ALICE NEEL

18 January 1900, Gladwyne, USA

13 October 1984, New York, USA

She graduated from Philadelphia School of Design in 1925.

One year before she met the Cuban painter Carlos Enriquez and they married.

Then they moved to Havana, in Cuba and they both exhibited in the XII Salon des Bellas Artes.

10 years later they divorced and she moved to the Spanish Harlem and began painting her neighbours.

She lived with the communist intellectual Sam Brody and her second son was born in 1941.

The American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters elected her in 1976. Also in 1979 she was awarded by the President Jimmy Carter.

Linda Nochlin and Daisy

Richard Gibbas, 1968

"Bather with red hat"

The Family John Gruen, Jane Wilson and Julia, 1970

José Santiago Negron

 "Girl with a cat"

Cindy and Chuck, 1975

Young woman, 1946

The Spanish family, 1943

Mother and child, 1962

George Arce, 1952

"Relief cut", 1950, ink on paper

My mother, 1946

Alice Neel and his husband Carlos Enriquez