The Met’s exhibition Alice Neel: People Come First, (on view 22 March–1 August 2021) is the first museum retrospective in New York of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) in twenty years.
This ambitious survey positions Neel as one of the century’s most radical painters, a champion of social justice whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life as well as her art, as demonstrated in the approximately one hundred paintings, drawings, and watercolors that appear in The Met’s survey.
Image:
Alice Neel
Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian, 1978
© Estate of Alice Neel
Collection SFMOMA
Purchase, by exchange, through an anonymous gift
March 22 2021
