Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

by Phoebe Hoban and Alice Neel

Book Overview

Alice Neel liked to say that she was the century and in many ways she was. She was born into a proper Victorian family, and came of age during suffrage. The quintessential Bohemian, she spent more than half a century, from her early days as a WPA artist living in the heart of the Village, through her Whitney retrospective in 1974, until her death ten years later, painting, often in near-obscurity, an extraordinarily diverse population--from young...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312607482
• ISBN13: 9780312607487
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"