinstein, Jeff. Alice Neel, Artforum, September 2000.
McCord, A. Dealing in Neel. The Recent Alice Neel Retrospective, ArtNews, vol. 99, no. 10 (Nov 2000), p.116.
Rubinstein, Raphael. Eros in Spanish Harlem, Art in America, vol. 88, no. 12 (Dec 2000), pp. 102-09, 131.

1998

Bauer, Denise. Painful Honesty Review of Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery, by Pamela Allara. The Women's Review of Books, vol. 15, no. 9 (June 1998), pp. 25-26.

1997

Heartney, Eleanor. Portrait of a Decade, Art in America, vol. 85, no. 10 (October 1997), pp.102-5.

1996

Hirsch, Faye. Reviews: Alice Neel, Artforum, vol. 34, no. 8 (April 1996), p. 100.

1995

Bauer, Denise. Alice Neel's Female Nudes, Woman's Art Journal, vol. 15, no. 2 (Fall 1994-Winter 1995), pp. 21-30.

1994

Allara, Pamela. 'Mater' of Fact: Alice Neel's Pregnant Nudes, American Art, vol. 8, no. 2 (Spring 1994), pp. 6-31.
McEvilley, Thomas. Reviews: Alice Neel, Artforum, vol. 32, no. 9 (May 1994), pp. 97-98.
Diehl, Carol. Reviews: Alice Neel, ArtNews, vol. 93, no. 7 (September 1994), p. 166.

1992

Barrie, Lita. Real People: Alice Neel at Linda Cathcart Gallery, Artweek, 23 January 1992.
Duncan, Michael. Alice Neel, Art Issues (Los Angeles), no. 22 (March-April 1992), p. 32.
Alloway, Lawrence. Review of Alice Neel, by Patricia Hills. Art Journal, vol. 44, no. 2 (Summer 1984), pp. 191-92.
Allara, Pamela. The City as Domicile: The Urban Art of Alice Neel, Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, vol. 2, no.2 (Winter 1992), pp. 7-27.

1991

Saltz, Jerry. Notes on a painting: Alice Neel, painter laureate, Arts Magazine, vol. 66, no. 3 (October 1991), pp. 25-26.
Hills, Patricia. Alice Neel, Art New England, vol. 12, no. 7 (October-November 1991), pp.22-23.

1988

Princenthal, Nancy. About Faces: Alice Neel's Portraits, Parkett (Zurich), no. 16 (1988), pp. 6-17.
Lerman, Ora. Contemporary Vanitas, Arts Magazine, vol. 62, no. 7 (March 1988), pp. 60-63.
Abell, Jeff. Alice Neel, New Art Examiner, vol. 15, no. 10 (June 1988), p. 44.

1987

Brown, Betty Ann. Seeing Beneath the Surface, Artweek, vol. 18, no. 33 (October 10, 1987), pp. 5-6.

1986

Obituary of Alice Neel. Art in America, Annual 1985-86, vol. 13. no. 8 (August 1986), p. 47.
Luvaas, William. Making It: An Interview with Alice Neel, Art Times (December 1986), pp.10-11.

1985

Geldzahler, Henry. Alice Neel, Interview, vol. 15, no. 1 (January 1985), pp. 86-87. Reprinted in Henry Geldzahler, Making It New: Essays, Interviews, and Talks, pp. 232-41. New York: Turtle Point Press, 1994.
French, Christopher. An Observer Revealing Herself, Artweek, vol. 16, no. 15 (13 April, 1985). p. 1.

1984

Henry, Gerrit. New York Reviews: Elaine de Kooning and Alice Neel, ArtNews, vol. 83, no. 3 (March 1984), p. 210.
Gallati, Barbara. Arts Reviews: Alice Neel, Arts Magazine, vol. 58, no. 9 (May 1984), p. 54.
Alloway, Lawrence. Review of Patricia Hills, Alice Neel, published by Abrams, New York, 1994. Art Journal, summer 1984, pp. 191-92.
Higgins, Judith. Alice Neel and the Human Comedy, ArtNews, vol. 83, no. 8 (October 1984), pp. 70-79.
Anon. Milestones: Alice Neel, Time, 19 October, 1984, p.76.
Higgins, Judith. Alice Neel, 1900-1984, ArtNews, vol. 83, no. 10 (December 1984), p. 14.
Anonymous. Obituary of Alice Neel. Art in America, vol. 72, no. 11 (December 1984), p. 198.

1983

Weisberg, Ruth. Alice Neel: Powerful Truths, Artweek, vol. 14, no. 16 (23 April, 1983), pp. 1, 24.
Nelson, Sandy. Looking at Alice Looking at Us: Alice Neel in Los Angeles, Images and Issues, vol. 4, no. 1 (July-August 1983), pp. 16-19.
Castle, Ted. Alice Neel, Artforum, vol. 22, no. 2 (October 1983), pp.36-41.
Glueck, Grace. Revival of the Portrait, New York Times Magazine, 6 November, 1983, pp. 52-60.
Berman, Avis. When Artists Grow Old, Art News, vol. 82, no. 10 (December 1983), pp. 76-83.

