Flight of the Mother Artist: Alice Neel (American, 1900–1984)

1964–73

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Mixed media on canvas (telephone, light switch, pole, oil over gesso)

Dimensions

83 3/4 × 60 in. (212.7 × 152.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard Neel

Accession Number

1978.133

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Bibliography
  • Pamela Allara, Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1998), 253–54, 261–63, fig. 171
Object copyright
Copyright Estate of Alice Neel / David Zwirner Gallery
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

Subject

Women artists

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