Alice Neel: Portraits, Politics, and Power (Part 1)

This lecture is being given in two parts. July 6 is part one and July 8 is part two. Registering for this event signs you up for both parts. 

Although mostly unheralded, Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the Twentieth Century, and a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people, landscape, and still life, Neel was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements. When abstract expressionism and pop art were all the rage, she painted in a style and with an approach distinctively her own. Come and hear about her unconventional life and her remarkable career and see many examples of her unique and sometimes shocking paintings. This talk will prepare you well to enjoy the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Alice Neel, People Come First, on view till August 1.