1982

Price, Aimee Brown. Artists Dialogue: A Conversation with Alice Neel, Architectural Digest, vol. 39, no. 8 (August 1982), pp. 136, 140, 142.
Friedman, Jon R. Alice Neel, Arts Magazine, vol. 57, no. 1 (September 1982), p. 23.
Gallati, Barbara. Arts Reviews: Alice Neel, Non-Figurative Works, Arts Magazine, vol. 57. no. 2 (October 1982), pp. 23-24.
Phillips, Deborah C. New York Reviews: Alice Neel, ArtNews, vol. 81, no. 8 (October 1982), p. 153.
Storr, Robert. Review of Exhibitions: Alice Neel at Robert Miller, Art in America, vol. 70, no. 9 (October 1982), p.130.

1981

Mercedes, Rita. Alice Neel Talks to Rita Mercedes, Connoisseur, vol. 208, no. 835 (September 1981), pp. 2-3.

1980

Harris, Ann Sutherland. The Human Creature: The Portraits of Alice Neel, Portfolio (New York), vol. 1, no. 6 1980, pp. 70-75.

1979

Galassi, Susan Grace. Arts Reviews: Alice Neel, Arts Magazine, vol. 53, no. 6 (February 1979), pp. 20-21.
Gaugh, Harry F. Alice Neel, Arts Magazine, vol. 53, no. 7 (March 1979), p. 9.
Hope, Henry R. Alice Neel: Portraits of an Era, Art Journal, vol. 38, no. 4 (Summer 1979), pp.273-81.
Goldstein, Patti. Soul on Canvas, New York Magazine, 9-16 July, 1979, pp. 76-80.
Glowen, Ron. Alice Neel's Portraits-Skin Surface and Soul Deep, Artweek, vol. 10, no. 37 (10 November,1979), p.16.

1978

Stevens, May. The Non-Portrait Work of Alice Neel, Women's Studies (New York), vol. 6 (1978), pp. 61-73.
Schmitt, Marilyn. Alice Neel, Arts Magazine, vol. 52, no. 9 (May 1978), p. 9.

1977

Johnson, Ellen H. Alice Neel's Fifty Year's of Portrait Painting, Studio International, vol. 193, no. 987 (March 1977), pp. 174-79.
Cochrane, Diane. Alice Neel: Collector of Souls, American Artist, vol. 37, no. 4 (September 1973), pp. 32-37,62-64.
Glueck, Grace. The 20th-Century Artists Most Admired by Other Artists: Alice Neel, ArtNews, vol. 76, no. 9 (November 1977), p. 94.
Harris, Ann Sutherland. A Note on Alice's Greatness, ArtNews, vol. 75, no. 11 (November 1977), p. 113.
Turner, Norman. Alice Neel, Arts Magazine, vol. 52, no. 4 (December 1977), p. 14.
French-Frazier, Nina. New York Reviews: Alice Neel, ArtNews, vol. 76, no. 10 (December 1977), pp. 141-42.

1976

Hess, Thomas B. Art: Sitting Prettier, New York Magazine, 23 February, 1976, pp. 62-63.
Dickson, Harold E. Portraits U.S.A. 1776-1976, American Art Review, vol. 3, no. 3 (May-June 1976), pp. 32-48.
Neel, Alice in Gerrit Henry, Is New York Still the Artistic Place to Be?, ArtNews, vol. 75, no. 9 (November 1976), pp. 44-45.

1975

Kimbrell, Leonard. Alice Neel's Portraits, Artweek, vol. 6, no. 5 (1 February,1975), p. 2.
Neel, Alice in Gerrit Henry, The Artist and the Face: A Modern American Sampling, Art in America, vol. 63, no. 1 (January- February 1975), pp. 34-41.
Blum, June. Women and Success at The Brooklyn Museum, Feminist Art Journal, vol. 4, no. 3 (Fall 1975), pp. 14-15.

1974

Halasz, Piri. Alice Neel: 'I Have This Obsession with Life', Art News, vol. 73, no. 1 (January 1974), pp. 47-49.
Hess, Thomas B. Art: Behind the Taboo Curtain, New York Magazine, 4 March,1974, p. 68.
Alloway, Lawrence. Art, Nation (New York), 9 March, 1974, p. 318.
Anonymous. Country Art and City Art, Newsweek, 11 March, 1974, p.90.
Heinemann, Susan. Alice Neel, The Whitney Museum, Artforum, vol. 12, no. 9 (May 1974), pp. 74-75.
Nochlin, Linda. Some Women Realists: Painters of the Figure, Arts Magazine, vol. 48, no.8 (May 1974), pp. 29-33. Reprinted in Linda Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays, New York: Harper and Row, 1988, pp. 86-108.
Evett, Kenneth. From Top to Bottom at the Whitney, New Republic, (Washington D.C.) 4 May 1974, pp. 27-28.
Mainardi, Pat. Alice Neel at the Whitney Museum, Art in America, vol. 62, no. 3 (May-June 1974), pp. 107-8.
Vivell, Judith. Talking About Portraits, Feminist Art Journal, vol. 3, no. 2 (Summer 1974), pp. 13-16, 19.
Hall, Lee. The Sullen Art and Craft of Portraiture, Craft Horizons, vol. 34, no. 6 (December 1974), pp. 40-43, 81-82.

