Alice Neel was an American painter known for her Expressionistic portraits of her friends, family, and lovers. Her dynamic use of color and line captured the interior emotional life of her sitters, ...
Alice Neel (American,1900-1984), Stephen Schaefer, 1977, oil on canvas, 46 x 30 inches, Bates College Museum of Art, gift of Hartley S. Neel and Richard Neel, 1997.15.1 I first saw this portrait of ...