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.

Audio

Alice Neel speaks about her life and work.

Bibliography

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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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