Alice Neel’s Paintings Meet The Moment At The Met

Alice Neel, Self‑Portrait, 1980

Painter Alice Neel’s first retrospective in 20 years is both timely and ambitious. And people are flocking to see her portraits, a chronicle of the 20th century through expressive faces and figures.

(Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C/The Estate of Alice Neel)

Painter Alice Neel’s first retrospective in 20 years is both timely and ambitious. And people are flocking to see her portraits, a chronicle of the 20th century through expressive faces and figures.