1973

Nemser, Cindy. Alice Neel: Portraits of Four Decades, Ms., vol. 2, no. 4 (October 1973), pp. 48-53.

1972

Nemser, Cindy. Representational Painting in 1971: A New Synthesis, Arts Magazine, vol. 46, no. 3 (December 1971-January 1972), pp. 41-46.

1970

Campbell, Lawrence. Reviews and Previews: Alice Neel, ArtNews, vol. 69, no. 7 (November 1970), p. 24.

1968

Perreault, John. Reviews and Previews: Alice Neel, ArtNews, vol. 66, no. 9 (January 1968), p.16.
Nemser, Cindy. In the Galleries: Alice Neel, Arts Magazine, vol. 42, no. 4 (February 1968), p.60.
Anonymous. Artists on their Art: Alice Neel, Art International, vol. 12, no. 5 (15 May,1968), p. 48.

1966

Berrigan, Ted. The Portrait and Its Double, ArtNews, vol. 64, no. 9 (January 1966), pp. 30-33, 63-64.
Kroll, Jack. Curator of Souls, Newsweek, 31 January, 1966, p. 82.
Bochner, Mel. In the Galleries: Alice Neel, Arts Magazine, vol. 40, no. 5 (March 1966), p. 55.

1965

Berrigan, Ted. Alice Neel's Portraits of Joe Gould, Mother (New York), no. 6 (Thanksgiving 1965), pp. 31-33.

1963

Raynor, Vivien. In the Galleries: Alice Neel, Arts Magazine, vol. 38, no. 1 (October 1963), pp. 58-59.
Levin, Kim. Reviews and Previews: Alice Neel, ArtNews, vol. 62, no. 6 (October 1963), p.11.

1962

Petersen, Valerie. U.S. Figure Painting: Continuity and Cliche, ArtNews, vol. 61, no. 4 (Summer 1962), pp. 36-38, 51-52.
Crehan, Hubert. Introducing the Portraits of Alice Neel, ArtNews, vol. 61, no. 6 (October 1962), pp. 44-47,68.

1960

Semsel, George. Three Neglected Painters: Alice Neel, Clifford Gress-Wright, and Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, Wagner Literary Magazine (Wagner College, New York), 1960, pp. 42-46.
Campbell, Lawrence. Reviews and Previews: Alice Neel, Jonah Kinigstein, Anthony Toney, Giacomo Porzano, ArtNews, vol. 59, no. 8 (December 1960), pp.13-14.

1954

Davidson, Bernice. Fortnight in Review: Mulzac and Neel, Arts Digest, vol. 28, no. 20 (September 15, 1954), p. 26.
Munson, Gretchen T. Capt. Hugh Mulzac and Alice Neel, ArtNews, vol. 53, no. 6 (October 1954), pp. 58-59.

1951

N. L. Fifty-seventh Street in Review: Alice Neel, Art Digest, vol. 25, no. 7 (1 January, 1951), p.17.
Catlin, Stanton L. Reviews and Previews: Alice Neel's, ArtNews, vol. 49, no. 9 (January 1951), p. 49.

1944

The Passing Shows, ArtNews, vol. 43, no. 3 (March 15-31, 1944), p. 20.
End of WPA Art, Life, vol. 16, no. 16 (17 April, 1944), pp. 85-86.

1938

Anonymous. New Exhibitions of the Week, ArtNews, vol. 36, no. 33 (14 May,1938), pp. 20-21.

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Online

2009

Schjeldahl, Peter. Characters. New Yorker online audio slide show. 25 May 2009. Click here to view online

2008

Marcus, J. S. Alice Neel's Penetrating Eye. Wall Street Journal, 7 November 2008. Click here to read online

2007

Bell, Kirsty. Alice Neel. Frieze (online review), September 2007. Click here to read online

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Archives

1983

Alice Neel Papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

1981

Reminiscences of Alice Hartley Neel, April 8, April 29, June 5, 1981. Interviewer Richard M. Polsky. Oral History Collection of Columbia University, New York.

1971

Neel, Alice. Doctoral Address, Moore College of Art, May 1971. Reprinted in Alice Neel: The Woman and Her Work, pp. 81-84. Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, 1975.

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