Alice Neel

The Best Mothers In Art

Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Mother's Day, Mothers in Art, Cindy Sherman, Michelangelo, Motherhood in Art, Louise Bourgeois, Mothers Day, Van Gogh, Slideexpand, Paintings of Motherhood, Alice Neel, Moms in Art, Art's Best Moms, Happy Mothers Day, Female Artists, Lucian Freud, Arts News

HuffPost Arts would like to officially thank moms everywhere for their countless gifts of strength and inspiration. What better way is there to expres...

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A Motley Crew

Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Frank O'Hara, New York Art Exhibitions, Marlene Dumas, Alex Katz, Still Life, Alice Neel, David Zwirner, Figurative Painting, Slideexpand, Female Artists, Portraits, Video, Arts News

With an art career spanning from 1920 to the 1980s, Alice Neel painted family, poets, singers, bohemians, strangers and celebrities. She famously stuc...

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Painters' Table: 21 Great Painting Posts from 2011

Brett Baker | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Pat Passlof, Cy Twombly, Willem De Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Milton-Resnick, George Tooker, Lucian Freud, John Hoyland, Josephine Halvorson, Giovanni Bellini, Lois Dodd, Tantric, Philip Guston, John Twachtman, Vincent Desiderio, Martin Bromirski, Alice Neel, Hamlett Dobbins, George Nick, George Hofmann, Louis Finkelstein, Arts News
Brett Baker

From the nearly 700 postsfeatured on Painters' Table in 2011, the following twenty represent a unique take on the state of painting in 2011.

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Alice Neel's Dysfunctional Thanksgiving

Julia Friedman | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Julia Friedman, Norman Rockwell, Turkey, Alice Neel, America, Thanksgiving, Rockwell, Alice Neel Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Painting, Arts News
Julia Friedman

On a free afternoon during a recent lecture trip to Eugene, Oregon, I stopped by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art to see the traveling exhibition of...

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From The Painter's Table: January's Ten Most Popular Posts

Brett Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Art Lies, Philip Guston, Nancy Natale, The Painting Center, John Seed, Catherine Maize, Altoon Sultan, Art World, Painters' Table, Richard Timperio, Hrag Vartanian, Drawing, Jake Berthot, Rachael Wren, Beard and Brush, Matthew Farina, Patricia Treib, Velazquez, Julie Shapiro, Painting, Alex Glauber, James Kalm, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, Art, Alice Neel, Studio and Garden, Sideshow Gallery, James Wagner, Hyperallergic, Arts News
Brett Baker

Snowbound January days, it seems, were good for painting, reading, and blogging, at least if the painting blogosphere is an indicator.

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The Best and Worst of 2010

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Fowler Museum, Auguste Renoir, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Lacma, Jancar Gallery, Alberto Burri, Npr, Uta Barth, Eva Hesse, Dennis Hopper, The Hammer Museum, The Getty, Kcrw, Los Angeles, LA Louver Gallery, 1301 PE, Arshile Gorky, Fashioning Fashion, Alice Neel, Rembrandt, Edward Goldman, Artists, Art, Nick Cave, Museums, Joan Mitchell, Moca, Gagosian Gallery, Pierre Picot, Art Talk, Arts News
Edward Goldman

On a personal level, I want to say "thank God" that the year 2010 is coming to an end, but artistically speaking it was definitely a year to remember.

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PHOTOS: EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: Humans On Canvas, Figuration Exhibit at L.A. Louver

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Louver, Richard Diebenkorn, LA Culture, Figuration, Slidefullscreen, Tony Bevan, William Brice, Alice Neel, r.b. Kitaj, Charles Garabedian, David Hockney, Venice, Rebecca Campbell, Figurative Art, Leon Kossoff, Arts News

WHO: Tony Bevan, William Brice, Rebecca Campbell, Richard Diebenkorn, Charles Garabedian, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff and Alice Neel WH...

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GREAT EXHIBITIONS: Delicious Art Exhibitions Around the World This Month by Edward Goldman

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kees Van Dongen, Nam June Paik, Moderna Museet, October Exhibitions, Art, Alice Neel, Arts News
Edward Goldman

When I think about artists who excel at portraiture, I am thinking about those whom courageously and in the most uncompromising way swore to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth.

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: 'In The Company Of Alice Neel' At Victoria Miro Gallery

Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chantal Joffe, Marlene Dumas, Alice Neel, Hernan Bas, Boscoe Holder, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jacco Olivier, Elizabeth Peyton, Karen Kilimnik, Victoria Miro Gallery, Ns Harsha, Whitechapel Gallery, Idris Khan, John Currin, Slideshow, Arts News
Marina Cashdan

"In the Company of Alice" review from ARTINFO Victoria Miro, London http://www.victoria-miro.com/ Through July 30, 2010 "In the Company of Alice Nee...

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Blague d'Art: Everything Old

Peter Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Seery, Mid Century Modern, Robert Zakanitch, Alice Neel, Arts News
Peter Frank

I marvel continually at the rediscovery of painters who made a splash three to four decades ago and then eased their way to the margins to allow younger folk the limelight.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Alice Neel Inspires At LA Louver

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alice Neel, LA Louver Gallery, Paintings, Slidepollajax, Arts News

WHO: Alice Neel WHAT: 'Paintings' WHEN: May 20 - June 26, 2010 WHERE: L.A. Louver 45 N Venice Blvd Venice, CA 90291 WHY: The exhibition includes...

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Plan ForYourArt May 20-22

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blum and Poe, Tim Hawkinson, Foryourart, The Red Book, Gilda Frantz, Hammer Museum, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Ed Moses, Pacific Standard Time, Mark Bradford, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Jim Shaw, Moca, Ferus Gallery, John Baldessari, LA Louver Gallery, Alice Neel, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

There has never been more worldwide attention on the creative culture of Los Angeles. People from all over the world came to LA for the opening of the...

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Latin American Artists in New York -- El Museo del Barrio

Monroe Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diego Rivera, El Museo Del Barrio, Alice Neel, Latin American Art, New York News
Monroe Price

There's only until the end of February to see one of the most dynamic and original exhibitions in Manhattan: Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis.

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Artist Angela Dufresne On Recreating History

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Angela Dufresne, The Inner Life, George Bush, Fine Art, David Park, Skull and Bones, Veronika Voss, Painting, Gus Van Sant, Cinema, Du Champ, Aristotle, Elizabeth Taylor, John Steinbeck, Werner Herzog, Grey Gardens, Kimberly Brooks, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Losey, Alice Neel, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Flag Pins, Of Mice and Men, Vuillard, Fassbinder, Giotto, Bacon, Ozu, Cassavetes, Haneke, Louvre, Antonioni, Female Artist, Arts News
Kimberly Brooks

Angela Dufresne, The Bruno S Island Acting School and the S House, Paris, France, 2006, oil on canvas, 66 by 108 inches. Courtesy of the artist and M...

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