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Alice Neel (1900-1984) 
Aliases: Alice Hartley Neel
Professions: Painter; Printer
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Alice Neel (1900-1984)
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Vera Beckerhoff
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Portrait (Roberta Johnson Roensch)
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Alice Neel (1901-1984)
Biography: Neel
(b Merion Square, PA, 28 Jan 1900; d New York, 13 Oct 1984). American painter and printmaker. She graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women in 1925 and settled in New York with her husband, the Cuban artist Carlos Enríquez. After the death of their first daughter from diphtheria and the break-up of the marriage, Neel suffered a nervous breakdown, and her career was not fully launched until the 1930s. She was supported by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) (see UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, §XII) in 1933 and from 1935 until the early 1940s by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), but there was little critical or financial support for her work until the 1960s. Although she never remarried, she had two sons by different fathers; she often painted them and, eventually, their wives and children.
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