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The painter who never stopped seeing her subjects as individuals described her works as ‘pictures of people’ rather ‘portraits’, writes Matthew Sperling

Virtually ignored for much of her early career, politically controversial, and at odds with conventional mores and art trends, Alice Neel’s life and work (1900-84) are beacons for socially conscious artists, particularly women.

This great artist is commonly mixed in with the second-wave feminism of the 1970s. But a new exhibition reveals the primordial truth of her politics

In 1925, a German immigrant named Winold Reiss was invited to design and illustrate an issue of the journal Survey Graphic devoted to Harlem, the new

a href= http://www.famsf.org target= _blank The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco /a are presenting the first comprehensive museum survey of work

Virtually ignored for much of her early career, politically controversial, and at odds with conventional mores and art trends, Alice Neel’s life and work (1900-84) are beacons for socially conscious artists, particularly women.

The late artist was a true radical—for the way she lived her life and for what and how she painted.

In the 1980s, a man walked into an art gallery with two Alice Neel paintings wrapped in brown paper bags. He found them on a sidewalk.