Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban
Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban is a 500-page hardcover published in 2010 by St. Martin's Press. Despite it being an ex-library book, the book is in pristine condition, as though never read. Little pen mark to the fore edges. Book Summary Alice Neel like to say that she was the century in the many way she was. She was born into a proper Victorian family, came of age during suffrage. The quintessential Bohemian, she spent more than half a century, from her early days as a WPA artist, through her Whitney retrospective in 1974, until her death 10 years later, painting, often in near-obscurity, an extraordinarily diverse population from young black sisters in Harlem to the elderly Jewish twin artists, Raphael and Moses Soyer, to Linus Pauling, creating an indelible portrait of 20th century America. Neel's hundreds of portraits portray a universe of powerful personalities and document age. Neel painted through the depression, McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Move