Artist field note

Alice Neel

Portraiture as social history.

Appears inThe Overlooked
Linda Nochlin and Daisy by Alice Neel
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Linda Nochlin and Daisy

1973

The art historian and her daughter share a couch. Intellect, motherhood and intimacy occupy one portrait.

The five in one idea

Neel used portraiture to record people the official picture of American life often left out.