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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.
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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.