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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.