Alice Neel, uptown
By: Hilton Als
Contributors: Neel, Alice, 1900-1984; Lewison, Jeremy, writer of supplementary textual content; David Zwirner (Gallery); Victoria Miro Gallery
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781941701607; 9780993442032
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Portraits; Portrait painters; Women artists; Exhibitions; Biography
Description: Alice Neel, Uptown' explores Neel's interest in the extraordinary diversity of twentieth century New York City and the people amongst whom she lived. The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely-published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School in Harlem. Other figures include neighbors and acquaintances, such as a ballet dancer; a young art student; a taxi driver; a traveling businessman; a local boy (Georgie Arce) who ran errands for Neel and who sat for her on several occasions; and other children and their families.
Notes: Catalog for exhibitions held at David Zwirner in New York on February 23-April 22, 2017 and Victoria Miro in London on May 18-July 29, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (page 9).
Table of contents: title: The Other New York  -- Jeremy Lewison; title: Introduction ;; title: Julie and the Doll ;; title: Building in Harlem ;; title: Georgie Arce ;; title: Alice Childress ;; title: Harold Cruse ;; title: Two Girls ;; title: Call Me Joe ;; title: Pregnant Maria ;; title: Ron Kajiwara ;; title: Carmen and Judy ;; title: Benjamin ;; title: Stephen Shepard  -- Hilton Als; title: List of Works --; title: Acknowledgments.