id: 167667
accession number: 2009.345
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.345
updated: 2019-08-14 08:00:30.061000
Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd, 1970. Alice Neel (American, 1900-1984). Oil on canvas; framed: 154.3 x 108.9 cm (60 3/4 x 42 7/8 in.); unframed: 152.4 x 106.4 cm (60 x 41 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2009.345 © The Estate of Alice Neel
title: Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd
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creation date: 1970
creation date earliest: 1970
creation date latest: 1970
current location: 229B Contemporary
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright: © The Estate of Alice Neel
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: Contemporary Art
collection: CONTEMP - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Alice Neel (American, 1900-1984) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 154.3 x 108.9 cm (60 3/4 x 42 7/8 in.); Unframed: 152.4 x 106.4 cm (60 x 41 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Alice Neel: Painted Truths
opening date: 2010-03-21T00:00:00
Alice Neel: Painted Truths. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (organizer) (March 21-June 13, 2010); Whitechapel Art Gallery (July 9-September 19, 2010); Moderna Museet (October 10, 2010-January 2, 2011).
title: Alice Neel - Painter of Modern Life
opening date: 2016-06-10T04:00:00
Alice Neel - Painter of Modern Life. Ateneum Art Museum/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (June 10-October 2, 2016); Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands (November 5, 2016-February 12, 2017); Fondation Vincent van Gogh-Arles (March 4-September 17, 2017); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (October 13, 2017-January 14, 2018).
title: Alice Neel: Painter as Radical Humanist
opening date: 2021-03-15T04:00:00
Alice Neel: Painter as Radical Humanist. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 15-July 11, 2021).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (3/21/2010 - 6/13/2010), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (7/9/2010 - 9/19/2010), and Moderna Museet, Malmö (10/10/2010 - 1/2/2011): "Alice Neel: Painted Truths", ex. cat. no. 24, p. 154-155.
Ateneum Art Museum/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (6/10/2016 – 10/2/2016), Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands (11/5/2016 – 2/12/2017), Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France (3/4/2017 – 9/17/2017), and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (10/13/2017 – 1/14/2018): "Alice Neel – Painter of Modern Life"
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PROVENANCE
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fun fact:
Jackie Curtis, seen at right, was credited with pioneering the glam rock style of the 1970s.
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Though Alice Neel’s work consisted mostly of portraiture, there is a distinctly abstract quality in her paintings due to her use of simplified forms and perspective distortion. An early example of her portraits of gay couples, Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd portrays two regulars from Andy Warhol’s Factory. Jackie Curtis was an actor, playwright, and poet who appeared in Warhol’s films Flesh and Women in Revolt. Neel plays with expectations of gender through the figures’ postures and dress, which work against typical ideas of masculinity and femininity. The figure on the left is Ritta, not Jackie, as would be expected from the title. Neel appropriately remarked that when "portraits are good art they reflect the culture, the time and many other things."
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
The Department of Art History and Archaeology of Columbia University. Modern Portraits: the Self & Others: An Exhibition. New York: Columbia University, 1976. p. 117.
page number: Reproduced: p. 117, fig. 86.
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Quinn, Bridget, and Lisa Congdon. Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order). San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2017.
page number: Reproduced p. 110; mentioned pp. 111-112.
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Lewison, Jeremy, Bice Curiger, and Alice Neel. Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life. Brussels : Mercatorfonds ; Helsinki : Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery, 2016.
page number: Mentioned: p. 178, cat. 52; reproduced: p. 179
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