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Alice Neel: Painted Truths (Part of An American Season)

Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

March 21-June 13, 2010

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Encounter five exhibitions by four intriguing artists during "An American Season" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The work of Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Alice Neel, and Charles M. Russell comes together in a uniquely American gathering of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and more. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) presents the exhibition Alice Neel: Painted Truths (Part of An American Season), on view March 21 - June 13, 2010 at the Caroline Wiess Law Building. 

One of the great American painters of the 20th century, Alice Neel (1900-1984) is best known for her psychologically acute portraits. Intimate, casual, direct and personal, satirical at times, they chronicle the social and economic diversity of mid-20th-century American life. Having consciously set out to chronicle the zeitgeist of her time, Neel painted friends and family, as well as the celebrated artists and writers of her day, such as Andy Warhol, Frank O´Hara, and Meyer Shapiro.

Alice Neel: Painted Truths both traces the evolution of Neel´s style and examines themes that she revisited throughout her career, including her social and political commitment, her stylistic evolution, and her reversal of the typical artist/model gender roles, maternity, and old age.

The accompanying catalogue, fully illustrated and featuring insightful commentary from four leading art historians, is published by the MFAH and distributed by Yale University Press.

Pictured:  Alice Neel, Hartley, 1966, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. © Estate of Alice Neel.

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    Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

    1001 Bissonnet Street
    Houston, Tx 77005

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    $7.00 adults
    $3.50 seniors/children 5-18

    Free admission on Thursdays.

    Children (18 and under) with a Houston Public Library PowerCard or any Public Library card receive free general admission on Saturday and Sunday.

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    March 21-June 13, 2010

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    Tues, Wed 10am-5pm
    Thurs 10am-9pm
    Fri, Sat 10am-7pm
    Sun 12:15pm–7pm

    Closed Monday, except Monday holidays.

    Closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

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