The great US artist Alice Neel lived and painted in uptown New York when it was almost exclusively black and Hispanic. Hilton Als, curator of a show of her portraits from this period, discusses some of his favourite images.
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Image: Alice Neel, Harold Cruse, c.1950
Oil on canvas
94 x 55.9 cm
37 x 22 in
37 x 22 in
© The Estate of Alice Neel, Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London
April 29 2017
