id: 167667 accession number: 2009.345 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.345 updated: 2022-06-17 09:01:01.867000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1970 creation date earliest: 1970 creation date latest: 1970 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: © The Estate of Alice Neel --- culture: America, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Alice Neel (American, 1900-1984) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Alice Neel: Painted Truths opening date: 2010-03-21T00:00:00 Alice Neel: Painted Truths. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (March 21-June 13, 2010); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (July 9-September 19, 2010); Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (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, 13200 Arles, France (March 4-September 17, 2017); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (October 13, 2017-January 14, 2018). title: Alice Neel: People Come First opening date: 2021-03-15T04:00:00 Alice Neel: People Come First. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 15-August 1, 2021); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (March 12-July 10, 2022) https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/alice-neel. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * --- PROVENANCE (Sotheby's, New York, 2009, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2009 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2009– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Jackie Curtis, seen at right, was credited with pioneering the glam rock style of the 1970s. digital description: Jackie Curtis (on the right), was a performer, writer, and singer, active in New York City’s downtown counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, and part of Andy Warhol’s creative orbit. In this double portrait Alice Neel depicts Curtis, who was gender nonconforming, together with Ritta Redd, a friend with whom he sometimes collaborated. Typical for Neel, the personalities of her sitters are evident in this painting. Notably, Curtis takes center stage in the image, positioning his body to cast Redd in its shadow. Neel once commented that when “portraits are good art they reflect the culture, the time and many other things.” wall description: Jackie Curtis (on the right), was a performer, writer, and singer, active in NewYork City’s downtown counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, and part of Andy Warhol’screative orbit. In this double portrait Alice Neel depicts Curtis, who was gendernonconforming, together with Ritta Redd, a friend with whom he sometimes collaborated.Typical for Neel, the personalities of her sitters are evident in this painting. Notably, Curtistakes center stage in the image, positioning his body to cast Redd in its shadow. Neel once commented that when “portraits are good art they reflect the culture, the time and many other things.” --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Neel, Alice, and Jeremy Lewison. Alice Neel: Painted Truths. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2010. page number: pp. 154-155, cat. 24 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/421948429 Neel, Alice, and Jeremy Lewison. Alice Neel: Painted Truths. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2010. page number: pp. 154-155, cat. 24 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/421948429 Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 117 url: 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. url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/951710657 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 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/954037776 Neel, Alice, and Angela Lampe. Alice Neel: un regard engagé. 2020, 87, 107. page number: Mentioned: p. 87; reproduced: p. 87, ill. 3 and p. 107. url: "Alice Neel: people come first." American Art Review 34, no.1 (Spring 2022): 138-141, 144. page number: reproduction p.140 url: --- IMAGES