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"tombstone": "Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd, 1970. Alice Neel (American, 1900\u20131984). 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. \u00a9 The Estate of Alice Neel",
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"title": "Alice Neel: Painted Truths",
"description": "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, Malm\u00f6, Sweden (October 10, 2010-January 2, 2011).",
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"title": "Alice Neel - Painter of Modern Life",
"description": "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).",
"opening_date": "2016-06-10T04:00:00"
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"title": "Alice Neel: People Come First",
"description": "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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"did_you_know": "Jackie Curtis, seen at right, was credited with pioneering the glam rock style of the 1970s.",
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"description": "Jackie Curtis (on the right), was a performer, writer, and singer, active in New York City\u2019s downtown counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, and part of Andy Warhol\u2019s creative orbit. In this double portrait Alice Neel depicts Curtis, who was gender nonconforming, together with Ritta Redd, a friend with whom Curtis sometimes collaborated. Typical for Neel, the personalities of her sitters are evident in this painting. Notably, Curtis takes center stage in the image, leaning in front of and casting a shadow over Redd. Neel once commented that when \u201cportraits are good art they reflect the culture, the time and many other things.\u201d",
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"citation": "Neel, Alice, and Jeremy Lewison. Alice Neel: Painted Truths. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2010.",
"page_number": "pp. 154-155, cat. 24",
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"citation": "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"
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"citation": "Mann, C. Griffith. \u201cAcquisitions 2009.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 50, no. 2 (March/April 2010): 12-27.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 11-12",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2010-02/page/n11/mode/2up"
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"citation": "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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},
{
"citation": "\"Culture Watch: Exhibitions.\" Women in the Arts 34, n. 3 (Fall 2016): 4-5.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 5",
"url": ""
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"citation": "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"
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"citation": "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"
},
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"citation": "Neel, Alice, and Angela Lampe. Alice Neel: un regard engage\u0301. 2020, 87, 107.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 87; reproduced: p. 87, ill. 3 and p. 107.",
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"citation": "Neel, Alice, Angela Lampe, Jeremy Lewison, Larne Abse Gogarty, E. Lebovici, Nathalie Ernoult, and Alice Neel. Alice Neel: An Engaged Eye. Woodbridge, Suffolk, England : ACC Art Books, in agreement with E\u0301ditions du Centre Pompidou, 2021.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 106-107",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Pigeat, Anae\u0308l. Alice Neel: Les Emotions (Gladwyne, 1900-New York, 1984). Paris : Flammarion, 2022, 85.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 85",
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},
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"citation": "\"Alice Neel: People Come First.\" American Art Review 34, no.1 (Spring 2022): 138-141, 144.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 140",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Betard, Daphne. \"Retrospective Centre Pompidou: La Comedie Humaine d'Alice Neel.\" Beaux Arts Magazine 461 (November 2022): 110-117.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 116-117",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Als, Hilton, Alex Fialho, Evan Garza, and Wayne Koestenbaum. At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2024.",
"page_number": "Reproduced p. 57, 58-59",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Haus der Kunst Mu\u0308nchen, Haus der Kunst Mu\u0308nchen Ausstellungsleitung, and Whitney Museum of American Art. 1981. Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980: [Ausstellung], Haus Der Kunst, Mu\u0308nchen, 14. November 1981 Bis 31. Januar 1982. Ausstellungsleitung Haus der Kunst Mu\u0308nchen: Prestel-Verlag, Mu\u0308nchen, 1981.",
"page_number": "Reproduced p. 158.",
"url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/8929908"
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