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A Portrait Painter Receives Her Due
by Jennifer Dalton


*Maternal Contentment* by Carole Orr

For much of the 20th century, painter Alice Neel struggled in relative obscurity. Neel followed her heart and concentrated on painting the human figure during a time when abstraction reigned, in the middle part of this century. As a result, her work was not widely appreciated.


*I'm Waiting* by Maida Rosenheck

Though she died in 1984, Neel is belatedly receiving her due. Her work is now the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.


*New York, New York* by Lucille Stillman

The exhibition will include her incisive and unflinching portraits of many important figures in 20th century arts and letters, particularly poets and artists she knew like Frank O'Hara, Faith Ringgold, Meyer Shapiro and Andy Warhol.


*Helga* by Roxa Smith

Featuring works by PaintingsDirect.com photographers.

For more information, check out the Alice Neel site or the Whitney.

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