Alice neel self portrait

Celebrating painter Alice Neel, who was born on this day in 1900. This 1968 portrait of Richard Gibbs is a favorite of ours, so much so it graced the cover of the booklet we produced for her 2010 solo...

Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Time: 3:30 PM Location: Rare Book Room Contact Information: Kelly Wooten, 919-660-5967 or kelly.wooten(at)duke.edu The summer research project season is in full swing! Next Tuesday, Katie Anania, graduate student in Art History at the University of Texas-Austin and recipient of a Mary Lily Research Grant, will discuss her research on … Continue reading Drawing Feminism →

Alice Neel

Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont // October 26–December 8, 2018

The subject of the hugely popular show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art immortalized alumni, faculty and neighbors in her groundbreaking work.

Dubbed by an art critic a "collector of souls," Alice Neel portrayed an extraordinary variety of sitters, from the anonymous to the highly recognizable, as in this portrait of the renowned Pop artist Andy Warhol. Here, Neel captures the vulnerability of an artist whose work and public persona were famous for their cool detachment. When in public, Warhol typically cloaked himself in a variety of guises—wigs, makeup, sunglasses, and a practiced air of disinterestedness. He once remarked…

Alice Neel's "Priscilla Johnson." Longtime favorite.

The twentieth-century figurative painter Alice Neel reflected that, “My psychiatrist once told me that I got interested in painting portraits because...

The first retrospective of painter Alice Neel in two decades is scheduled to come to San Francisco in 2022.

Founded in 1968, Locks Gallery represents an international group of critically respected modern and contemporary artists working in a variety of disciplines.