National Gallery of Art

Inscription

upper left reverse: Neel / '66

Provenance

The artist [1900-1984]; purchased c. 1975 by Arthur M. Bullowa, New York; gift 1991 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1966

Alice Neel: Recent Paintings & Paintings from the Thirties, Graham Gallery, New York, 1966.

1974

Alice Neel, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1974, no. 31, as Hartley Neel.

1975

Alice Neel: Collector of Souls, Fair Lawn New Jersey Public Library, 1975-1976, repro. (no list in brochure).

1975

Alice Neel: The Woman and Her Work, George Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, September-October 1975, no. 39, repro.

1975

Sons & Others: Women Artists See Men, The Queens Museum, Flushing, March-April 1975, no. 37, repro.

1976

Paintings by three American Realists: Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, May Stevens, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1976, no. 2.

1979

Alice Neel, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, 1979, no. 21.

1981

Alice Neel Paintings, Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1981 (no list in brochure, not one of repros.).

1982

Five Artists and the Figure, Whitney Museum of American Art Fairfield County, Stamford, Connecticut, 1982, unnumbered brochure.

2000

Alice Neel, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Denver Art Museum, 2000-2001, pl. 49.

2010

Alice Neel: Painted Truths, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden, 2010-2011, no. 17, repro.

2016

Alice Neel - A Retrospective, Ateneum Art Museum Finnish National Gallery, Helsinke; Gemeentemuseum Den Hag; Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2016-2017.

Bibliography

1998

Allara, Pamela. Pictures of People, Alice Neel's, American Portrait Gallery. 1998: no. 158, repro.

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