id: 167667
accession number: 2009.345
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.345
updated: 2023-02-03 16:45:30.534000
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: 229A 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, 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.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Sotheby's, New York, 2009, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 2009
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2009–
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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.”
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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.
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.
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"Alice Neel: people come first." American Art Review 34, no.1 (Spring 2022): 138-141, 144.
page number: reproduction p.140
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