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PICNIC IN THE SCULPTURE GARDEN
Pick up breakfast, lunch, coffee, or snacks at Cafe Express in the Beck Building, and dine alfresco in this outdoor art gallery where admission is always FREE. Open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily at the corner of Montrose Boulevard and Bissonnet Street.
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Alice Neel, Hartley, 1966
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
© Estate of Alice Neel
One of the great American painters of the 20th century, Alice Neel (1900-1984) is best known for her psychologically acute portraits. Intimate, casual, direct and personal, satirical at times, they chronicle the social and economic diversity of mid-20th-century American life.
Having consciously set out to chronicle the zeitgeist of her time, Neel painted friends and family, as well as the celebrated artists and writers of her day, such as Andy Warhol, Frank O´Hara, and Meyer Shapiro.
Alice Neel: Painted Truths both traces the evolution of Neel´s style and examines themes that she revisited throughout her career, including her social and political commitment, her stylistic evolution, and her reversal of the typical artist/model gender roles, maternity, and old age.
The accompanying catalogue, fully illustrated and featuring insightful commentary from four leading art historians, is published by the MFAH and distributed by Yale University Press.
Alice Neel: Painted Truths is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
This exhibition receives funding from:
The National Endowment for the Arts
Cherie and Jim Flores
Franci and Jim Crane
Jeff Fort and Marion Barthelme
The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Barbara and Michael Gamson
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis
Victoria Miro Gallery
Additional generous support is provided by the MFAH Benefactors of American Art:
Cornelia and Meredith Long
Bobbie and John Nau
Fayez Sarofim
Ann Gordon Trammell
Related Events:
Fine Arts Fridays Pre-Event Lecture: Alice Neel and the Photographic Image
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, March 19, 2010 6:00 PM
Gallery Conversations: Alice Neel
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Saturday, June 12, 2010 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Gallery Talk: Alice Neel (45 min.)
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Sunday, April 11, 2010 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, April 25, 2010 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Gallery Talk: Alice Neel: Painted Truths
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 12:00 PM
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:00 PM
Gallery Talk: Alice Neel: Painted Truths
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:00 PM
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:00 PM
Gallery Talk: Alice Neel (45 min.)
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Thursday, April 8, 2010 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Thursday, April 22, 2010 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Thursday, April 29, 2010 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Gallery Talk: Modern Portraits
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Thursday, May 6, 2010 12:00 PM
Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:00 PM
Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:00 PM
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:00 PM
Teacher Workshop "Portraiture"
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Saturday, March 27, 2010 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
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