Contemporary Art

Moving Image Incorporated (2007)

The Foundation funded “Alice Neel,” a documentary film, by Andrew Neel on the life and work of American portrait painter, Alice Neel. “Part of the narration is chronological, part consists of interviews with friends, other artists, scholars, and family members, particularly two sons, Richard and Hartley, who are none too sanguine about their childhood and their mother’s Bohemian life, and the filmmaker himself, a grandson whose querulous voice is heard from time to time. The film also includes footage of Neel, later in life, painting, talking, appearing on television, and giving lectures. Throughout the film, the audience sees her paintings, bold, frank, and direct. After years of poverty and obscurity, fame comes as she nears 70.”